How ready are you to change prevention?

1. How ready are you to change prevention? Preparing an agency for Prevention with Positives

2. 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

3. Readiness Guide

4. Sections • P3 Knowledge • Program Implementation and Evaluation • Program Options • Agency Alignment • Systems

5. 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

6. 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

7. P3 Knowledge (cont.) • Viral load and impact on infectivity • HIV treatment regimens and side effects • Experience working with HIV+ individuals

8. Program Implementation & Evaluation • Client confidentiality protected • Client confidentiality standards • Sexual and drug history discussions • When first seeking services • Throughout time seeking services • Client respect

9. Program Implementation & Evaluation (cont.) • Timeliness of service delivery • Outcomes definition and evaluation experience • Data collection experience

10. 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 Program Options

11. 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

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

13. What’s next? Consultant writes up: • Key findings • Conclusions • Recommendations …from which a workplan is created.

14. How ready is ready?

15. Contact information Prevention with Positives Technical Assistance Project Serving People of Color (P3TA) KaraV@compasspoint.org (800) 886-2422 www.compasspoint.org