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- Health Navigator, DUHP - Part-Time Cambridge, MA ( - Prevention Job Type Part-time Description Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Health Navigator will provide counseling and supported referrals for PWIDs who are at high-risk of infection or are HIV/HCV/STI positive, while delivering harm reduction services in a drop-in setting.
- This includes: providing prevention and screening services to clients who use drugs, syringe exchange, HIV/HCV/STI testing, PrEP and HCV referrals and linkage to care, overdose prevention training, emergency response and overdose response, conflict de-escalation, motivational interviewing, crisis counseling, data collection and individual and group-level interventions aimed to reduce infectious disease transmission and increase access to care and treatment.
- Representative Duties: Provide accessible and low threshold services to PWID that operate within the harm reduction framework.
- Provide pre- and post-test counseling to those seeking HIV/STI/HCV screening/treatment and viral hepatitis education, screening or vaccination.
- Assist PWIDs with adhering to prescribed HCV treatment medications and host adherence support groups and peer support/skill share groups Conduct risk assessments and risk reduction plans.
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