HIV Test Counselors
Become a volunteer HIV Test Counselor!
The Student Wellness Center offers anonymous and confidential HIV Antibody Counseling and Testing to all OSU students for free. The trained, volunteer HIV Test Counselors do not simply administer the test. Their responsibilities include helping students who are concerned about HIV transmission to:
- improve their perception of risk
- identify their risk behaviors
- negotiate a reasonable and realistic plan to help reduce risk
- support the client in making a decision about testing and preparing for the result
- help the client who tests to begin to integrate the result emotionally, behaviorally, and socially.
Training & Time Commitment: Each HIV Test Counselor is required to attend a two-day training only offered the beginning of fall quarter. The 2011 training is scheduled for Friday, 21 October and Saturday, 22 October. In addition, HIV Test Counselors are encouraged to volunteer to do counseling and testing at least two (2) hours per week. Counselors are also required to attend a quarterly meeting held the last day of classes each quarter.
Qualities of a good HIV Test Counselor: good listener, open-minded, non-judgmental, sensitive, patient, friendly, and reliable
OPEN APPLICATIONS for Winter 2012: Due to a grant the SWC and Multicultural Center (MCC) were awarded, we are launching a 2nd HIV testing site on campus in the MCC (located in the Ohio Union). We are looking for HIV test counselors for the MCC site, which offers testing on Tuesdays from 5-9 p.m. If you're interested in applying to be a test counselor for the MCC site, please complete the above application and submit it to Bianca Guynn at guynn.2@osu.edu.
Applications for the MCC testing site training are now available (see above attachment). All applicants will be interviewed in late Winter quarter and a select few will be invited to the training. The entire training is mandatory and is scheduled for Wednesday/Thursday/Friday, 28-30 March from 5-9 p.m.