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Federal Training Centers Collaboration

Federal Training Centers Collaboration. Or how many TCs does it take… 3TCs, 4TCs, XTCs?. Presented by Barbara Schechtman, MATEC (Midwest AETC), June 24, 2009. What is the FTCC?.

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Federal Training Centers Collaboration

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  1. Federal Training Centers Collaboration Or how many TCs does it take… 3TCs, 4TCs, XTCs? Presented by Barbara Schechtman, MATEC (Midwest AETC), June 24, 2009

  2. What is the FTCC? • An initiative to increase collaboration among federally funded training centers with overlapping or related missions. • Includes RTCs, PTCs, AETCs, ATTCs, and Hepatitis and TB Training Centers

  3. FTCC Goals • Increase training collaboration in overlapping focus areas of STD/HIV prevention and treatment, family planning/reproductive health, and substance use prevention. • Maximize the use of training resources.

  4. Federal Work Group • Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health, and Division of STD Prevention • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral Hepatitis • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination • Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning • Office of Public Health and Science, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

  5. National Meetings and Funding • 2002 - 3 TCs met in San Francisco • 2004 - 3½ TCs met in New Orleans • 2006 - 4 TCs met in Albuquerque • 2008 - XTCs met in New Orleans • 2009 - FTCC born; funding follows • Between national meetings, groups hold regular planning calls and annual face-to-face meetings

  6. Midwest Region Workgroup • Region V RTC (HCET) • Region VII RTC (DSI) • St. Louis PTC I (Washington University) • Cincinnati PTC I (Cincinnati Health Department) • Central Quadrant PTC II (Denver Public Health) • Central Quadrant PTC III (Colorado Dept. of Public Hlth.) • Midwest AETC (University of Illinois at Chicago) • Kansas AETC (University of Kansas) • Great Lakes ATTC (University of Illinois at Chicago) • Prairielands ATTC (University of Iowa) • Mid-America ATTC (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

  7. Joint projects to Date • HIV Screening in Women’s Health (2002 and 2007) (AETC and RTC) • Ask, Screen, Intervene (AETCs and PTCs) • Secondary Data Needs Assessment (AETCs, RTCs, ATTCs, PTCs) • Healing the Stigma of Depression (AETC and ATTC)

  8. New Opportunity • In October 2008, the Federal Work Group for the FTCC applied to the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) to fund regional FTCC collaborative projects. • It was approved!

  9. Funded (we hope) Regional Project! • The Goal is to help health care providers address the high rates of HIV among African American women • We will together produce: • Short educational modules (1-3 minutes) • Enhanced web-based learning programs • At least two collaborative training ventures.

  10. So…How many does it take? • The six TCs serving our region include 13 different agencies. (We are looking to add the TB and Hepatitis folks.) • We have been successful in pulling together as a group. • Sharing information, ideas, resources has happened. • Relationships and collegiality have grown. • It’s a good idea….and it’s fun.

  11. Contacts • Barbara Schechtman, barbs@uic.edu • Karen Sherman, ksherman@hcet.org • Barbara Boylan, barbara.boylan@cincinnati-oh.gov

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