Session 1: Beginning the Journey
Session 1: Beginning the Journey
Checking In
How are you feeling today?
Session 1: Beginning the Journey
My Commitment to Me
Focus on my needs
Choose an issue in your life that you would like to work on. Try to think of a goals that you can set today that will help you along your road to health and wellness.
Take a moment to think about people you can reach out to for help. Consider resources available to you to help you reach your goal. For example, your local clinic can help you get medical care. A probation or parole officer might help you find resources. Your state may have a toll free information hotline you can call to find out more about the services in your community.
If you are completing WORTH in a group, your group facilitator can provide help in accessing the services you may need.
Session 1: Beginning the Journey
Summing It All Up
During today's session, "beginning the journey" you...
- Learned about the importance of regular testing. Remember, the only bad status is not knowing your status.
- Met your WORTH facilitators: Lucia and Carol.
- Met Rasheeda and Mia, two of the five women of WORTH.
- Learned the importance of regularly checking in on your feelings and how to use the WORTH feelings check in station.
- Learned the importance of setting goals as we take care of our health.
Great job again! We are so glad you joined us.
Session 2: Taking in the View
Session 2: Taking in the View
Checking In
How are you feeling today?
Session 2: Taking in the View
Checking In
How are you feeling today?
Session 2: Taking in the View
Goals: Reducing Risks
When you set goals to reduce the risks to your health you are putting yourself first! Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Buy a pack of condoms
- Increase my use of condoms
- Talk with my partner(s) about using condoms
- Reduce the number of partners I have
- Encourage my partner(s) to get tested for HIV and/or HCV
- Encourage my partner(s) to get treated for HIV, HCV, and/or other STIs
- Speak with a doctor to find out more about PrEP or PEP
- Make an appointment to see my HIV care provider
- Get treatment for an STI
- Take my HIV medication, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), as prescribed
- Get the medication I need to treat my STIs
- Not have sex after drinking or taking drugs
- Not share needles or unclean injection equipment with anyone
- Make the daily commitment to my recovery from alcohol and substance misuse
Session 2: Taking in the View
My Commitment to Me
Focus on my needs
Choose an issue in your life that you would like to work on. Try to think of a goals that you can set today that will help you along your road to health and wellness.
Take a moment to think about people you can reach out to for help. Consider resources available to you to help you reach your goal. For example, your local clinic can help you get medical care. A probation or parole officer might help you find resources. Your state may have a toll free information hotline you can call to find out more about the services in your community.
If you are completing WORTH in a group, your group facilitator can provide help in accessing the services you may need.
Session 2: Taking in the View
Summing It All Up
Here's what we covered during today's session, "Taking in the View":
- Factors that increase women's risk as a whole.
- The fact that some women (i.e. women in the justice system, women of color) are even more at risk.
- You met Amanda, Charlene and Sofia, the remaining women of WORTH.
- Myths and facts about HIV and STIs.
- How trauma hurts.
- Behaviors that protect us, and those that place us at risk.
Session 3: Planning for Safety
Session 3: Planning for Safety
My Goals
Take a few moments to think about how you are doing on your goals. Review the goals you set during the first two sessions. How are you doing? Take a moment to write down how you did and maybe what you're going to do next.
Session 3: Planning for Safety
My Support Map
Making a Map
Now you'll learn how to create a map of the people on your life who support you. First you'll learn how to label each person. Then you'll get out paper or your worksheet and draw your map. When you're finished, your map will look like the one here.
Session 3: Planning for Safety
Goals: Support
When you set goals to strengthen support you are reaching out to others and telling them that you value them. Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Tell a person on my map that I value them
- Talk to a new person this week to expand my network
- Do a fun thing with a positive person on my map
- Call a person on my social support map to catch up
Session 3: Planning for Safety
Checking In
How are you feeling today?
Session 3: Planning for Safety
Goals: Reducing Risks
When you set goals to reduce the risks to your health you are putting yourself first! Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Buy a pack of condoms
- Increase my use of condoms
- Talk with my partner(s) about using condoms
- Reduce the number of partners I have
- Encourage my partner(s) to get tested for HIV and/or HCV
- Encourage my partner(s) to get treated for HIV, HCV, and/or other STIs
- Speak with a doctor to find out more about PrEP or PEP
- Make an appointment to see my HIV care provider
- Get treatment for an STI
- Take my HIV medication, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), as prescribed
- Get the medication I need to treat my STIs
- Not have sex after drinking or taking drugs
- Not share needles or unclean injection equipment with anyone
- Make the daily commitment to my recovery from alcohol and substance misuse
Session 3: Planning for Safety
My Commitment to Me
Focus on my needs
Choose an issue in your life that you would like to work on. Try to think of a goals that you can set today that will help you along your road to health and wellness.
