Catholics for a Free Choice's Skills Building Workshop

For those of you attending the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, please find the invitation for Catholics for a Free Choice's Skills Building Workshop below.

"Good Catholics Use Condoms: How to Answer the Tough Questions Surrounding HIV/AIDS" is designed for activists, advocates and leaders who want to develop and practice better religious and culturally sensitive messages on HIV/AIDS prevention. We hope you will join us.

WORKSHOP: Good Catholics Use Condoms: How to Answer the Tough Questions Surrounding HIV/AIDS
Date: Wednesday, 16 August 2006
Time: 2:15 to 5:45 pm
Venue: Skills Building Room 6

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About the workshop
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Catholics for a Free Choice's Frances Kissling and Jon O'Brien and other special guests will lead a series of activities and interactive discussions on some of the hottest topics in HIV/AIDS prevention today, including:

• The "ABC" method of prevention
• "Abstinence Only" programs
• Religious and faith-based beliefs about condoms
• Working with people of various faith traditions on preventing HIV/AIDS
• The sexual rights and responsibilities of people living with HIV/AIDS
• Stigma

This capacity-building workshop will educate and empower participants to speak confidently and effectively about religious and faith-based support for comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. Through hands-on activities and expert facilitation, participants improve their abilities to connect with an audience, prepare effectively, lead a debate, ask and answer difficult questions, and anticipate and counter personal attacks, all in a religiously and culturally sensitive manner.

Participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of how people of faith feel about condom-use as part of a larger prevention strategy and how to work confidently with these communities as an advocate for an all-inclusive approach to prevention.

For more information about this session, call +1 202 986 6093 x229 or email: mringuette@catholicsforchoice.org