Providing capacity building assistance: Technical assistance for high-impact prevention programs to end the US HIV epidemic - Building off our previous CDC-funded Capacity Building Assistance experience under 4 prior awards (PS-050-051/PS-06-618/PS-09-906/PS-14-1403), we are applying for PS-24-0020’s Component D to provide technical assistance (TA) for high-impact HIV prevention. UCSF collaborators include the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, and the UCSF Alliance Health Project. Our team has the expertise to provide individualized and specialized TA to assist CDC-funded organizations (health department jurisdictions and CBOs) with programmatic challenges to effectively plan, implement, monitor/evaluate, and sustain HIV prevention programs. Our TA will incorporate social determinants of health and syndemic theory and include strategies to maximize limited program resources and build strong collaborations. We will deliver community-engaged, culturally, linguistically, and educationally appropriate TA including personalized training, mentoring/consultation, skills-building, information-sharing, resource development and sharing (e.g., webinars, summits, institutes), and peer learning opportunities (e.g., communities of practice). We will address the four EHE pillars (i.e., identify, prevent, treat, respond), social network and other client recruitment strategies, and navigation and other whole-person prevention approaches.
