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Texas' HIV/STD Program support for community mobilization: A pathway to comprehensive, coordinated prevention

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Ken Ripperger-Suhler, PhD; CHES , Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas as Austin, Austin, TX
A coordinated, comprehensive community response holds the promise of achieving more effective HIV prevention. We will describe a state health department’s system of theory based capacity building and technical assistance designed to educate contractors and support their efforts to provide coordinated, comprehensive community responses, as well as regional coordination of prevention activities. Gardner’s spectrum of engagement serves as a framework for planning comprehensive prevention efforts. Funding for community mobilization provides a vehicle for coordination of activities. The linkage of social determinants to barriers to individual engagement in the spectrum of engagement provides for the address of health disparities as they relate to HIV/AIDS and other chronic health conditions. The socio-ecologic model is used as a planning tool to increase synergy among programmatic approaches to deal with social determinants. Contractor summits are opportunities for direct sharing of programmatic ideas and brainstorming/development of collaborative efforts. Contractor bulletins, site visits, telephone and email consultations, and online technical support documents give ongoing assistance for program planning, implementation, and evaluation. This presentation will also describe current mobilization projects of great promise. Participants will be invited to discuss relevance to their work in small group discussion. Technical assistance tools will be provided through links to documents.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe a conceptual model that links social determinants of health with domains of the spectrum of engagement for HIV prevention Describe a process for using the socio-ecological framework for maximizing impact on social determinants of health Describe a model community coalition structure that provides for a comprehensive coordinated community response to HIV infections. Describe each of a set of technical assistance tools used to improve contractor comprehension and support program implementation. Describe each of a set of capacity building activities designed to enhance community effectiveness and regional coordination

Keyword(s): HIV/AIDS, Community-Based Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have a PhD in Health Promotion and have taught the graduate class in Theories of Health Behavior at the University of Texas at Austin for the past three years. I have served as a consultant to the Texas DSHS HIV/STD program for the past 4.5 years. I participate in planning, development, and implementation of capacity building and technical assistance activities and resources that Texas DSHS HIV/STD program provides for its community mobilization contractors.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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