APIAHF: Taxonomy term: APIAHF

Convening Community Leaders

The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities and local community based organizations throughout the United States conducted community outreach, town hall meetings and conferences to determine the top priority health needs of the NHPI community as addressed by its members, chiefs, faith based representatives, business owners and health professionals.

Identifying the Public Health Workforce

Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islanders (NHPI) are underrepresented in most public health occupations in the United States including our U.S. Jurisdictions (if data is even available). The NHPI perspective on health must be fully understood if the needs of NHPI people are to be better met by the health system. Moreover, NHPI people have holistic views of health that incorporate beliefs and values relating to family, culture, and spirituality.

Developing Systems and Improving Strategies

Community Capacity Building continues to develop new systems and to improve specific strategies on data collection, dissemination and analysis of information that will serve as the basis for future advocacy efforts for a diverse Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) population. These capacity building activities will aim to increase an understanding of health data, most importantly, activities that will increase awareness of health and health care disparities of NHPIs.

APIAHF has extensive experience providing capacity building assistance to support health departments in improving the implementation of HIV prevention community planning, as well as in developing Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander leaders to be involved in HIV community planning groups and be effective when "at the table."

Our belief is that to be at the table, individuals must develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate on behalf of their community.

Capacity for Health's, a project of APIAHF, capacity building assistance (CBA) services are available to all community based organizations (CBOs) funded either directly or indirectly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide HIV prevention services.

We provide monitoring and evaluation CBA to CBOs seeking to strengthen their organizational capacity to track the work of their programs as well as to demonstrate their effectiveness.

Capacity for Health (C4H) at APIAHF's capacity building assistance (CBA) services are available to all community based organizations (CBOs) funded either directly or indirectly by the CDC to provide HIV prevention services.

We provide CBA to CBOs seeking to adapt, implement and strengthen their organizations' delivery of evidence-based interventions currently being diffused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Capacity for Health's, a project of APIAHF, capacity building assistance (CBA) services are available to all community based organizations (CBOs) funded either directly or indirectly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide HIV prevention services.

We provide organizational development CBA to CBOs seeking to strengthen their organizational infrastructure and effectiveness.

If your organization is a community based organization (CBO) which is directly funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide HIV prevention services, please talk with your CDC Project Officer prior to submitting a capacity building assistance (CBA) request.

Gayle Tang, MSN, RN is senior director overseeing National Linguistic & Cultural Programs, Institute for Culturally Competent Care and Diversity Infrastructure Management at Kaiser Permanente. She is also a faculty member at City College of San Francisco.

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