Services and Expertise

The FXB Center provides a wide range of services focused on improving the health of vulnerable women, children, youth, and families and building capacity in the communities and systems that serve them.  Our dedicated multidisciplinary staff of more than 400 includes physicians, nurses, educators, social workers and case workers, public health professionals, nutritionists, and administrators. The Center offers expertise in the care of women, men, young people and children living with HIV infection; HIV prevention—with a focus on youth and prevention of perinatal HIV transmission; the healthcare needs of vulnerable, at-risk children—with a focus on those in the child welfare system; capacity building for organizations, institutions and healthcare providers; and the national resource center model of training and technical assistance.

As a leader in the development of sustainable programs locally, nationally, and globally, FXB provides expert services in the following areas:

• Clinical HIV services
  The FXB Center clinic meets the healthcare and social service needs of more than 400 families with HIV through the provision of multidisciplinary, comprehensive HIV services. 
  
• Child welfare nursing
  supports the welfare goals of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) / Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) by orienting, educating and supporting nurses to provide Health Care Case Management (HCCM) to children and families.
• Education and training for healthcare professionals
  assists healthcare professionals, through education and training, to provide optimum quality services and sensitive care to HIV positive persons, and to provide access to resources and timely, high-quality, state-of-the-art clinical information locally, nationally and globally.
  • Preceptorships
• Technical assistance and capacity building, including project management and strategic planning
• The National Resource Center Model of training and technical assistance
  

Building capacity and strengthening systems through strategic partnerships and collaboration, education, sharing of best practices, and providing resources.

• AIDS Education and Training Center National Resource Center
• National Organization for Perinatal HIV Prevention, including sexual and reproductive health
• National Resource Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Adolescents (Resource Center)
• HIV Medical Homes Resource Center (HIV-MHRC)
• Sexual and reproductive health, including preconception care, family planning and safer conception
• Team facilitation
• Patient-centered medical home development and certification
• Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (EMCT) in the U.S.
• Global health services
• Quality improvement
• Evaluation and Research

 

Features

HIV and Preconception
Care Toolkit

Guidelines for Use of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Pregnancy

What Woman Need to Know: The HIV Treatment Guidelines for Pregnant Women