How ready are you to change prevention?

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How ready are you to change prevention?
Preparing an agency for Prevention with Positives
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Goal of Readiness Guide

• Structure the entry conversation
• Cover all areas that could facilitate or impede
  implementation of prevention with positives
  program
• Help identify priorities for workplan
• Not an assessment

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Readiness Guide
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Sections

• P3 Knowledge
• Program Implementation and Evaluation
• Program Options
• Agency Alignment
• Systems

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P3 Knowledge

• Clear working understanding of the goals of P3
• Knowledge of HIV disease progression
• Knowledge of history of P3, history of HIV/AIDS
  prevention and care services in general, and
  history of provision of services to community
  served by agency
• STD knowledge

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P3 Knowledge (cont.)

• Alignment between care and prevention providers
  in their approach to client services
• Substance use and substance abuse methodologies
• Sexual risk reduction methodologies
• Skills at discussing sex and drug use at client
  level

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P3 Knowledge (cont.)

• Viral load and impact on infectivity
• HIV treatment regimens and side effects
• Experience working with HIV individuals

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Program Implementation Evaluation

• Client confidentiality protected
• Client confidentiality standards
• Sexual and drug history discussions
• When first seeking services
• Throughout time seeking services
• Client respect

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Program Implementation Evaluation (cont.)

• Timeliness of service delivery
• Outcomes definition and evaluation experience
• Data collection experience

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Program Options

• HIV prevention
• Primary care and treatment
• STD services
• Substance use/abuse counseling
• Needle exchange

• Mental health
• Housing
• HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection
• Prevention case management

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Agency Alignment

• Current strategic plan in place
• Staff in agreement with strategic plan
• P3 in alignment with strategic plan
• Program design teams
• Staff advocates for client needs throughout
  program implementation
• Programs utilize theory research
• P3 in alignment with Local Health Jurisdiction

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Systems

• Client data access
• Shared client database
• Written referral protocol
• System for referral follow-up
• Program-centered budgeting

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Whats next?

• Consultant writes up
• Key findings
• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• from which a workplan is created.

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How ready is ready?
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Contact information
Prevention with Positives Technical
Assistance Project Serving People of Color
(P3TA) KaraV_at_compasspoint.org (800)
886-2422 www.compasspoint.org