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Sufia Dadabhai, MHS¹, Jury Candelario², John Caranto², Nick Truong², and Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH³. (1) Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 307 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21211, 2023092119, sdadabha@jhsph.edu, (2) Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, 605 W. Olympic Boulevard, Suite 610, Los Angeles, CA 90015, (3) Director, J&J Community HealthCare Scholars Program, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202

Background: While knowledge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US may be widespread, its impacts on certain groups, including the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community, are seldom recognized. The Department of HHS believes that working through community-based organizations is the best way to serve APIs with HIV/AIDS. Many face serious language, immigration, cultural, and financial barriers to health care. The Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) is working to improve opportunities for high-acuity, HIV+ APIs to live healthy, self-sufficient, and comfortable lives by increasing access to public services, encouraging risk-reduction behaviors, and fostering support systems. As the case management program grows, so does the need to measure its effects on the quality of life of its clients. Methods: A community-academic partnership, with funding from the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program, has been established to train staff to design and conduct a program evaluation, including the development of a conceptual framework, survey design, data base creation, analysis, and presentation. The methods emphasize a hands-on, participatory approach. Results: After two years of collaboration, APAIT will have developed its in-house capacity to implement an evaluation based in theory and practice, increasing its ability to measure effectiveness and make programmatic improvements. Conclusion: Community-based organizations are critical to caring for APIs with HIV. They depend on demonstrating impact in order to sustain themselves and grow. Community-academic partnerships are a promising way to empower organizations to meet their evaluation needs and satisfy stakeholder expectations, while providing an invaluable field experience for academic partners.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participants will be able to

• List three ways in which a conceptual framework is a valuable tool for program evaluation.
• Describe how a community-academic partnership can benefit both organizations and academic partners.
• Discuss challenges of the participatory evaluation process and possible solutions.

Keywords: Evaluation, Community-Based Partnership

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation