Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers Program - PROJECT ABSTRACT Project Title: The Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center (NECA AETC) Applicant Organization Name: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Address: 601 West 168th Street, Suite 46, New York, NY 10032 Project Director Name: Daria Boccher-Lattimore Telephone Number: 646.774.6978 Fax Number: 646.774.6955 E-mail address of PI: dmb82@cumc.columbia.edu Funding request: 4,820,000/year Funding Preferences Requested: Train, or result in the training of, health professionals who will provide treatment for minority individuals with HIV and at increased risk; Train, or result in the training of, minority-serving health professionals and minority-serving allied health professionals to provide treatment for individuals with HIV; and Train, or result in the training of, health professionals and allied health professionals to provide treatment for Hepatitis B or C co-infected individuals This proposal for the Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education & Training Center (NECA AETC) has the overall goals to 1) Expand the number of health care team members providing HIV care and prevention services, 2) Expand the ability of health care team members to provide effective HIV care and prevention services 3) Improve health equity by integrating HIV care and prevention in primary care and other health care settings that provide services to underserved populations.4) Enhance the capacity of the AETC Program to train health care team members to serve people at risk for or with HIV. The proposed geographical region corresponds with Health and Human Services Public Health Region 2: New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Puerto Rico (PR) and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Since the start of the HIV epidemic NJ, NY, PR and USVI have been greatly impacted. The region is home to 10% of the US population, nearly 33 million people, and 16.5% of people with HIV in the US, 176,201, of whom 84% are racial/ethnic minorities. The NECA AETCs approach aims to: (1) Identify and be responsive to the training and technical assistance needs of health care providers (HCPs); (2) Increase the size and HIV-related skills of HCPs currently not involved in HIV care; (3) Increase the ability of health care team members involved in HIV care to offer quality services; (4) Facilitate systems change by providing coaching and practice facilitation utilizing a comprehensive longitudinal training approach;(5) Assist health profession programs to increase the number of HCPs providing quality HIV care; (2-5 Base programming) (6) Increase the capacity of minority-serving health care team members, facilities, and organizations to increase access to care, (MAI) (7) address the unique training needs of the health care workforce and organizations in EHE-funded jurisdictions; (EHE) (8) Strengthen partnerships and collaborations with other RWHAP Parts, Federal and non-Federal entities; (8) Systematically document and evaluate program activities to continuously assess and improve the program; (9) Sustain a regionally coordinated education and training program that promotes collaboration, ensures high quality curricula, and rapidly disseminates information. The NECA AETC consists of a Central Office at Columbia University in NY and 10 well-positioned Regional Partners drawing upon the clinical and capacity building expertise of the major academic medical centers, clinical practices and systems change experts in Region 2. NECA AETC will expand the established collaborative process with all Ryan White funded Part A-D and F entities in the region to share program and evaluation data and address workforce and training needs.
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