Friday, May 16, 2025
5/16/2025
Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning Grants - Organization: The New York and Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network/Comprehensive Health Program/Columbia University Irving Medical Center Program Director: Dr. Susan Olender Address: Harkness Pavilion, 180 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10032-3722 Telephone: (212) 305-3174 or (212) 305-2975 Fax: (212) 305-7692 Email: so2045@cumc.columbia.edu Website: https://www.nyp.org/acn/primary-care/comprehensive-health-program-adult For “FY 2023 RWHAP Part C Capacity Development Program” we request $150,000 in supplemental funding to support the Category 1 HIV Care Innovation activity of Intimate Partner Violence Screening & Counseling. The goal of this one-year project is to strengthen NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Comprehensive Health Program (NYP-CHP) infrastructure and increase capacity to identify and address intimate partner violence (IPV) as part of high quality, family-centered services for low income, uninsured, underinsured, and underserved people living with HIV/AIDS in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. COVID-19 pandemic related increases in stress, sudden alterations in daily routines, and rapid decreases in available clinical resources has resulted in an increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) and behavioral health disorders. The proposed project will address this heightened need for screening, management, and referrals for IPV and behavioral health services. These services will be rendered as part of a team-based, evidence-based approach to support progress along the HIV Care Continuum stages of retention in care, ARV treatment, and viral suppression guided by quality measures and outcomes. This funding will also support coordination of trainings, behavioral health staffing (LCSW 0.50 FTE) and behavioral health expertise (Psychiatry Specialist NP or MD 0.40 FTE) to better render safe, confidential IPV screening and referrals when needed even in this new era of Telehealth. Telehealth, which has become a preference/necessity for some clients, has resulted in additional challenges with confidentiality and safe planning. The proposed evidence-based IPV screening, counseling, and management program will draw upon the HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner Violence 2017-2020 and evidence informed guidance from IPV Health Partners Toolkit including the evidence-based intervention, “Confidentiality, Universal Education, Empowerment and Support” (CUES) as a universal, open-ended strategy to screen for IPV with management and referrals. We will strengthen sustainable procedures for both in-person and telemedicine services to improve outcomes along the HIV care continuum as well as behavioral health and quality of life for women, infants, children, youth (WICY) and other high-risk populations. We will apply the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework for program evaluation. 1. Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Women’s Health, The HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner Violence. Rockville, Maryland: 2017. 2. IPV Health Partners, Futures without Violence (2018). https://ipvhealthpartners.org/
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