Training Opportunities to Improve Planning and Service Delivery Ryan White CARE Act 2006 Grantee Con

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Training Opportunities to Improve Planning and
Service DeliveryRyan White CARE Act 2006
Grantee ConferenceAugust 30, 2006

• Scott Thompson, MPH
• Deborah McGruder, MPH

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Workshop Learning Objectives

• Describe the various trainings and technical
  assistance opportunities available from AED.
• 2) Explain the purpose, objectives, and target
  audience of each training as well as how the
  training can benefit the participants.
• 3) Assess accurately whether a specific
  training would be appropriate for his or her
  planning body and how to register for assistance.

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Whats in Our Training Bag?

• Trainers/Facilitators Manual
• Participant Manual
• Power point presentation
• Interactive Exercises
• Handouts
• Worksheets/Tools
• Resources

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Strengthening Consumer Leadership and Involvement
(SCILS) Project

• Strengthen the leadership skills of
  PLWH/consumers to ensure they are informed
  advocates and skilled leaders in their local
  community and planning efforts on councils,
  consortia, CABs, advisory groups.
• Increase the capacity of planning council
  members, especially consumer members, to engage
  in complex decision-making in a changing
  environment and to remain on the cutting edge of
  care planning through skills building, technology
  transfer, and knowledge dissemination.

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SCILS Training Curricula

• CARE Act Planning in a Changing Environment
• LEadership in Advocacy and Planning (LEAP)
  Training

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CARE Act Planning in a Changing Environment

• One-day training designed for Title I Planning
  Councils, especially consumer members.
• Focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to
  engage in cutting-edge decision-making in a
  changing environment.
• Address many issues and topics, how they impact
  decision-making, and how to balance primary care
  needs with supportive services needs.
• Focuses on how to use utilization data to plan
  for increased demand with less resources.
• Participants learn and practice new strategies
  for incorporating new information into
  decision-making and how to consider shared
  values and justices paradigms when making
  resource allocation decisions.

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Training Objectives

• Learn a process (approach) for prioritizing and
  assessing the significance changes and new
  information based on criteria.
• Discussion of changes in the EMA that most impact
  the work of planning council members.
• Empowerment (particularly as consumers) in
  identifying changing factors and using data to
  plan a system of care that meets local needs.
• Use scenarios to build skills and gain practice
  in using information to make decisions.
• Increase understanding of local goals and HRSAs
  goals regarding service planning and funding.

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Overview of the Days Activities

• Introduction
• Module 1 Develop an approach to organize our
  efforts to respond to change
• Module 2 Discuss our role as advocates and
  planners and consumer empowerment
• Module 3 Analyze data and articulate our shared
  values and justice paradigms
• Module 4 Use our framework and new skills to
  make allocations decisions.

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When and Where?

• Trainings sites and dates are currently being
  scheduled.
• We provide local travel and child care
  reimbursement for participants as well as meals.
• Our goal is to locate free training space in the
  local community.
• If interested in having one in your area, or for
  an application, contact Scott Thompson at
  sthompso_at_aed.org.

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LEadership in Advocacy and Planning
(LEAP)Consumer Leadership Training

• Academy for Educational Development
• in partnership with the
• National Association of People with AIDS

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About LEAP

• The LEAP Training is a two-and-a-half-day session
  designed by and provided for people living with
  HIV/AIDS.
• It is designed to help consumers who want to
• develop and enhance their advocacy, planning, and
  leadership skills
• learn how to use their energy and voice to make a
  difference in their community.

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About LEAP (cont.)

• LEAP provides participants with
• Information
• Skills-building exercises, and
• Activities designed to strengthen the capacity of
  consumers to participate on a variety of planning
  bodies, community advisory boards, and generally
  get involved in their community.

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LEAP Training ObjectivesParticipants develop the
following core competencies

• Ability to talk about leadership in terms of key
  individuals in social movements leading up to the
  AIDS movement.
• Understand a variety of consumer roles in
  HIV/AIDS advocacy and planning.
• Greater understanding of the Ryan White CARE Act.
• Better understanding how their individual
  motivation for involvement in advocacy can be
  carried into action.
• Ability to define leadership in terms of advocacy
  work and identify major characteristics of
  leaders.

