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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Ann LGBTQ Public Popul Health. 2020;1(1):6–26. doi: 10.1891/lgbtq.2019-0003

TABLE 3.

Siempre Seguiré Intervention Session Content

Session Goals Take-Home Activity

1. Orientation to the Group and Discussion about Discrimination and Group Members’ Intersecting Identities • Orient group members to group/ground rules
• Build group cohesion
• Provide psychoeducation about systems of oppressions
• Discuss how discrimination affects group members’ lives
• Describe most important identities
Tracking Discrimination: Describe any discrimination experiences from ethnicity, immigration status, sexual orientation, and/or HIV-serostatus
2. Discussion of Multiple Identities and Coping with Discrimination • Discuss men’s experiences living with multiple stigmatized identities
• Evaluate specific instances of coping as effective or ineffective based on their own values/goals
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week and add tracking of coping responses
3. Introduction to Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination I • Introduce group members to the CBT model
• Discuss how to apply CBT model (and chain analysis) to discrimination
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week
4. Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination II • Gain further knowledge and experience on understanding discrimination experiences
• Define and identify critical links, and vulnerability and resilience factors
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, and add identification of vulnerability and resilience factors
5. Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination III • Identify barriers to effectively coping with discrimination experiences (e.g., internalized stigma and power differentials with perpetrators, such as law enforcement)
• Brainstorm and learn strategies for addressing those barriers
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, with encouragement to use different coping strategies to broaden repertoire
6. Investigating Medical Mistrust • Orient group members to mistrust as an expectable consequence of discrimination that can affect healthcare engagement and health outcomes Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, focused specifically on the role of mistrust in experiences of and coping with discrimination
7. Getting the Social Support You Need • Describe support that group members have
• Strategize about how to get support for whole self, across identities
Tracking Discrimination: Same as Week 5
8. Addressing Structural Discrimination and Review • Discuss ways to take action and advocate for change through changing societal structures
• Review progress
Prepare for Graduation: same as Week 5 plus reflect on what was learned, what changes were made, and what will be remembered
9. Graduation • Describe how to practice after group ends N/A

Note. Sessions were conducted in Spanish. All sessions began and ended with a relaxation exercise, and except for Session 1, started with a review of the ground rules, a recap of the prior session, and a take-home activity review. Refreshments were served at the beginning of each session, and free-flowing discussions the communal meal helped to encourage group cohesion.