National Projects (and projects spanning more than
one region)
- Family Planning Training and Technical Assistance
(FPT & TA) - HIV Integration into Reproductive Health Care
- Infertility Prevention Project (IPP)
- Institutes for Community/Sexual Health Educators (ICHEs)
- Lotus Project (HRSA funded Peer Education Training Site (PETS))
- Male Family Planning Research
- Supporting HIV Integration into Primary Care Settings in Indian Country
Region VI (TX, NM, OK, LA, AR)
- HIV/AIDS Prevention for Women Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions
- Learning Group Approaches to HIV Integration
- Prison Inmate Peer Project
- Texas Infertility Prevention Project (TIPP)
Region IX (AZ, CA, NV, HI, Pacific Basin)
- Client-centered HIV Prevention Project
- East Bay AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC)
- Family Child Care Association Development & Provider Training Project
- Integrating HIV and Other Prevention Services Into Reproductive Health
- Supporting Implementation of HIV Rapid Testing in Labor and Delivery (RTLD)
Region X (WA, OR, ID, AK)
National Projects
Family Planning Training and Technical Assistance (FPT & TA)
These projects in Regions VI, IX and X are funded by the DHHS Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning. They meet the training needs of family planning clinic staff at all levels with a primary goal to increase knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the management and delivery of quality client services. Workshops, retreats, conferences (both onsite or via telephone and satellite downlink) are specifically designed to address training needs of clinic personnel in each region.
HIV Integration into Reproductive Health Care
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control, this project is intended to assist federally funded family planning agencies to integrate HIV-related services into their services in a client centered manner. The focus is on improving the abilities of staff to provide client-centered HIV services, including prevention education, counseling and testing
Goals of this project: (1) to increase organizational motivation and capacity to deliver reproductive health and HIV prevention services in a culturally appropriate and integrated manner; and, (2) to increase the ability of agency staff to provide culturally appropriate risk assessment and client-centered HIV prevention education and counseling.
Each of our Regions has a project under this funding.
- Region VI: Learning Group Approach to HIV Integration
- Region IX: Integrating HIV and Other Prevention Services Into Reproductive Health
- Region X: HIV Integration Project (HIP)
Infertility Prevention Project (IPP)
CHT manages the Infertility Prevention Project in US Public Health Service Regions VI, IX, and X. As part of the CDC's national effort, our regional IPPs oversee chlamydia and gonorrhea screening and treatment services for women and their partners attending family planning, STD, and other community-based healthcare agencies. The projects' long-term goals are to reduce Chlamydia and gonorrhea prevalence and associated reproductive health outcomes, such as pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and unintended infertility.
Institutes for Community/Sexual Health Educators (ICHEs)
Institutes for Community/Sexual Health Educators (ICHEs, pronounced "itches") are designed to increase knowledge and build skills needed to deliver comprehensive, culturally proficient, medically accurate sexuality education. ICHEs provide residential, intensive, skill-based training for sexuality, STD/HIV, and family planning educators working in schools or community-based organizations.
Lotus Project (HRSA funded Peer Education Training Site (PETS))
THE LOTUS PROJECT is a women's HIV peer educator training project. The Lotus Project is a collaborative effort involving the Center for Health Training (CHT) and Women Organized to Respond to Life Threatening Disease (WORLD) to develop and implement Peer Education Trainings around the country. The program targets women and provides an opportunity for a community centered approach to address the disproportionate impact of HIV within this population. The Lotus Project is a five-year national project funded through the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) which seeks to collaborate with local community partners (organizations serving HIV positive women) to implement the peer education training, as well as to provide capacity building assistance to incorporate peer educators into care teams.
Male Family Planning Research
CHT in collaboration with the DHHS, Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning, is coordinating and participating in a multi-site research study evaluating the effectiveness and replicabllity of a comprehensive family planning service delivery model for males. The model includes restructuring clinic environments, training clinic staff and implementing targeted community outreach and promotion of services, with the goal of increasing the number of males who access family planning and related reproductive health services in clinical settings. Each study site is a collaborative effort among Title X service providers, their delegate agencies and community partners.