• Describe issues related to HIV disclosure in a
  public and private setting.
• Identify individual strengthens, experience, and
  interests relating to AIDS advocacy and community
  involvement.
• Understand more about important sources of
  information on HIV/AIDS and how to access these
  sources.
• Develop an individualized action plan with
  concrete steps for meeting personal community
  involvement and advocacy goals.

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When and Where?

• Trainings sites and dates are currently being
  scheduled.
• We provide local travel and child care
  reimbursement for participants as well as meals.
• Our goal is to locate free training space in the
  local community.
• If interested in having one in your area, or for
  an application, contact Scott Thompson at
  sthompso_at_aed.org.

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Increasing Capacity of CARE Act Recipients
(ICCAR) Project

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ICCAR Training Curricula

• Identifying and Linking PLWH into Care by
  Enhancing Care and Prevention Partnerships
• Monitoring and Evaluating the Planning Process

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Identifying and Linking PLWH into Care by
Enhancing Care and Prevention Partnerships

• One-day training that helps care planning bodies
  and administrators develop new methods of
  identifying people living with HIV disease (PLWH)
  and not in care.
• Educates council members on the role prevention
  partnerships play in reducing barriers and
  increasing access and retention in primary care.
• Educates planning bodies about the prevention
  side of the continuum to increase their capacity
  to identify opportunities for partnerships with
  prevention, reduce duplication of services, and
  create efficient plans.
• Addresses the HIV prevention Community Planning
  process and the CDCs Advancing HIV Prevention
  (AHP) Initiative. Reviews federal requirements
  for prevention and care collaboration and offers
  models and strategies for merging planning
  processes.
• Participants learn about the continuum of
  science-based prevention interventions funded by
  CDC, including HIV counseling and testing
  strategies, rapid testing, and partner counseling
  and referral services.

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Training Goals

• Increase the ability of CARE Act administrators,
  planning bodies, and care providers to identify
  persons living with HIV who are not in care and
  link them into care.
• Examine the importance of coordination with HIV
  prevention in order to identify PLWH.
• Discuss successful interventions and models of
  prevention/care partnerships that facilitate
  identifying PLWH and linking them into care.
  These models include involve administration,
  planning, and service delivery.
• Develop an action plan for the planning body to
  work with prevention and other providers to
  better identify PLWH.

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Identifying and Linking PLWH into Care by
Enhancing Care and Prevention Partnerships

• Module 1 Overview of HIV Prevention and
  Care Arenas
• Module 2 Overview of a Comprehensive HIV
  Prevention Strategy
• Module 3 Collaboration in Care and
  Prevention Planning
• Module 4 Action Planning for Identifying
  PLWH

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Monitoring and Evaluating the Planning Process

• One day training to improve Title I planning
  councils capacity to evaluate their planning
  activities.
• Discusses the importance of evaluating the
  planning process provides a structured
  step-by-step guide and tools for implementing an
  evaluation of each planning activity.
• Instructs how to use the findings to improve the
  planning process.
• Explains how to use each of the tools designed to
  assess the needs assessment, priority setting,
  resource allocation, comprehensive planning and
  quality assurance processes.
• Uses presentation and interactive exercises to
  teach participants ways to use the evaluation
  results.

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Monitoring and Evaluating the Planning Process

• Module 1 Designing an Evaluation Plan
• Module 2 Gathering Credible Evidence
• Module 3 Managing and Analyzing
  Evaluation Data
• Module 4 Using the Evaluation Results
• Set of Evaluation Worksheets for Each Planning
  Activity containing
  Goal/Objectives/Indicators/Questions

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Benefits of Evaluating Planning Activities

• Evaluating Planning Activities has several
  benefits
• Helps ensure your planning activities are in line
  with the requirements and recommendations
  outlined by Congress and HRSA/HAB
• Fosters buy-in from the Council
• Helps ensure that all information and planning
  processes are open to all stakeholders involved
  with the planning activity
• Helps outline possible areas for improvement in
  the overall planning process

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Who did we train under ICCAR?

• ID PLWH
• Norfolk
• Las Vegas
• Hartford
• Dutchess County
• Ft. Lauderdale
• Orlando
• St. Louis

• Evaluating Planning
• Ft. Lauderdale
• Phoenix
• Hartford
• Orlando
• Middlesex
• Bergen Passaic
• Los Angeles
• Las Vegas
• Tampa

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What have we seen so far?

