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Capacity Building Initiatives |
The Capacity Building Assistance Project (CBA), in collaboration with
AIDS Project Los Angeles, provides services targeted to Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded community based
organizations (CBO) delivering HIV prevention and care programs to
Latino communities in the western region of the United States. Other CBA
consumers include state and local health departments, as well as CBO
funded by state and local health departments, to implement HIV
prevention activities targeting Latinos and other communities of color.
The CBA services are designed to enhance capacity to adopt, implement,
improve, evaluate, and sustain the delivery of effective, top quality,
culturally responsible HIV prevention interventions for Latinos and
other people of color at risk for, or living with, HIV/AIDS and their
partners.
The Capacity Building Initiative makes available a menu of services that
includes full-day training workshops and one-on-one CBA consultations to
CBO and health departments. The services focus on the following domains:
- Program planning and development
- Evaluation and needs assessment
- Adaptation and adoption of evidence-based interventions
There are seven main objectives of the CBA Initiative designed to
respond to the goals described, they are as follows:
- Objective 1: To develop a mechanism for ongoing input and
feedback from potential CBA consumers as identified by the CDC.
- Objective 2: To recruit, train, and retain a maximum of 20
CBA consultants who will reports a 15% increase in knowledge about
domains of CBA services to be provided. A minimum of two trainings
for CBA consultant will be conducted over the duration of the first
phase of the CBA Initiative.
- Objective 3: To develop mechanisms for tracking and
managing requests for CBA and coordinating CBA services in the
Western region of the United States.
- Objective 4: To provide one-day training workshops for each
of the CBA domains described in the menu of CBA services each year
for the duration of the first phase of CBA Initiative for 80% of
CDC-funded state and local health departments and CBO delivering HIV
prevention programs to Latinos in the Western region of the United
States resulting in a 15% increase in knowledge.
- Objective 5: To develop and administer surveys designed to
assess specific CBA needs and core competencies to a minimum of 80%
of state and local health departments and CDC-funded CBO delivering
HIV prevention programs to Latinos in the Western region.
- Objective 6: To develop CBA plans and CBA service
agreements for a maximum of three state and local health departments
and five CDC-funded CBO delivering HIV prevention programs to
Latinos in the Western region of the United States each year for the
duration of the first phase of the CBA initiative
- Objective 7: To provide a minimum of 40 house of
one-on-one CBA consultations to each of the three state and local
health departments and five CDC-funded CBO delivering HIV prevention
programs to Latinos in the Western region of the United States each
year for the durations of the first phase of the CBA initiative
The CBA Initiative infrastructure design also includes a consultant
pool and a regional consumer advisory board for comprehensive competence
and quality assurance. We provide services to multiple populations,
including the HIV/AIDS impacted community, including but not
exclusively, Latino men who have sex with men. Furthermore, our center
is a recognized HIV/AIDS research and resource center with a trusted
behavioral scientist and community advocate, Dr. Rafael M. Diaz at the
helm.
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The César E. Chávez Institute
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