>> Hello, my name is Jasmine Munaya-Hunka [assumed spelling] and I am a Program Consultant
on the Partnerships Team within the Capacity Building Branch .
On behalf of Maria E. Alvarez, Partnerships Team Lead,
I review our flagship PS141403 program capacity building assistance,
CBA, for high impact HIV prevention.
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In this brief presentation I will provide you with a brief overview
of what is capacity building assistance or CBA, types of CBA services,
the structure of our CBA program, and delivery strategies.
And I will wrap up with how to request CBA for your PS151502 application
or any other of your organizational needs.
The Capacity Building Branch es or CBB's mission is shown here and it is
to improve the performance of high, of HIV prevention workforce
by increasing the knowledge, skills, technology, and infrastructure necessary
to implement a sustained, science-based,
culturally appropriate HIV prevention, interventions, and strategies.
The new PS141403 funding reflects CBB's mission and focuses
on high impact HIV prevention framework.
The Capacity Building Branch funds 21 national organizations that deliver services
that will build the capacity of HIV prevention programs in health departments, HD's,
community based organizations, CBO's, and health care organizations.
HCO's. The 21 national organizations are known as CBA providers and they are funded to work
with one of the four target audiences, in essence, health departments, CBO's,
health care organizations, and other CBA providers.
Two of our CBA providers are funded to support more
than one audience for a total of 23 CBA programs.
More specifically, our portfolio includes eight CBA providers for health departments,
11 CBA providers for CBO's, three CBA providers for health care organizations,
and one CBA provider for the resource center which provides support
to the CBA provider network as a whole.
PS141403 began on April 1st, 2014.
This new program aims to strengthen the capacity of the HIV prevention workforce
to optimally plan, implement, and sustain high impact HIV prevention, interventions,
and strategies within health departments, CBO's and healthcare organizations.
Ultimately the intent is to reduce HIV infections and related morbidity, mortality,
and health disparities in the United States and its territories.
Our CBA services emphasize high impact HIV prevention or HIP, and supporting activities:
behavioral, biomedical and structural interventions and strategies,
expanded HIV testing, prevention with positives, and prevention with high risk negatives.
Also content areas are inclusive of cost effectiveness, allocation modeling,
third party billing systems, and use of surveillance data
to improve HIV prevention programs.
As I mentioned earlier, there are four categories in PS141403.
However, today we will focus on CBA for community based organizations
who will serve private, non-profit organizations that directly provide HIV prevention services
to people living with or at greatest risk of HIV infection including African Americans, Latinos,
and all race ethnicities of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men,
injection drug users and transgender individuals.
The CBA for CBO program increase the knowledge and skills of key persons in organizations
and communities, utilize staff and consultants with diverse expertise to provide training
and technical assistance and culturally proficient services, and are also aligned
with high impact prevention and provides CBA for organizations working with prevention
with positives and high risk negatives.
Here's the list of the 11 national CBA for CBO providers: AIDS United,
Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum,
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, ETR Associates, GSI and Training Institute,
the Latino Commission on AIDS, National Community Health Partners,
National Minority AIDS Council, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
Proceed, and the Regents of the University of California San Francisco.
There are three main mechanisms that are used in the delivery of CBA services.
These are information transfer, training and skills building, and technical assistance.
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I will review each mechanism in a little more detail.
First, information transfer is defined as the collection, packaging,
and dissemination of information for the recipient.
Information may be disseminated through email, [inaudible]
and branch, and batch faxes for example.
Second, skills building involves the facilitation of skill set enhancement training
of key CBO personnel whose activities contribute to increasing the capacity of an organization.
Third and lastly, technical assistance is the provision and or facilitation
of culturally relevant and expert programmatic, scientific and technical advice
through mentoring, or coaching, and support.
PS141403, technical assistance services include but are not limited to consultations on-site,
on-site services, and facilitation of peer to peer mentoring.
The next three slides provide a variety of CBA services available to PS151502 applicants.
Our CBA providers can review existing high impact prevention materials,
provide consultation on preparation of grant applications including development of memoranda
of agreement and understanding with partners, assist with HIV prevention program design
and strategic planning, assist with the development of smart objectives
and logic modeling, provide assistance with selection implementation and adaptation
of behavioral evidence based interventions.
They provide assistance with the selection and implementation
of biomedical instructional intervention and public health strategies.
They can also assist with the implementation of the continuum of care activities for example,
HIV testing including referrals to partner services, linkage to care, engagement
and re-engagement into care, treatment adherence and viral suppression.
They can provide assistance with prevention with positives
and prevention with high risk negatives.
And they can also help with the development of data management systems
for HIV prevention program monitoring, evaluation, quality assurance, and reporting.
More examples include development and or enhancement
of HIV prevention partnership strategies, development of human resources management,
budget development and physical management systems, board development, and they can assist
with increasing the organizational capacity to implement cost effective
and allocation modeling, third party billing systems and the use
of surveillance data to improve HIV prevention.
Due to a large volume of anticipated requests and the short turnaround time
to deliver quality technical assistance,
it is important that organizations prioritize their individual needs.
Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a request for capacity building assistance early
as all requests will be honored in the order they are received.
Furthermore, the capacity building branch will accept CBO CBA request forms
until October 31st, 2014 noted here in red.
Also no CBA services will be delivered for these purposes
after November 7th, 2014, also noted in red.
To request CBA services for PS151502, please visit CBB's website
to complete the CBO CBA request form and to submit to the following,
and submit it to the following mailbox: CBOCBArequest@CDC.gov.
Upon submission of the CBA request you will automatically receive an email message from CDC
that acknowledges receipt of your request.
Following receipt of your completed CBA request form, CDC will route your request
to the most appropriate CBA or CBO provider.
A CBA provider will then contact your organization
within 72 hours to initiate service delivery.
Please note that capacity building assistance will be delivered in the form
of information transfer or technical assistance.
To further assist with this effort, the CBB will host a series of grant writing trainings.
Each training is two days in length.
The grant writing training series will take place October 13th through the 17th
and October 20th to the 24th-- 21st, excuse me-- 2014.
There will be 13 trainings in 12 cities and no more
than two participants will be allowed per community based organization.
For additional information, please visit CBB's PS151502's website.
In addition to the grant writing training series,
we are hosting four live webinar trainings.
Here's a table of the date and topics for those webinars.
Topics include selecting a behavioral, structural and biomedical intervention,
developing and managing collaborations and partnerships, developing
and implementing culturally competent HIV programs, and behavioral risk screening
for transmitting and or acquiring HIV.
We hope that your organization will find this training and webinar series useful.
This slide lists additional resources on how to request CBA services during
and after PS151502 application submission.
High impact HIV prevention trainings [inaudible],
PS151502 comprehensive high impact HIV prevention
for community based organizations website, and also any questions you have related
to PS151502 should be directed to CBOSOA@CDC.gov.
If you have any questions, again please go to CBB's PS151502 website to submit your questions.
Thank you for your time and attention.
We wish you success on your application
to PS151502 comprehensive HIV prevention project for CBO.
Maria E. Alvarez can be contacted at phone number 404-639-3425
or via email at malvarez@cdc.gov.
Thank you.