CAI Awarded Funding for Two New Special Projects
CAI, the administrative infrastructure of the Region II and IV Infertility Prevention Projects (IPP), was recently awarded competitive funding for two one-year special projects for FY2010. The Region II project is titled “Queryable Prevalence Monitoring Database (Q-PMD) for Targeted Local Trends Analysis,” and the Region IV project will look at “Addressing Health Disparities in African American Communities Utilizing a Community-based Participatory Research Approach”. more…

The CAI Avon Research and Evaluation Team is pleased to announce that their abstract submission to the 2009 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) was accepted as a poster presentation entitled, “Promising Practices in Mammography Recruitment, Retention and Rescreening for Breast Cancer Early Detection among Community-Based Programs Supported by the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund”.  more...

CAI Funded to Coordinate a Training-of-Trainers for the Northeast Federal Training Centers Collaborative (Northeast FTCC)
CAI just received one-year funding from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) to coordinate a training-of-trainers (TOT) for the Northeast FTCC. The FTCC is comprised of representatives from the six federally funded training projects that address HIV/AIDS in the region. The focus of the TOT will be on enhancing program collaboration and service integration by developing a model for collaborative training. more...

In September, CAI/Atlanta, which is the Title X Region IV, Regional Training Center (RTC), was awarded one-year funding from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) to serve as the lead agency for the Southeast FTCC.  more…
 

The Consumer Provider Partnership for Care training and technical assistance targets Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-Funded Part D grantees and will provide health care agencies a framework for developing partnerships between their staff and women patients who are HIV positive. The goal is for the agencies to improve their outreach, recruitment and retention of HIV positive women who are not in care, new to care, or lost to care.  more…
 

The Transitioning HIV+ Youth from Adolescent to Adult Services Program is part of the national Consumer-Provider Partnership Project CAI is conducting. The training and technical assistance helps agencies implement effective and innovative strategies for building up HIV+ young adult consumers to serve as mentors who can help other HIV+ youth transition to adult health care. more…

The 16th annual NATISHEwas a five-day skill oriented training institute that focused on the development of training programs and presentation skills. It is designed particularly for individuals in family planning settings, schools and community-based organizations. This year’s NATISHE was titled, “(r)Evolution: Today’s Sexual Health Educator”. more...

The bi-annual Title X Grantee meeting was held August 19-21, 2009 in Chicago, IL, and close to 300 Title X staff attended. The goal of the meeting was to communicate Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning (OPA/OFP) policies, initiatives, and priorities as well as accomplishments. more...

The National Training Center for Family Planning (NTC) planned and coordinated the 10^th annual OPA Technical Support Conference that took place from April 22-24 in San Diego, CA. The objectives of the conference were to update HIV Prevention projects on recent initiatives and advancements in HIV prevention; to explore strategies to improve integration of routine testing; to strengthen partnerships among the projects and grantees, both regionally and nationally; and to build skills related to prevention education and HIV/AIDS counseling.  more…
 

The leadership of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic invited CAI President Barbara Cicatelli, MA, and CAI’s Senior Research Scientist, Michael Anastario, Ph.D., to present the results of the HIV/STI behavioral risk study that CAI conducted with 498 Dominican military personnel stationed on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. more...