Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community

To learn more about US helping US, People Into Living, and the DENIM project, please visit https://www.ushelpingus.org/

Learn more about the CBOs in this episode below, and stay connected with NASTAD to learn more about future CBO summits.

• Delaware HIV Consortium- https://www.delawarehiv.org/
• Urban League of Hampton Roads- https://ulhr.org/
• Legacy Community Health- https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/
• Positive Health Impact Centers- https://www.positiveimpacthealthcenters.org/

To learn more about LivWell Community Health Services, click here: https://livwellchs.org/

To learn more about Destination Tomorrow, click here: https//destinationtomorrow.org.

In this episode, recorded on World AIDS Day, co-hosts Justin and Shanice are joined by Leisha McKinley-Beach, Founder and CEO of the Black Public Health Academy. Now, on the brink of retirement, McKinley-Beach discusses her lifelong commitment to ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S., and her new venture that aims to forge intergenerational partnerships that cultivate opportunities for other passionate activists and advocates to hold the torch and lead the fight. This episode’s Southern Charm goes out to SisterLove, an organization, founded in 1989, as a volunteer group of women interested in educating Atlanta and especially communities of women about HIV prevention, self-help, and safer sex techniques.

To learn more about Breaking Ground, visit https://smyal.org/breaking-ground/

To learn more about SMYAL, visit https://smyal.org/

Learn more about Let's BEEHIVE and their programs here: https://www.letsbeehive.org/

Check out the webinar series here: https://nastad.org/resources/black-women-researchers-and-prep-webinar-series

Learn more about the Normal Anomaly and their programs here: https://www.normalanomaly.org/

Learn more about the TRUTH Project at https://www.truthprojecthtx.org/

View the Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit: Addressing Trauma and Supporting Healing within the HIV Care Delivery System here.

Highlighted on this episode's Southern Charm segment is Breaking Ground, a unique program that utilizes the theatre and performing arts to detail the lives, challenges and journeys of LGBTQIA + of color in the DC Metro area. They explore in-depth issues such as HIV/AIDS, sexuality, racism, transphobia, abuse, mental health, and substance abuse. Participants then courageously develop a musical theatre production addressing these topics that directly reflect their experiences.

This episodes Southern Charm features the Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition. GHRC’s, formerly AHRC, mission expresses that they engage directly with grassroots advocacy, research, and direct services to those made vulnerable by drug use, sex work, overdose, gender, STIs, HIV, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases. To learn more about their work and how to support visit. www.georgiaharmreduction.org.