SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements:
Volume 2, Issue 1 (January 10, 1997)

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.

Cooperative Agreement Projects Present Innovative Training Models

The joint activities of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Training Work Group were highlighted at the Xth International Conference on AIDS Education, which took place in November 1996 in Atlanta. The Training Work Group is a collaborative effort of eight grantees, HRSA, and the Evaluation and Dissemination Center. The common thread among the Training Work Group projects is that they provide state-of-the-art training in HIV care to health service providers and others using innovative training methods. Training provided by participating projects used methods ranging from self-study, lectures, and preceptorships to multimedia and other interactive approaches. The types of issues addressed by the training projects range from HIV transmission prevention to medical intervention and treatment, psychosocial issues, case management, special populations, workplace issues, and community empowerment.

The Training Work Group includes the following diverse projects located throughout the United States:

The Cook County Maternal Child Health (Chicago) project provides training to health care professionals that focuses on the provision of HIV education counseling and testing to women and children in the Chicago area.

The Emory University (Atlanta) project works within the Georgia corrections system to train health care providers about HIV/AIDS.

The Health Initiatives for Youth (San Francisco) project provides training and technical assistance to health and social service providers in the San Francisco Bay area to improve HIV-related services for young people.

The Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York) project provides training about HIV/AIDS to Latino physicians in New York City using a model in which the education is provided by other Latino physicians.

The University of Colorado Medical Center (Denver) project provides HIV/AIDS training to educators and service providers from an eight-state region, seeking to improve and standardize HIV/AIDS service delivery to rural areas.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson) project provides training to physicians, dentists, and nurses in both rural and urban settings throughout Mississippi, and includes the use of a computer-based distance learning system.

The University of Texas Medical Center (San Antonio) project provides training to a network of geographically dispersed service providers in South Texas, that is designed to improve models of HIV/AIDS service provision for women and children.

The University of Washington Medical School (Seattle) project provides training on neuropsychiatric illness associated with HIV/AIDS to health care practitioners, specifically emphasizing the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of delirium.

In addition to each project developing its own innovative methods, all projects meet as a group to develop common evaluation techniques through consensus on parameters of training, evaluation goals and methods, and products to describe trainings and their outcomes. As part of their data collection and evaluation activities, the projects collect comparable data (using short evaluation modules) about their trainings so that information may be pooled.

The figure above is one example of the types of data available on the group of training projects. Training data pooled from all projects showed that 90.2% of the participants indicated it was worth their time and effort to attend the trainings, and that 86.6% would recommend a similar training to their peers. The cross-cutting evaluation data show that the eight projects have trained a diverse group of individuals with great perceived success by the individuals trained. The innovative training methods developed at each of the eight sites are currently being assembled into an "Art of HIV Training Manual" expected to be available in 1997.

For more information, contact The Measurement Group – PROTOTYPES Evaluation and Dissemination Center, 5811A Uplander Way, Culver City, CA 90230. The full presentation described here may be viewed on this site (click on the "Presentations" button).

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