Take a moment to think about people you can reach out to for help. Consider resources available to you to help you reach your goal. For example, your local clinic can help you get medical care. A probation or parole officer might help you find resources. Your state may have a toll free information hotline you can call to find out more about the services in your community.
If you are completing WORTH in a group, your group facilitator can provide help in accessing the services you may need.
Session 3: Planning for Safety
Summing It All Up
During today's session, "Planning for Safety", you learned:
- All about POP, a technique that helps us solve any problem.
- The power of positive self-talk.
- The difference social support makes.
- Safe sex is great sex - using condoms and the WORTH Fantasy Menu.
Session 4: Staying Strong
Session 4: Staying Strong
My Goals
Take a few moments to think about how you are doing on your goals. Review the goals you set during the first three sessions. How are you doing? Take a moment to write down how you did and maybe what you're going to do next.
Session 4: Staying Strong
Writing Down My Safety Plan
Session 4: Staying Strong
Checking In
How are you feeling today?
Session 4: Staying Strong
My Support Map
Take a look at the map you made during Session 3. Are there any changes you want to make to your map?
Session 4: Staying Strong
Goals: Support
When you set goals to strengthen support you are reaching out to others and telling them that you value them. Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Tell a person on my map that I value them
- Talk to a new person this week to expand my network
- Do a fun thing with a positive person on my map
- Call a person on my social support map to catch up
Session 4: Staying Strong
Goals: Reducing Risks
When you set goals to reduce the risks to your health you are putting yourself first! Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Buy a pack of condoms
- Increase my use of condoms
- Talk with my partner(s) about using condoms
- Reduce the number of partners I have
- Encourage my partner(s) to get tested for HIV and/or HCV
- Encourage my partner(s) to get treated for HIV, HCV, and/or other STIs
- Speak with a doctor to find out more about PrEP or PEP
- Make an appointment to see my HIV care provider
- Get treatment for an STI
- Take my HIV medication, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), as prescribed
- Get the medication I need to treat my STIs
- Not have sex after drinking or taking drugs
- Not share needles or unclean injection equipment with anyone
- Make the daily commitment to my recovery from alcohol and substance misuse
Session 4: Staying Strong
My Commitment to Me
Focus on my needs
Choose an issue in your life that you would like to work on. Try to think of a goals that you can set today that will help you along your road to health and wellness.
Take a moment to think about people you can reach out to for help. Consider resources available to you to help you reach your goal. For example, your local clinic can help you get medical care. A probation or parole officer might help you find resources. Your state may have a toll free information hotline you can call to find out more about the services in your community.
If you are completing WORTH in a group, your group facilitator can provide help in accessing the services you may need.
Session 4: Staying Strong
Summing it All Up
This week we focused on "Staying strong and focused" and you learned all about:
- The importance of creating a safety plan.
- Techniques we can use to negotiate condom use.
- What to do when it is not safe to ask our partner to use condoms.
Session 5: Keeping it Going
Session 5: Keeping it Going
My Goals
Take a few moments to think about how you are doing on your goals. Review the goals you set during the first four sessions. How are you doing? Take a moment to write down how you did and maybe what you're going to do next.
Session 5: Keeping it Going
Goals: Reducing Risks
When you set goals to reduce the risks to your health you are putting yourself first! Get out your goals worksheet or a piece of paper, write down a goal, and write down a plan to make it happen. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Buy a pack of condoms
- Increase my use of condoms
- Talk with my partner(s) about using condoms
- Reduce the number of partners I have
- Encourage my partner(s) to get tested for HIV and/or HCV
- Encourage my partner(s) to get treated for HIV, HCV, and/or other STIs
- Speak with a doctor to find out more about PrEP or PEP
- Make an appointment to see my HIV care provider
- Get treatment for an STI
- Take my HIV medication, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), as prescribed
- Get the medication I need to treat my STIs
- Not have sex after drinking or taking drugs
- Not share needles or unclean injection equipment with anyone
- Make the daily commitment to my recovery from alcohol and substance misuse
Session 5: Keeping it Going
Message in a Bottle
We would also like you to share your experience in WORTH with someone you care about by writing a letter; we call it a "message in a bottle". Think about how you felt at the beginning of this journey and then consider what would you tell another person about how to protect herself. Now that you have developed this message, think about who you might share this with and how you might share it with them. If there is someone you know who really needs this information that might be a good place to begin.
Session 5: Keeping it Going
Summing it All Up
You completed the final session! Congratulations again! During today's final session, "Keeping the journey going: I am WORTH it!", you:
- Created a "message in a bottle" summarizing all you learned during WORTH. Consider passing this message along to friends and family.
Congratulations and thank you!
You are
it!
