Technical Assistance Directory

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program offers training and technical assistance (TA, like manuals, webinars, phone assistance) to support recipients in key areas. This directory is of active (meaning currently funded) TA projects, organized by primary topic area. Completed initiatives can be found in the archive. Resources are listed on TA pages and are housed in the TargetHIV Library (by topic/sub-topic).

Ending the HIV Epidemic

  • TAP-in: Technical Assistance Provider-innovation network

    TAP-in supports the 47 EHE jurisdictions funded by HRSA to strengthen their EHE work plans, promote cross-jurisdictional learning, and ensure jurisdictions have access to the resources they need. Project period: 2020-2025.

  • EHE Systems Coordination Provider
    The SCP delivers TA aimed at strengthening healthcare system engagement in local EHE efforts by supporting the coordination of planning activities, alignment of funding sources, and program implementation. Project period: 2020-2025.

Program & Grant Management

  • HRSA Project Officers

    HRSA recipients first point-of-contact for managing federal grants and accessing training and technical assistance.

  • CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHAC)
    The CHAC advises the Secretary, HHS, Director of CDC, and Administrator of HRSA, regarding objectives, strategies, policies, and priorities for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STD prevention and treatment efforts. /sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/CHAC_Workgroup_Presentations.pdf /sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/CHAC_Agenda_Nov_2022.pdf

AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)

  • ADAP Technical Assistance

    TA and training on administration of Ryan White ADAPs and Part B planning and management. Project period: 2022-2027.

Clinical Quality Management

Data & Reporting (CAREWare, RSR, ADR, EHB, CDR, EHE, HIVQM, AETC)

Health Coverage

  • ACE TA Center
    Capacity building for the RWHAP community to navigate the changing health care landscape and help people with HIV to access and use their health coverage to improve health outcomes. Project period: 2022-2025.

HIV Care Innovations

  • Best Practices Compilation
    Initiative documenting best practice strategies and interventions that have been shown to improve HIV outcomes in a "real world" setting and can be replicated by other programs. Project period: 2021-2024.
  • Black MSM Initiative
    SPNS-sponsored project to evaluate four evidence-informed behavioral health interventions and/or models of care to engage, link, and retain Black MSM with HIV in medical care and supportive services. Project period: 2018-2022.
  • Black Women First Initiative
    Design, implementation, and evaluation of bundled evidence–informed interventions for Black women with HIV. Project period: 2020-2024.
  • Building Capacity to Implement Rapid ART Start for Improved Care Engagement in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
    SPNS initiative on implementation and evaluation of interventions that accelerate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (Rapid Start). Project period: 2020-2023.
  • Center for Innovation and Engagement
    CIE identifies, catalogs, and disseminates evidence-informed interventions that link, re-engage, and retain people with HIV in care, and supports the real-world replication of these interventions to help end the HIV epidemic.
  • Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions

    Initiative that created four evidenced-informed Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs) that are replicable, cost-effective, capable of producing optimal HIV care continuum outcomes, and easily adaptable to the changing health care environment. Project period: 2015-2020.

  • Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i)

    Implementation and evaluation of evidence-informed interventions to reduce HIV-related health disparities and improve health outcomes. Focus on transgender women, Black MSM, behavioral health integration, addressing trauma. TA provided to 26 RWHAP agencies. Project period: 2017-2022.

  • IHIP: Integrating HIV Innovative Practices

    Adaptation of HRSA HAB SPNS program insights into practical resources. Disseminates T/TA resources.

  • Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment among People with or at Risk for HIV

    Developing and field-testing tools for improving STI screening in people with HIV and those at risk of acquiring HIV. Project period: 2018-2022.

  • Innovative Intervention Strategies (2iS)
    HRSA SPNS project applying the implementation science framework to identify innovative HIV interventions for three priority populations (people with substance use disorder, sexual minority youth, people involved in criminal justice system) and use of telehealth. Project period: 2021-2025.
  • Rapid ART Dissemination Assistance Provider
    Project to facilitate the implementation of Rapid ART initiation in RWHAP provider settings by compiling and disseminating implementation resources nationwide. Project period: 2020-2023.
  • Rapid Uptake of Disseminated Interventions (RUDI)
    Assessment of how, where, and why dissemination products are accessed and used, as well as the utility and performance of the products created under SPNS- and TA-funded initiatives. Project period: 2022-2025.
  • Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV & Opioid Use Disorder

    Technical assistance across HIV and behavioral health/substance use service providers to enhance system-level coordination and networks of care among RWHAP recipients and other federal, state, and local entities. Project period: 2019-2022.

  • Supporting Replication (SURE) of Housing Interventions in the RWHAP
    SPNS initiative on development of housing-related intervention strategies for three populations with HIV experiencing unstable housing: LGBTQ+; people ages 13-24); and people who have been justice involved. Project period: 2022-2025.
  • Telehealth Strategies to Maximize HIV Care
    Identify and maximize the use of telehealth strategies that are most effective in HIV care. Project period: 2022-2025.
  • The HIV, Housing & Employment Project

    SPNS project that supported the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions that coordinated HIV care and treatment, housing, and employment services. Project period: 2017-2022.

HIV Clinician Training & Support

  • AETC National Coordinating Resource Center
    The central hub of the AETC Program, the clinical training arm of the RWHAP, through HIV curricula, technical support to regional AETCs on practice transformation and best practices, and housing of all AETC-developed tools for HIV clinical staff. Project period: 2019-2024.
  • National Clinician Consultation Center

    Clinician consultation on HCV management, HIV management, perinatal HIV/AIDS, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis, substance use. Project period: 2016-2025.

  • National HIV Curriculum e-Learning Platform
    The NHC provides ongoing, up-to-date information needed to meet the core competency knowledge for HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment and care to healthcare providers in the United States. Project period: 2020-2022.
  • Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers
    The AETC Program offers clinician education and tailored capacity-building assistance. Project period: 2019-2024.

People with HIV & Community Involvement

  • ELEVATE

    ELEVATE will prepare people with HIV to meaningfully engage and take on leadership roles in planning bodies, advocacy actions, and the HIV workforce. Project period: 2020-2024.

  • ESCALATE

    ESCALATE will focus on reducing HIV stigma through training participants in EHE jurisdictions. Project period: 2020-2024.

Planning and Planning Bodies

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