Marvin Thompson's, advocate, presentation at the Sex in the City II: Men, Sex, Love and HIV conference, held in Chicago on September 25, 2014. Sponsored by AIDS Foundation of Chicago and other partners.

1. Marvin K. Thompson, M.S. Sex in the City II September 25, 2014

2. AGENDA
•Clients vs. Providers
•Working with Young African American, Men who have Sex with Men (YAAMSM)
•How to approach/reach YAAMSM
•Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)

3. QUESTION #1
How many of you have been both a client and a provider?

4. CLIENTS VS. PROVIDERS (IN A PERFECT WORLD)
Client
Provider
•Seek service from facility
•Happy to be there to provide the service
•Has questions and seeks to understand
•Makes sure that all questions are answered and if they’re unsure finds out
•Leaves happy
•Did a great job, appeased the client, met the scope.

5. CLIENTS VS. PROVIDER (THE REALITY)
Clients
Providers
•Seek service from facility
•Worried about meeting scopes
•Has questions and seeks to understand
•Half way answers questions pushes baseline
•Leaves unhappy and not wanting to come back.
•Get baseline completed, doesn’t follow-up until it time for the next 3 or 6 month survey.

6. QUESTION #2
What can we do to change this outcome?

7. WORKING WITH YAAMSM
•Challenges
•Successes
•Best Practices

8. HOW TO APPROACH/REACH YAAMSM
•Be Sincere/Genuine
•Meet them where they are (don’t be condescending)
• Allow yourself to get to know them (at the clients pace)
•Build professional relationships (known to increase retention rates)
•Treat them as if you wanted to be treated

9. CULTURAL COMPETENCY
•To provide a reminder for providers on culturally competent service delivery, D’Andrea & Davis (2001) suggests the RESPECTFUL model.
•RESPECTFUL is an acronym that provides a framework for practitioner’s to increase knowledge about individuals and groups
•R = Religious/Spiritual Identity
•E = Ethnic Identity
•S = Sexual Identity
•P = Psychological maturity
•E = Economic class standing
•C = Chronological challenges (Life history)
•T = Threat’s to ones well-being
•F = Family history
•U = Unique physical challenges
•L = Location of residence
Source: D'Andrea, M., & Daniels, J. (2001). RESPECTFUL counseling: An integrative model for counselors. In D.Pope-Davis & H.Coleman (Eds.), The interface of class, culture and gender in counseling (pp. 417–466). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

10. PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS ( )

11. QUESTION(S)
Email: marvink.thompson88@gmail.com