A PIAHF provides assistance both with supporting Health Departments to improve 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 (CPGs) and be effective when “at the table”.  APIAHF’s development of best practice guides, manuals and trainings focus on improving parity, inclusion and representation of communities of color in HIV prevention community planning.  In addition, APIAHF staff has many years of combined experience serving on CPGs themselves, enabling them to provide Health Departments with guidance around various topic areas from Robert’s Rules of Order to developing a prioritized list of target populations.  

FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

APIAHF staff has a combined 9 years of experience as members of community planning groups, which gives us a unique perspective to help support Health Departments in improving their implementation of HIV prevention community planning.

In our over 10 years of experience providing community planning related capacity building assistance, APIAHF has developed curricula and offered trainings which include the following:

• An orientation to community planning
• Developing a list of prioritized target populations
• Improving parity, inclusion and representation
• Recruitment of underrepresented populations for community planning
• Facilitation
• Leadership training for co-chairs
• Communicating for change
• Navigating the CPG Process (includes information about Robert’s Rules of Order)
• Interpreting Data
• Building Alliances Across Communities    

What you can expect:

As capacity building assistance providers, APIAHF staff is dedicated to assisting Health Departments that seek to improve their implementation of the community planning process. Through our partnership, we aim to address your community planning group’s immediate needs, provide appropriate capacity building assistance and leave you with increased knowledge and skill to address similar issues in the future.

Our Values:

Respect, trust, integrity and confidentiality are core values that drive our client-centered relationship and work together. Due to the nature of sensitive information exchange in the capacity building process, we make every effort to incorporate the highest degree of confidentiality. We do not use or share client information for any purpose other than that which is directly related to the capacity building process and expect that all involved parties will take the necessary steps to ensure that their agents, employees and consultants similarly adhere to our standards of confidentiality and core values.

We intend to foster and maintain comfortable and productive working relationships between health departments, community planning group members, capacity building assistance providers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

How we work:

For each capacity building engagement, APIAHF commits to the following:

• Develop clear and shared expectations of the future outcome(s) of the working relationship.

• Create a practical and useful planning document (i.e. work plan) that clearly outlines the tasks, deliverables and schedule of tasks/deliverables, which are required to achieve the client’s goals.

• Implement the workplan in a timely manner.

• Evaluate the CBA process, relationship, and results upon completion of the workplan.

FOR ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HIV PREVENTION PLANNING GROUP (CPG) MEMBERS, OR THOSE INTERESTED IN JOINING A CPG:

APIAHF provides 3 levels of our Fostering Advocacy and Community Empowerment Skills (FACES) trainings, as well as individual coaching for CPG members interested in increasing their effectiveness when “at the table”.

The FACES trainings are split up according to experience level.

• Basic Level FACES training (for new CPG members or for those who intend to apply to become a CPG member).

Basic FACES Training Goals

To increase Asian & Pacific Islander participation in HIV prevention community planning by:

• Introducing potential community planning group (aka CPG) members to the fundamentals of the CPG process
• Building the capacity of new CPG members to participate fully and effectively in the CPG process

• Intermediate Level FACES Training (for folks who have been on their CPGs for at least 1 year or who have attended our Basic training).

Intermediate FACES Training Goals

To increase Asian & Pacific Islander participation in HIV prevention community planning by:

• Building the capacity of API CPG members to identify API PIR gaps and strategize methods to address these gaps

• Continuing to develop API CPG members’ core skills that are necessary to participate fully in the CPG process

• Advanced Level FACES Training (for more experienced CPG members in leadership positions, or who are interested in stepping into a leadership position on their CPG).

Advanced FACES Training Goals

To increase effective Asian & Pacific Islander leadership in HIV prevention community planning by:

• Strengthening the leadership skills of experienced API CPG members according to Kouzes & Posner’s Leadership Challenge framework

• Increasing self efficacy of experienced API CPG members related to leadership in community planning

• Increasing the knowledge and skills of experienced API CPG members in regards to CPG meeting facilitation  

If you’re interested in attending one of our FACES training or to inquire about individual coaching for CPG members, please contact Mazdak Mazarei by email at mmazareiatapiahfdotorg or cal 415.568.3329.