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What is Capacity Building Assistance?

Capacity building refers to activities that improve an organization or HIV program’s ability to achieve its mission and goals more effectively. It is a key strategy for the promotion and sustainability of health prevention programs.

A&PI Wellness Center provides technical support using a variety of culturally-competent approaches to improve delivery of HIV services, increase HIV awareness and fight the HIV epidemic with a focus on communities of color.

Our Goals

• Increase cultural and linguistic capacity within HIV-related health systems
• Increase specific resources within the health care system
• Increase community leadership, mobilization and investment in HIV/AIDS services
• Increase acceptance of HIV/AIDS in families and communities

Our Approach to Capacity Building Assistance

• Organizational Development—Technical support to strengthen organizational effectiveness and enhance leadership development are key areas to build vital and robust agencies to house HIV programs.
• Program Development—Technical support focuses on logic models to build program building blocks to adapt evidence-based behavioral interventions, HIV testing and other key program ingredients to impact HIV in locally based neighborhoods.
• Program Monitoring and Evaluation—Technical support to focus on performance, lessons learned and impact on reducing HIV and increasing early access to those communities in need.
• Community Mobilization—Technical support to strengthen leadership responses to mitigate the HIV epidemic, using theoretical models to create change around stigma, new leadership involvement of families and people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Social Marketing—Technical support to use media to shape opinion and change social norms.

Our CBA Programs support individuals, community-based organizations, federal, state and city health departments and communities across the U.S and the Pacific Island Jurisdictions.

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Our National CBA Program

Funded by the CDC, this program is a network of CBA providers that provide national- and regional-level support to community-based organizations. A&PI Wellness Center provides support around strengthening HIV prevention programs and community access to and utilization of HIV prevention services under two different Focus Areas (FA), FA 2, “Strengthening Interventions for HIV Prevention,” and FA 3, “Strengthening Community Access & Utilization of HIV Prevention Services.”

CDC Focus Area 2: Strengthening Interventions for HIV Prevention



We can support you in improving your HIV prevention programs by addressing:

• Translational Research and Adaptation of EBIs
• Program Design and Implementation
• Program Monitoring and Evaluation
• Culturally Appropriate Behavior Change Strategies
• Community-based Research Methods
• Service Coordination and Integration
• Collaboration and Linkages
• Contract and Program Budget Management
• Program Policies and Procedures

CDC Focus Area 3: Strengthening Community Access & Utilization of HIV Prevention Services



Our capacity building assistance can help support your program in the designing and dissemination of:

• Social Marketing
• Health Communication Messaging
• Anti-stigma Campaigns
• Materials and Resources

We are also the lead organization for National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day through the Banyan Tree Project with our partners below. We produce public service announcements and involve the community in ending HIV-related discrimination and stigma.

Click here to find out how HIV-related stigma affects A&PI communities and more about our anti-stigma social marketing campaigns.

Click any of the following to learn more about capacity building assistance, and how we deliver and implement our services.

National CBA Model
Trainings
CBA in the Pacific Island Jurisdictions
Resources

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The Sangam Project

The Sangam Project, funded by the federal Office of Minority Health, is aimed at achieving a more comprehensive and culturally competent approach to health care by ensuring a seamless continuum of prevention, care and treatment for A&PIs at high risk or living with HIV/AIDS in Santa Clara County and integrating this approach into mental health, substance use, primary care, and other community based health and social services.   

The Sangam Project is a collaboration between Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Partners in AIDS Care and Education Clinic and Asian Americans for Community Involvement.  The Sangam Project takes its name from the Sanskrit word meaning “confluence”—a place where many rivers meet and combine.

It builds off of the foundation created by and lessons learned in Santa Clara County from FLARE (Fostering Leadership for Asian & Pacific Islanders through Research and Evaluation), a previously funded capacity building assistance program. 

The Sangam Project:

• Develops Leadership - expanding a cohesive network of the Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Coalition of Santa Clara County.
• Promotes Healthy Behaviors and Service Utilization - improving service delivery through specialized anti-stigma capacity development and sponsoring an Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day event.  
• Documents and Disseminates Best Practices - creating a toolkit of project materials, processes and evaluation methods and presenting lessons learned at regional and national conferences.
• Provides Technical Assistance and Capacity Development - creating group level trainings and giving one-on-one technical assistance based on a comprehensive needs assessment.  

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Request Capacity Building Assistance

If you would like to request CBA, please visit our CBA request form. We will respond to your request within 72 hours. For general CBA related questions, or to find out more, email cba@apiwellness.org.

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California Statewide Treatment & Education Program

California Statewide Treatment Education Program (CSTEP) offers a multi-tiered training and certification program for HIV and HIV-related service providers throughout California.

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