Supporting HIV Integration into Primary Care Settings in Indian Country
Building on the HIV Integration into Reproductive Health Care project (described above), this supplement was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for one year to develop the capacity of primary health care settings serving American Indians and Alaska Natives to effectively integrate HIV prevention services. This will be accomplished by providing HIV integration training and technical assistance to organizations implementing HIV services. Technical assistance will be provided to one urban health care site in California and one tribal health care site in Alaska. Additionally, training will be done to help providers and training agencies learn more about HIV integration in Indian Country.
Region VI Projects
HIV/AIDS Prevention for Women Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions
This is a women's HIV peer education training project for women enrolled at minority colleges and universities. CHT collaborates with HBCUs and HSIs in the Southwest Region to develop and implement gender and race/ethnic specific behavioral interventions that provide HIV/STI transmission information, opportunities for social skills development, and foster supportive social networks. The overall goal of the project is to empower young college women to discuss HIV/AIDS prevention in a safe, supportive, and effective manner which truly addresses their needs and concerns.
Learning Group Approach to HIV Integration
CHT has designed and evaluated a highly-effective process in which we train, coach and support leadership teams from a limited number of agencies to increase HIV integration within their own agencies.
Prison Inmate Peer Project
Since 2001
Audience:
Prison inmates
Goals and Objectives:
Through collaboration with correctional systems, community-based organizations and other stakeholders, our goal is to improve prison inmates' understanding of and access to health care, while in prison and upon release.
Texas Infertility Prevention Project (TIPP)
Since 2002
Project goals: To coordinate and administer the Infertility Prevention Project for the state of Texas. Includes data management, resource allocation, administrative and clinical quality assurance, training and technical assistance, participate in Region VI IPP meetings, and act as liaison between DSHS and TIPP screening sites.
Project's intended audience/clients: TIPP screening sites
Project partners: Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) family planning, STD and laboratory
Project funding source: Texas DSHS STD
Web site: www.dshs.state.tx.us/hivstd/tipp/default.shtm
Region IX Projects
Client-centered HIV Prevention Project
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control, this project is intended to assist federally funded family planning agencies to improve their HIV-related services. The focus is on improving the abilities of staff to provide client-centered HIV services, including prevention education, counseling and testing
East Bay AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC)
Core Grant July 2005 - June 2010;
Minority AIDS Initiative July 2008 - June 2010
The East Bay AETC is federally funded by Part F of the Ryan White Care Act (RWCA) to provide training and technical assistance to healthcare providers working with HIV positive patients in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties.
Family Child Care Association Development & Provider Training Project
Fall 2008 - Summer 2010
The Family Child Care Association Development & Provider Training Project supports high quality family child care in California. The purpose of the project is to enhance the quality of services provided to families and children and to improve the retention of family child care providers in California. These goals will be accomplished by providing training to family child care providers, awarding grants to local family child care associations to support capacity building based on local providers' need, and supporting the professional development of local family child care associations, especially targeting counties where these services do not currently exist. This project is funded by the California Department of Education, Child Development Division.
Family Child Care Associations Grants Program 2009
- To download a copy of the application, please click here for a PDF or here for a Word document.
- To download a copy of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the Grants Program, please click here (PDF).If you have any additional questions or need further clarification, contact us (see below)—we are happy to continue responding to questions individually.
If you have any questions about the Association Development & Provider Training Project, email us at FCCTraining at jba-cht.com
Integrating HIV and Other Prevention Services Into Reproductive Health
October 2005 - September 2009
This project provides training and technical assistance to family planning agencies in DHHS Region IX. The 5-year Cooperative Agreement is funded by the Centers for Disease Control to help Family Planning Agencies provide HIV services more effectively. CHT directs training and technical assistance to a "Model Clinic" and other clinics to explore the ingredients for successful HIV Services Integration into Family Planning agencies. The information gathered is being organized into an HIV Integration Toolkit and will be disseminated throughout the region after completion.
Natural Family Planning Research Project
Funded by the Office of Population Affairs, the purpose of the Natural Family Planning Research Project is to expand the body of knowledge regarding the reasons why family planning clients choose the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM), specifically the Standard Days Method using CycleBeads, and what the predictors of success are among these clients. In conjunction with Georgetown University's Institute of Reproductive Health, CHT will conduct research at two California clinics to identify and evaluate innovative strategies that could lead to increased or improved utilization of this method, and to increase knowledge and support for individuals and couples wishing to use it.
