Members of the California Statewide HIV and Aging Educational Initiative team at the Statewide Skill-BuIlding Symposium

In honor of HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day, the California Statewide HIV and Aging Educational Initiative in partnership with Santa Clara County Getting to Zero hosted the Statewide Skill-Building Symposium: Addressing Mental Health among Older Adults with HIV on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM PT at the Orchard City Banquet Hall in Campbell, CA. This one-day, in-person symposium aimed to help equip California service providers and frontline staff to better address the mental health needs of older adults with HIV, including the unique needs of long-term survivors.

During the symposium, leading experts offered engaging, interactive presentations on the intersection of mental health and loneliness & isolation, physical & cognitive decline, substance use, and other key issues impacting older adults with HIV. View the agenda with recorded presentations linked for each presentation below. You can also view the complete set of recorded presentations in our Statewide Skill-Building Symposium YouTube Playlist.

8:30-9:00 AM Check-In and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

California Statewide HIV and Aging Educational Initiative and Santa Clara County Getting to Zero

9:15-9:25 AM Update from the Office of AIDS: HIV, Aging, and Mental Health

Philip Peters, MD, Medical Officer, Office of AIDS, California Department of Public Health

9:25-10:10 Keynote Address — Four A’s of Caring for Our Elder HIV Community: Ask, Acknowledge, Advocate, and Amplify

William Hua, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Executive Director, Alliance Health Project, UCSF

10:10-10:20 AM Break
10:20-11:50 AM Take Action on Loneliness and Isolation

11:50 AM-12:50 PM Lunch
12:50-2:20 PM Take Action on Physical and Cognitive Decline

2:20-2:30 PM Break
2:30-4:00 PM Take Action on Taboo Topics: Sexual Health and Substance Use

4:00-4:20 PM Local Reflections and Call to Action

Harsha Ramchandani, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Bay Area Community Health (BACH)

4:20-4:30 PM Closing Remarks
California Statewide HIV and Aging Educational Initiative

The California Statewide HIV and Aging Educational Initiative is a collaborative capacity-building initiative led by CHIPTS, APLA Health, the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC)—LA and BANCC, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. If you have any questions, please contact Elena Rosenberg-Carlson at erosenberg-carlson@mednet.ucla.edu.