PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
The Consumer-Provider Partnership for Care Program
will provide HIV
healthcare agencies with a framework for developing partnerships
between their staff and HIV+ women consumers in order to improve
their reach, recruitment and retention of other HIV+ women who are
not in care. Through specialized training and technical assistance,
agencies will learn how to establish and utilize effective
consumer-provider partnerships to address the daunting challenges of
engaging and retaining hard-to-reach
vulnerable women in care. These partnerships will also contribute
to the provision of comprehensive, coordinated and culturally
competent family-centered HIV care that includes the active
involvement of consumers in their own care.
PROJECT
OVERVIEW
Agencies can have
difficulty identifying and reaching the most vulnerable HIV+ women
in need of care and/or retaining HIV+ women in services. However,
your consumers often know how to find other women who are not
accessing services, and understand the issues that make it difficult
for HIV+ women and their families to access services and manage
their healthcare. Your consumers (HIV+ women who are successfully
involved in their own healthcare) and clinical staff can work
effectively in partnership to address these challenges. Consumers can
function as role models to other HIV+ women, and as liaisons between
clinical care staff and women in need of services. For the
consumer-provider partnership to work effectively and improve access
to and retention in services, both consumers and clinical staff need
training and follow-up support on partnering together and utilizing
evidence-based techniques and public health strategies such as:
social network strategy; motivational interviewing; harm reduction;
and adherence strategies. All of the interventions and strategies
presented in this training program have documented evidence of
efficacy and the training will allow for a broad dissemination of
these techniques through Ryan White Part D agencies. Consumers and
clinical staff will learn to pursue this unique partnership with the
common goals of identifying hard-to-reach, vulnerable HIV+ women and
their families, increasing access to care, and supporting women as
they learn to become actively involved in their own healthcare.
ABOUT
CICATELLI ASSOCIATES INC.
Cicatelli Associates Inc. (CAI) is
offering several training and technical assistance series to
clinical care staff and consumers to help agencies implement the
Consumer-Provider Partnership for Care Program.
CAI is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3)
training and technical assistance organization that has been working
to improve the quality of HIV care to underserved, vulnerable
populations since the beginning of the epidemic. Using our
successful model of training and technical assistance, and our
experience in providing training on integrating peer advocates in
healthcare teams to Ryan White funded agencies and other HIV
healthcare providers, we have designed a four-day training program
that targets clinical care staff and consumers.
Funding for this
program is provided under Training and Technical Assistance
Cooperative Agreements Targeting Part D Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
Grantees (CATPD) Competing Guidance 08-085.
