CAPACITY BUILDING ASISTANCE

Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) is both the art and science of giving knowledge, skills and technology that affect individual abilities and organizational systems (including community) towards improving and sustaining effective and efficient HIV prevention.

The goal of capacity building is to improve the performance of the HIV prevention workforce by ensuring scientifically sound and culturally proficient assistance through information sharing, training, provision of technical assistance and technology transfer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV Prevention (CDC/DHAP) is committed to increasing the capacity of the HIV prevention workforce in reducing the number of HIV infections in racial/ethnic minority individuals and ensuring that these individuals have access to HIV prevention, testing, care and treatment services.

The goals of CDC’s CBA program are:

1. To improve the capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) to strengthen and sustain organizational infrastructures that supports the delivery of effective HIV prevention services and interventions for high-risk racial/ethnic minority individuals;

2. To improve the capacity of CBOs and Health Departments to implement, improve, and evaluate HIV prevention interventions for high-risk racial/ethnic minority individuals of unknown serostatus, including pregnant women, and people of color who are living with HIV/AIDS and their partners;

3. To improve the capacity of CBOs and other community stakeholders on how to implement strategies that will increase access to and utilization of HIV prevention and risk-reduction and avoidance services (including those under the Advancing HIV Prevention Initiative) for racial/ethnic minority individuals; and

4. To improve the capacity of Community Planning Groups (CPGs) and Health Departments to include HIV infected and affected racial/ethnic minority participants in the community planning process, and to increase parity, inclusion, and representation (PIR).

In order to meet these goals, CDC funded 27 CBA providers through a competitive process to deliver services to CBOs and other HIV prevention stakeholders. These national and regional non-governmental organizations serve as providers and brokers who create linkages to expert consultants who deliver culturally appropriate, state-of-the-science prevention services to targeted communities. These CBA providers are funded to deliver assistance in four focus areas:

Focus Area 1: Strengthening Organizational Infrastructure for HIV Prevention

Focus Area 2: Strengthening Interventions for HIV Prevention

Focus Area 3: Strengthening Community Access To and Utilization of HIV Prevention Services

Focus Area 4: Strengthening Community Planning for HIV Prevention

To request the services of a CBA provider, please visit www.cdc.gov/hiv/cba

CBA for HISPANICS/LATINOS

FOCUS AREA 1

STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HIV PREVENTION

PROCEED, Inc.

CBA Services - Nationally

1126 Dickinson Street

Elizabeth , NJ 07201

Telephone: (908) 351-7727

Web address: www.proceedinc.com

FOCUS AREA 2

STRENGTHENING HIV PREVENTION INTERVENTIONS

FOCUS AREA 3

INCREASING ACCESS TO AND UTILIZATION OF HIV PREVENTION SERVICES

FOCUS AREA 4

STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY PLANNING FOR HIV PREVENTION