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CAI News October - December 2008 Vol. 1, No. 4 |
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CAI Celebrates 30 Years of Service
Cicatelli
Associates Inc. (CAI) is proud to announce that 2009 marks our 30th Anniversary
of providing training and capacity development for health and human services
providers that is directed at enhancing the breadth and quality of health care
and social services being delivered to underserved and vulnerable populations.
As CAI marks this momentous occasion, we remain dedicated to addressing some of
the most challenging health issues of our times by working to overcome health
disparities, eliminate stigma and discrimination, and provide solutions to
addressing increasing needs in the face of decreasing resources.
• Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund Updates
Since 2000, the Avon Foundation has funded CAI to administer, coordinate and
manage the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund (AFBCF) and distribute more than
US$6 million in grants to more than 140 national community-based, non-profit
organizations each year. In 2009, a total of $6,150,000 will be awarded to 143
organizations across the United States. These projects are expected to bring
more than 100,000 women into breast cancer screening and treatment in 2009. In
2008, the AFBCF also presented 14 educational teleconferences and webinars to
grantees on pertinent cutting-edge information about breast health and other
related topics.
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• Integrating Peer Advocates as Essential Members of Multi-Disciplinary
Healthcare Teams
As a three-year demonstration project, Integrating Peer Advocates as
Essential Members of Multi-Disciplinary Healthcare Teams, helped Ryan White Care
Act clinical sites improve client adherence to medication and retention in care
by building their capacity to have peers work effectively on their healthcare
teams.
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• Healthy Teens Initiative Expanding to Brooklyn
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)
Healthy Teens Initiative (HTI) is wrapping up activities in the Bronx and moving
on to Brooklyn starting in January 2009. The HTI was launched in 2006 as part of
an effort to increase access and reduce teen pregnancy in boroughs with some of
the highest teen pregnancy rates in New York City.
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• CAI Named Statewide Training Center for the New York WIC Program
CAI is the new Statewide Training Center for the WIC Program. In this role
CAI will develop and implement a statewide training initiative for staff of the
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Program and other programs administered by the New York State Department of
Health, Division of Nutrition, Bureau of Supplemental Food Programs.
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• PWA/LTI World AIDS Day Activities
The People Living with HIV/AIDS Leadership Training Institute (PWA/LTI)
recognizes members of the AIDS Institutes' Quality of Care Young Adults Advisory
Committee for providing education to more than 1,700 elementary, middle, and
high school students who visited a portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display
during World AIDS Day activities held in Albany from December 1-4.
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• Staten Island STOP Receives Recognition and Media Coverage
CAI is funded by the New York State Department Of Health Tobacco Control
Program (NYSDOH TCP) to integrate treating tobacco dependence into health care
services on Staten Island. In November, CAI’s Staten Island STOP (Support to
Overcome Puffing) project received recognition and media coverage for its
smoking cessation efforts.
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• NYSDOH Mental Health Trainings Conducted
In 2008, as part of a new initiative to provide direct mental health
services for persons living with HIV, the New York State Department of Health
awarded grants to 20 health and research organizations. As a grantee, CAI is
providing training and technical assistance to mental health providers who work
with the treatment and management of individuals with mental illness and HIV
infection.
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• Guyana
In the last quarter of 2008, CAI was busy with activities related to finalizing
its projects for the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (GHARP).
CAI conducted several final reports and evaluations of its projects; provided
four additional young adults scholarships for on-the-job skills-based training
at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and
Development; and contributed to Guyana's National Mental Health Initiative, led
by the Ministry of Health, by conducting a training in Early Childhood Trauma
for ages 0 to 5.
• Dominican Republic
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
contracted CAI to perform a study of high-risk sexual behavior among Dominican
military personnel stationed at frontier postings along the border of the
Dominican Republic and Haiti. This study is intended to provide the Dominican
armed forces with baseline data on domains of high-risk sexual behavior within
their military personnel stationed along the border, as well as baseline data on
personnel knowledge of STI/HIV/AIDS.
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• El Salvador
Dr. Tony Jiménez, Deputy Director of Training at CAI, was keynote speaker at
two forums in El Salvador. In 2009, CAI will be doing a continuation of the NGO
strengthening project and facilitating a retreat with the personnel of the
Ministry of Health National STI HIV/AIDS Program.
more…
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