Mission Statement
Strengthening Community Access to and Utilization of HIV Prevention Services
This project is funded by The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for this five year project to provide capacity building assistance (CBA) to Native communities, Tribal Health Departments, State Health Departments, other CDC funded CBAs and organizations serving Native Americans (defined as American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). Our directive is to assist communities who are providing HIV/AIDS related services to increase their capacity for HIV/AIDS prevention. Our mission for this project is to work collaboratively with Native communities to increase effective HIV/AIDS prevention and encourage and support early detection through testing.
Goals
Strengthen the capacity of CBOs serving Native people to develop and implement regionally specific and community specific strategies to assess service gaps, improve access to HIV/AIDS services and increase utilization of services through training on use of the Community Readiness Model for assessment, application, strategy development, and development of social marketing efforts;
Increase the proportion of HIV infected individuals who know they are infected through enhancing early detection/testing. This will be done in collaboration with CBOs who will develop community-specific and culturally appropriate social marketing strategies for education, awareness and early testing;
Increase the proportion of HIV-infected people who are linked to appropriate prevention, support care, and treatment services through building CBO capacity for consumer directed program development, enhancement, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability through local support and external funding.
CBA products that will be available under this project include: Training materials focused on use of the Community Readiness Model; Readiness Assessment, Scoring and Readiness Action Plan Development; Organizational Readiness Assessment and Action Planning; Resource Information; Assistance with Service System Descriptions; Evaluation/Sustainability Training; Social Marketing for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Early Testing Specific to Native Communities; and Program Marketing and Public Relations.