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It’s All About M.E.E.! seeks to provide the most challenging and rewarding learning experience possible for all attendees and presenters. You can help shape the conference content by submitting a proposal for a workshop. We are looking for a variety of turn-key workshop formats including roundtable discussions, panels, interactive presentations, individual lectures and group exercises.

Topics

We are interested in a wide array of HIV/AIDS and closely related topics affecting Black women across our three strategic areas: mobilization, education and empowerment. We are particularly interested in sessions that combine a programmatic focus on a HIV/AIDS or related health issue with operational or strategic approaches such as:

• Effective strategies for working with different community partners: schools, faith-based organizations, businesses, government and other community-based organizations
• Developing effective prevention messages for Black women
• Leadership development
• Evaluation strategies that work at the local level such as empowerment or participatory evaluation
• Replication of models that work
• Expanding utilization of HIV treatment services by Black women
• Increasing HIV testing among Black women
• Crossing stakeholder lines among women organizations to address social determinants of health (e.g., work with organizations focused on economic development, education or civic engagement)
• Building community coalitions and partnerships
• Community-driven efforts to change public policies
• Effective prevention campaigns
• How to develop social marketing campaigns that mobilize Black women
• Community-based participatory research Sample Topics

• How HIV relates to our relationships and health
• Stopping HIV/AIDS one community at a time
• Feeding our minds, body and soul
• Developing an effective HIV/AIDS prevention strategy for Black women
• Increasing utilization of HIV/AIDS treatment by Black women
• Designing and implementing effective HIV/AIDS programs for Black women organizations
• Creating a mass Black HIV/AIDS mobilization across all sectors in the Black community

Policy Guidelines

The conference planning committee is interested in providing a maximum of diversity in workshop subjects, form and structure. Individuals, groups as well as organizations are invited to sponsor or facilitate a workshop. Preference will be given to turn-key workshops that focus on mobilization, personal responsibility, personal power and taking action. Workshops that address practical and theoretical issues from Black female perspectives are preferred.

To the extent possible, workshops should seek to include practitioners, community leaders, academics, activists and individuals infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. We encourage interactive workshops were appropriate. We encourage you to design a learning experience that goes beyond the standard lecture format.

Your proposal should reflect the conference goals: to mobilize, educate and empower Black women to take action against HIV/AIDS. We will evaluate proposals based on how well a proposed workshop would allow participants to address cutting-edge issues facing HIV/AIDS in the Black community today.

You may submit more than one workshop proposal, but each proposal must be prepared and submitted separately.

The conference planning committee is excited to offer discounted room rates for all workshop presenters. However, please note that no compensation or honoraria will be provided. All workshop presenters will be responsible for their own air, hotel arrangements and ground transportation.