Expanding The Continuum

Join Ashley in conversation with national HIV advocate and leader Evany Turk to discussing the intersections of mental health, IPV, and HIV for Black women.

Hear from activist Ashley Cobb on strategies for ensuring our work with survivors of domestic and sexual violence is sex positive and healing! Follow Ashley on social media at @sexwithashley.

Welcome to Season Four of Expanding The Continuum!

Join us for a special conversation for Sexual Assault Awareness Month to learn about how sexual violence advocates are offering health and harm reduction strategies for survivors, including PrEP and emergency contraception.

Check out a new resource from Futures Without Violence, The American College of Emergency Contraception, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Emergency Contraception: A Guide for Advocates: https://ipvhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ASEC-DV-SV-Factsheet_Apr-2024.pdf

Hear from Jennifer Peña, MD, FACP at Q Care Plus about ways in which innovative telehealth strategies can make it easier for survivors to access PrEP and get HIV care. Ashley talks with Dr. Peña about privacy, safety, increasing access and more!

Learn more about Dr. Peña s work here: https://qcareplus.com/creating-medical-belonging-for-hispanic-latinx-communities/

Our hosts Ashley Slye and Surabhi Kukke round out Expanding the Continuum season two with highlights and new questions.

Hear from the amazing Olivia Ford & Ciarra “Ci Ci” Covin at The Well Project who are leading efforts to ensure that birthing people can breast or chest feed their infants regardless of their HIV status.

Join us for another conversation with Dr. Oni Blackstock and Victoria Graves-Cade on aging, HIV, and health equity.

Learn from domestic violence advocates Caely Flynn and Evan Jones from Sojourner House about how to integrate HIV testing and other sexual health strategies into anti-violence programs!

For a more in-depth overview of Sojourner House's HIV program, visit: https://nnedv.org/resources-library/interview-sojourner-house/

**Special Live Episode!**

This episode was a live conversation recorded on March 30th, 2023!

Kneeshe Parkinson (She/Her), Consultant, Activist, Navigator, KneesheSpeaksSTL

Ashley Slye (She/Her), Deputy Director, Positively Safe & Domestic Violence Counts, National Network to End Domestic Violence

Dr. LaShonda Spencer, MD (She/Her), Professor of Pediatrics/ Internal Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

For more information: https://healthpartnersipve.org/learning-opp/health-justice-in-practice-supporting-survivors-of-intimate-partner-violence-and-exploitation-who-are-living-with-hiv-in-community-health-centers/

Kicking off season three strong with an interview with Gabriela Zapata-Alma from the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health. Gabriela has worked in anti-violence and substance use for over 15 years and joins us for a powerful follow up conversation about harm reduction. http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org