Supporting Implementation of HIV Rapid Testing in Labor and Delivery (RTLD)
May 2006 - April 2008
This project is funded by the California State Office of AIDS to build the capacity of hospitals in Northern California to provide HIV rapid testing in Labor and Delivery. There are three regions (East Bay, San Francisco, South Bay) utilizing a multi-disciplinary staff (including a doctor and nurse practitioner) to provide training and technical assistance to hospital staff.
Region X Projects
Adolescent Reproductive Health
The goal of this project is to build capacity of local organizations in the Pacific Northwest to select, implement and evaluate science-based approaches (SBA) to prevent teen pregnancy and STD/HIV, and to promote adolescent reproductive health. Toward this end we work closely with local partners, including youth-serving organizations and health clinics, providing needs and assets assessment, training, technical assistance, evaluation and materials dissemination. Each activity is part of an overall plan that will result in the selection, implementation and evaluation of science-based approaches and programs.
HIV Integration Project
CHT's outcome goal for the HIV Prevention Integration Project is to increase the capacity of reproductive health settings to integrate client-centered HIV counseling and testing services by: 1) increasing the number of reproductive health settings that integrate HIV counseling and testing, and 2) increasing the number of staff working in reproductive health settings who counsel using client-centered counseling skills. In support of these goals, CHT utilizes HIV Prevention Integration Champions to lead the organization and assist staff in a systems change approach. Efforts include in-depth collaboration, agency capacity and staff assessments, technical assistance, training, evaluation, and implementation plan for system change. Project Partners include:
- Mount Baker Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood of Central Washington
- Family Planning Chelan-Douglas
Natural Family Planning (NFP) Research Study
The Center for Health Training (CHT) is one of seven national sites awarded a grant by the DHHS/Office of Population Affairs to conduct research on Natural Family Planning (NFP) in Region X.
REACH
The purpose of the REACH US program at the Center for Health Training (CHT) is to work with key REACH partners to develop their capacity to implement the REACH training curriculum. Partners will train and provide technical assistance to community organizations, faith settings, and small businesses in order to eliminate the disparities in diabetes experienced by African Americans, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, and Latinos/Hispanics.
Smoking Cessation
The Oregon Department of Human Services awarded the Center for Health Training a contract to conduct workshops on the 5A Model and Motivational Interviewing. The series of 8 training events for Maternal Case Management nurses, supervisors and community partners, will begin in mid-May and conclude at the end of June. The 5A Model—Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange—is promoted by the US Surgeon General and the Public Health Service as a method for medical care providers in clinical settings to use with their patients who use tobacco. Motivational Interviewing has been used extensively in the addiction and prevention fields. This client-centered, directive approach helps professionals combine their bio-medical knowledge and empathy for the complexities for change in a conversational but intentional interview style.
Title X Family Planning Data Management System
The Region X Title X Family Planning (FP) Data Management System collects, analyzes, and distributes FP clinic client visit data. It provides clinic managers and other stakeholders with summary reports on client medical, laboratory, counseling and contraceptive methods used. The data management system is overseen by the Region X FP Information Subcommittee and the Regional Information System Manager.
Technical Assistance/Service Assistance
The goal of this project is to provide Title X family planning programs with Technical Assistance (TA). Center for Health Training's role is to coordinate TA consultants and on site delivery of services to the agencies. CHT utilizes a network of specialized consultants and in-house staff for these requests.
Featured Project
LOTUS PROJECT: A Women's HIV/AIDS Peer Educator Training Project
The Lotus Project is a collaboration between The Center for Health Training (CHT) and Women Organized to Respond to Life Threatening Disease (WORLD) to develop and implement Peer Advocacy Education Trainings around the country. The program targets women and provides an opportunity for a community centered approach to address the disproportionate impact of HIV among this population in the US. (more »)
DHHS Regions
Since much of our work relates to the Federal Government's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), references made to "Regions" correspond to the 10 DHHS geographical regions covering the entire U.S. In various places, we have listed the respective States covered by each DHHS region in which we operate.
