Date: March 16, 2015

Overview: This webinar celebrated the success of PEPFAR-supported efforts to strengthen the social service workforce through assistance to partner governments and other stakeholders to better understand the workforce, make plans for a stronger workforce, train workers in the skills that they need to do their jobs well, and improve mechanisms for supervising and supporting the workforce to prevent burnout and enable workers to perform to the best of their ability. During the webinar, the achievements of PEPFAR/USAID were highlighted in three countries—Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe—with presenters from each describing interventions undertaken to date and the role of social service workers in supporting HIV-affected children and families and contributing to clinical outcomes and the goal of ending the AIDS epidemic.