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SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements:
Volume 1, Issue 4 (June 1, 1996)
This document has been superceded by our Online Knowledge Base on Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care. Click here to access the Knowledge Base. Click here to access descriptions of 27 Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care and the lessons learned from these projects. SPNS/Fax was written, published, and distributed by fax by The Measurement Group between 1995 and 1998. |
Information dissemination from 27 Innovative Models of HIV Care projects funded as Special Projects of National Significance by the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Introduction
Welcome to SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements. In each issue of SPNS/Fax, we will highlight findings from the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Program Cooperative Agreements. The projects have been funded to develop innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. SPNS/Fax reports are distributed every two weeks by fax machine to all subscribers. All issues of SPNS/Fax are also available at this Web site. Due to slight differences in the media, issues distributed by fax machine may appear slightly different from those posted on this Web site, but the content is identical.
HIV Innovative Models of Care: Progress During the First Year
In 1994, HRSA/HAB's SPNS funded an HIV Innovative Model of Care initiative consisting of the organizations listed in the diagram below. Each of the cooperative agreement projects brings unique expertise, resources, and information to the Steering Committee. In the first project year, representatives developed mechanisms for sharing project expertise, methods, and resources. The Steering Committee employed a number of techniques for improving communication, engaging in project cross-training, sharing costs of developing shared evaluation methods, and exchanging information needed by several projects. The Steering Committee developed a group process mechanism (shown below). The information brought to this process is shared to develop common objectives, share materials and resources, and conduct common evaluation activities. These activities, in turn, contribute to a group feedback process in which these issues are brought back to the individual cooperative agreement projects as well as the larger HIV service community. Finally, the information sharing process serves as a quality improvement mechanism for the participants in the SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee and its Work Groups so that the overall group process is self-monitoring.
This summary is abstracted from a staff paper developed by the SPNS program. For copies, contact the SPNS Program at Room 7A-07, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, 301.443.9481.
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