What is TEAM?

TEAM (Treatment Education Advocacy Management) is a rubric of several programs that provide peer-led education in HIV treatment and prevention and seeks to promote wellness and health outcomes in different modalities and for different targeted populations.

The TEAM core training is an 18 hour secondary prevention education training that teaches all about HIV in a class room setting both here at TPAN and off site. The approach consists of providing extensive treatment and prevention education, training and support for HIV-positive clients and individuals impacted by HIV and those at high risk. TEAM focuses on successful management of HIV disease, through early diagnosis and secondary prevention and advocacy. All clients intaked at TPAN are offered the TEAM core training. In the past 3 years over 300 people have gone through the training.

After TEAM participants go through the 18 hour training they can gain continuing education through Committed to Living offered once a month where invited guest speakers bring new and cutting edge HIV treatment and psychosocial information in an interactive forum.

TEAM Action is another continuing education program that provides the basics of public speaking for TEAM members for TPAN’s speaker’s bureau.

Mobile TEAM is a new program under development that will provide peer-led education in HIV transmission, risk and treatment. In conjunction with the Westside Health Authority in the Austin community the program is a pilot project aimed at enlightening communities at high risk about HIV, and seeks to teach people in the community about how and where to receive ongoing HIV testing, services and care. The project will also build capacity in the Austin area for future HIV services and education.

PEERSpeak is also a new program under development in collaboration with AFC to bring HIV information to the internet through interactive web modules.

As of April 2007 TEAM programs are funded by the Pfizer Foundation and Illinois Department of Public Health. Foundation funding is from United Way Venture Capital Fund, Polk Bros. Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd Fry Foundation, National Library of Medicine and the MAC AIDS Fund. 

Reserve your spot! The 2008 TEAM training sessions are:

Contact Derek (d.worley@tpan.com) or Louis (l.spraggins@tpan.com) at (773)989-9400 for information and to see if you qualify for registration. A limited number of spaces are available

TEAM Overview

• Introduction to the Immune System
  
• HIV Disease Pathogenesis
  
• HIV Life Cycle
  
• Opportunistic Infections
  
• Current Antiretroviral Therapy
  
• STDs and Prevention
  
• Hep C and HIV Co-infection
  
• Treatment Guidelines: Starting, Stopping and Changing Therapy
  

• Clinical Trials
  
• Adherence
  
• Managing Side Effects
  
• Prevention
  
• Advocacy
  
• Accessing Resources
  

• Eight sessions tailored to each participant's needs