Until We're Strong Enough to Stand: A Listening Session from New Jersey’s Community Health Workers

Join the teams from Togather and FIREWORX for the culminating Listening Session of Stories in Service, an initiative that uplifts the voices of New Jersey’s Community Health Workers (CHWs) on the frontlines of HIV care. Hosted in collaboration with the New Jersey HIV Community Support and Development Initiative, this virtual event takes place Wednesday, August 20, 12:00–1:30pm ET.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize how storytelling can strengthen HIV prevention and care by fostering healing, reflection, and advocacy among CHWs and the communities most impacted by HIV.

• Explore the value of lived experience as a form of expertise in reducing stigma, encouraging HIV testing, and promoting biomedical prevention and treatment adherence efforts.

• Develop skills in crafting and sharing narratives that highlight resilience, challenge, and transformation in the context of HIV diagnosis and care journeys.

• Identify how narrative practices can support mental well-being, build trust, and encourage community-wide engagement in HIV services.

• Strengthen bonds among CHWs and HIV service providers by sharing stories that deepen empathy, solidarity, and collective commitment to ending the HIV epidemic.

This event is open to HIV service providers, community-based organizations, public health affiliates, friends, family, and community members. Register now to access the Zoom information!