• Many planning councils (PCs) have limited
  understanding/knowledge of evaluation and
  prevention planning and services.
• Some PCs collaborate/coordinate with prevention
  very minimally.
• Breadth of experience, expertise, capacity varies
  greatly among members of same PC with regard to
  evaluation and prevention.
• Desire and intention to collaborate is present,
  but resources to do so are scarce.
• Very little evaluation of planning activities has
  occurred.
• Great amount of interest in the trainings. We
  have a wait list.
• PSAs reflect very high levels of participant
  satisfaction.

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When and Where?

• Training can be requested directly by the
  planning council, consortia, or grantee by
  contacting Scott Thompson at sthompso_at_aed.org or
  your Project Officer.
• Training can be provided through a direct
  contractual arrangement with AED.
• Electronic copies of training materials are
  available for free by contacting AED or your
  Project Officer.

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Increasing Skills to Identify Needs and
Capacity (INSINC)
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About INSINC

• Project Goals
• Increase the ability of CARE Act grantees and
  Planning Councils to identify capacity and
  infrastructure needs in underserved communities.
• Increase the ability of CARE Act grantees,
  Planning Councils, Consortia, and providers to
  identify and address the barriers that prohibit
  access to and retention in care for substance
  users and recently-released inmates.

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INSINC Training Curricula

• 1. Capacity and Infrastructure
  Assessment
• 2. Services Integration for Special
  Populations
• a. Substance users
• b. Recently released

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Capacity and Infrastructure Assessment Training

• This one day training is based on a framework of
  capacity building that examines capacity building
  needs at an agency-level, but also focuses on the
  infrastructure needs of the EMA.

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Capacity and Infrastructure Assessment Training

• Module 1 provides planning councils and grantees
  an overview of a comprehensive needs assessment
  process that identifies infrastructure, capacity,
  and service needs. Participants learn the
  importance of the epidemiologic profile and unmet
  need framework in this process.
• Module 2 introduces participants to
  organizational and HIV/AIDS treatment and care
  core competencies. Participants will utilize a
  capacity assessment framework, a community
  mapping model, and two surveys to assess a
  providers organizational and HIV/AIDS treatment
  and care-related capacity.

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Capacity and Infrastructure Assessment Training

• Module 3 Participants are introduced to tools and
  resources that will help them organize survey
  data and implement the tools using a case study.
• Module 4 Trainers will review methods for
  analyzing capacity assessment data and review
  guidelines to help the planning council outline
  and prioritize capacity-development needs.

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Services Integration for Special Populations

• Academy for Educational Development
• in partnership with
• CAEAR Foundation
• and
• Centerforce, Inc.

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Services Integration for Special Populations

• Two day training based on the consideration of
  the care needs of HIV positive substance users
  and individuals recently released from
  correctional systems.
• This training will assist planning council
  members and CARE Act grantees to identify and
  address systemic barriers that impact services
  integration.

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Services Integration for Special
PopulationsSubstance Users

• Module 1 provides an overview of services
  integration and its importance in the provision
  of services for HIV positive substance users.
• Module 2 focuses on proven techniques and
  strategies that promote access to and retention
  in the care system for HIV positive substance
  users and identifies challenges that must be
  confronted if services integration is to be
  meaningful.

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Services Integration for Special
PopulationsSubstance Users

• Module 3 guides participants through the process
  of developing partnering relationships. The
  module builds upon earlier sessions and provides
  recommendations for effective administration and
  oversight of primary care and substance abuse
  treatment services.
• Module 4 provides an overview of strategies for
  identifying funding sources in order to promote
  policies and funding initiatives that support
  collaboration and services integration at the
  provider level.

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Services Integration for Special
PopulationsRecently Released Inmates

• Module 1 provides an overview of existing systems
  and service integration for the HIV positive
  recently released population.
• Module 2 focuses on proven techniques and
  strategies that promote access and retention in
  the care system.

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Services Integration for Special
PopulationsRecently Released Inmates

• Module 3 provides instruction on how grantees and
  planning bodies can improve continuity of care
  for recently released inmates.
• Module 4 offers strategies for collaborating with
  state and local agencies for funding of services.

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When and Where?

• Training can be requested directly by the
  planning council, consortia, or grantee by
  contacting Deborah McGruder at dmcgrude_at_aed.org
  or your Project Officer.