MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

In 1979, I started Cicatelli Associates Inc. with a belief that those offering services to communities in need deserved the same – if not greater – level of excellence in training and capacity building resources as I had witnessed in the corporate world. Today, 30 years later, CAI continues to make every effort possible to meet the needs and assist in improving the services of public sector health and human service providers, nationally and internationally.  more...

NATIONAL NEWS

The Recruitment and Retention of HIV+ Women into Services: Consumer Provider Partnership for Care
Health care providers can have difficulty identifying, reaching, and retaining the most vulnerable HIV+ women in need of care, but consumers (HIV+ women who are successfully involved in their own health care) can help bridge this gap. Consumers often know how and where to find other HIV+ women who are not accessing services and can help agencies to better understand the reasons why.  more…

Enhancing the Delivery of Reproductive Health Services in the US Virgin Islands
CAI recently supported the US Virgin Islands in their efforts to reach out to private and public health care providers and raise awareness and build skills related to the provision of reproductive health care services. CAI’s Office of Population Affairs Title X Family Planning Training Center for Region II and our Region II Infertility Prevention Project joined with the Region II STD/HIV Prevention Training Center in designing and delivering a week-long STD/HIV training in January of 2009.  more…

Client-Level Data Readiness Assessment for Ryan White Part D Grantees
The HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau funded CAI in late 2008 to conduct a three-year process to assess the capacity of Ryan White Part D grantees to successfully collect and report client-level data required for various core medical and support services.  more…

Office of Population Affairs Title X Region IV Webinar
On February 10, 2009, our OPA Title X Regional Training Center for the Region IV project, which is coordinated out of the CAI Atlanta, Georgia office, sponsored a region-wide webinar titled, “Contraceptive Update for Family Planning Providers in the Eight States of DHHS Region IV.”  more...

NYCDOHMH Agency-Wide Consulting Contract
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH) selected CAI to be one of three agencies designated to provide temporary consultant services to all of its divisions and bureaus.  more...

Center for Evidence Based Interventions
CAI’s Center for Evidence Based Interventions’ (CEBI) recent trainings and activities include providing a Social Network Strategy for HIV Counseling Testing and Referral Training of Trainers in South Carolina, a Safety Counts Training of Trainers in Florida and serving as consultants to Public Health Solutions.  more...

Staten Island STOP Holds 2009 Spring Conference on Pregnancy and Smoking
On March 26, 2009, CAI's Staten Island STOP (Support to Overcome Puffing) program held a spring conference on pregnancy and smoking. At the conference participants learned about the 5A’s; were taught how to counsel the pregnant smoker; discussed tobacco cessation medications and their use during pregnancy; and learned about resources available to pregnant Staten Island residents.  more...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Dominican Republic
CAI conducted a five-day training in Santo Domingo in February for paraprofessionals attached to NGOs in Region 5 and the border regions in Home-Based and Palliative Care. CAI also conducted a training in Santo Domingo in January 2009 for staff of NGOs providing home-based care on the use of tools for monitoring their services and programs. Gisselle Vasquez, MD, CAI Director of Home-Based and Palliative Care Public-Private Partnerships in the Dominican Republic, won the National Prize for Youth for her contribution to national health.  more...

El Salvador
CAI conducted a training in February 2009 for management staff of 15 NGOs that work with vulnerable populations in El Salvador. The training was designed to provide managers with skills in leadership to improve their ability to effectively direct their organizations.  more...

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