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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's
Special Projects of National Significance [1994 - 1999]:
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
Completed
by: Lisa
A. Melchior, Ph.D.
Last
Updated: July 1999
| Achievement 1: Provided legal advocacy services to throughout the State of Michigan. | ||
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Key
Elements for Motivation to avoid costly litigation by providing early intervention |
Factors that Limited a) Great distances sometimes traveled by program staff to provide technical assistance. b) Two-year project limited the number of cases that the staff could take on. |
Factors
that Ensured a) Having a committed staff. b) Having a referral service to other agencies. c) Having MPAS personnel provide ongoing support, updated information, and technical assistance to community advocates. d) Developing and maintaining relationships with policy makers, providers, and representatives of various HIV impacted populations. |
| Achievement 2: Recruited 100 lawyers into attorney network for HIV advocacy, thus increasing referral network. | ||
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Key
Elements for a) Training and education for community advocates. b) Linkages with other health and human services programs. c) Agency outreach. |
Factors that Limited |
Factors that Ensured a) Having a committed staff. b) Having a referral service to other agencies. c) Having MPAS personnel provide ongoing support, updated information, and technical assistance to community advocates. d) Developing and maintaining relationships with policy makers, providers, and representatives of various HIV impacted populations. |
| Achievement 3: Increased community awareness about legal rights of people with HIV by providing training to 236 service providers and consumers. | ||
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Key
Elements for a) Ability of program staff to provide training on HIV legal concepts in a comprehensive, yet easy to understand manner. b) Successful outreach strategies to individuals and service provider agencies. |
Factors that Limited a) Getting the word out about consumer trainings took some time to gain momentum. b) Involving non-HIV specific programs to sponsor trainings or identify potential participants. c) Great distances sometimes traveled by program staff to provide trainings. d) Difficulty in overcoming myths held by people about HIV. |
Factors that Ensured a) Having a committed staff. b) Having MPAS personnel provide ongoing support, updated information, and technical assistance to community advocates. c) Developing and maintaining relationships with policy makers, providers, and representatives of various HIV impacted populations. |
Lessons Learned from this Project
Project Index for Achievements and Lessons Learned
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
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