Prevention (education and outreach) and Community Development Tracking Tool Definitions

• addiction services

• harm reduction services

• HIV clinical care
• PEP and PrEP

• health care facility / hospital
• health care professional (non-HIV)
• Hep C testing / clinical care

• community mental health agency
• counselling service 

• HIV testing
• STI testing / sexual health clinic 

Community-based HIV service providers

• other AIDS service organization or HIV program providers

• community food bank
• continuing education
• day programs (seniors, brain injury)
• employment support
• faith-based organization
• housing provider
• legal aid / legal service agency
• online resources
• population specific services
• public health
• settlement agency
• smoking cessation program
• social services (incl. EI, OW, ODSP)

• domestic violence
• physical violence (robbed, mugged)
• sexual abuse
• child abuse
• emotional abuse
• unsafe living condition
• self-harm

Income and Benefits

• debt
• delay in application process
• lack of income
• money management / budgeting
• need to apply for benefit
• poverty

Living with HIV

• access to medications
• adherence to medication
• symptoms management
• connection to HIV care
• disclosure
• stigma / discrimination
• POZ prevention

For updates:

• new symptoms / side effects
• progressed to AIDS defining illness

Education and Employment

• need high school equivalency (GED)
• need foreign credentials recognized
• language barrier (ESL)
• need to upgrade
• recent job loss
• skill development / training needed
• unemployment
• work related stress

Housing

• risk of homelessness
• homelessness
• difficulties paying rent
• supportive housing required
• accessible housing required
• appropriate housing unit required

• relationships
• family issues
• isolation
• discrimination
• sexual orientation / gender identify
• grief / loss

Food Security

• difficulty affording enough to eat
• difficulty meeting dietary requirements
• difficulty having access to healthy food choices
• require food / life skills
• difficulty accessing culturally appropriate food
• difficulty accessing food stores

Legal issues

• arrest
• detention
• charge
• conviction
• incarceration
• on bail
• probation / parole

For updates:

• charges dropped
• released

Immigration Issues

• sponsorship issues
• removal / deportation
• settlement issues
• refugee claim in progress
• no status

Well-being

• access to health care
• alcohol / substance use
• client disclosed injecting or inhaling substances
• physical health
• smoking
• emotional / mental health
• personal care
• Risk of HIV/STIs (Note: this is a stand alone presenting issue)

• sitting on advisory committees/boards for external/other agencies

• regular, ongoing meetings of a community coalition or network

• to help plan an event with coalition/network/working group partners, etc.

• to jointly develop materials with coalition/network/working group partners, etc.

• to share information with other service providers

• to provide specific assistance to an agency to improve their services

• to build new partnerships/relationships with other agencies

• to assist an agency to revise existing/develop new policies

• to work with municipal, provincial, federal policy makers to revise existing/develop new policies

• to assist an agency with their strategic planning and/or strengthen your own agency’s strategic planning process