Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

For more information, please contact 213 553-1847.

Through collaborative partnerships forged with the Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) and the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center (APIWC) in San Francisco, APAIT develops and implements regionally structure and integrated capacity building systems through technical assistance programming to national, regional and local non-governmental organizations.

Services are broken down in three priority areas:

Priority Area #2: Design, development, implementation and evaluation of effective HIV prevention interventions for racial/minority individuals whose behavior places them at risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV and other STDs.

Examples of Priority Area #2 Capacity Building Services Provided:
• Service Integration
• Effective health communication message development
• Intervention adaptation or replication
• Priority setting for interventions and target populations
• Population-based needs assessment
• Collaboration with researchers
• Development of community-based research methods
• Developing effective staff training

Priority Area #3: Improving the capacity of community stakeholders, including CDC-funded community based organizations (CBOs) to build and strengthen community infrastructure for HIV prevention.

Examples of Priority Area #3 Capacity Building Services Provided:
- Network development
- Policy development and analysis
- Collaboration with health departments
- Media relations
- Community mobilization strategy development
- Community resources inventory development
- Communication network development
- Peer staff support
- Community Organization
- Strategy for community infrastructure development and implementation

Priority Area #4: Improving the capacity of community based organizations (CBOs), community members, and other HIV prevention stakeholders to effectively participate in the HIV/ prevention community planning process.

Examples of Priority Area #4 Capacity Building Services:
- Use of parity, inclusion and representative in the community planning process
- Use of data for decision making
- Public speaking and persuasion
- Group and meeting facilitation
- Public health policy analysis
- Leadership development
- Use of prioritization strategies
- Assertiveness skills
- Consensus building
- Partnerships and coalition building

Services are prioritized for directly funded CDC community based organizations; however, any organizations are welcome to access services. APAIT works with other consultants and capacity building experts to meet your own unique needs.

For more information or to ACCESS SERVICES, please contact (213) 553-1847.