Planning

HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau guidance webinars that further explain various policy notices and program letters for grant recipients of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

The webinar will help PC/PBs and RWHAP recipients identify points of tension and select appropriate approaches to manage and work through those points of tension.

This webinar focused on strategies to improve recruitment and retention of new PC/PB members. Speakers provided insights into the legislatively required membership categories, presented a recommended process for bringing on new members, and shared best and promising practices such as establishing consumer trust and effective, ongoing orientation throughout the year.

Learn about the needs assessment process that RWHAP Part A planning councils/planning bodies conduct annually. The webinar includes a case study on consumer leadership of the needs assessment process.

Learn about the duties and roles of RWHAP Part A planning council/planning body members, planning council support staff, and RWHAP Part A recipients.

Review of the Care Continuum Learning Collaborative (CCLC), a HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau technical assistance and training initiative to strengthen and improve the HIV Care Continuum within Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).

Strategies to identify roles and responsibilities for implementing your five-year Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan.

Discussion of how programs can use HIV laboratory surveillance data to identify persons who have fallen out of care in order to guide re-linkage efforts (Data to Care).

The Training Guide is designed to help planning councils/planning bodies conduct orientation and ongoing training to prepare members to participate fully in RWHAP Part A planning and decision making.

Example of a spreadsheet used to track performance on HIV prevention program metrics, including PrEP navigation, HIV tests, condom distribution, and behavioral interventions. The first tab on the spreadsheets provides a dashboard for easy-to-read visuals on each performance metric.

Example of an easy to understand infographic report with visuals about  PrEP navigation services in Arizona. Used to provide updates to the HIV Statewide Advisory Group and Community Health Planning & Strategies Committee (RWHAP Part A).

The IHAP TAC —using criteria based on the Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan Guidance, including the SCSN— selected Integrated Plan sections that are examples of strong responses to the Guidance to be used as examples or models for jurisdictions updating their integrated plan.

Example of an Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan work plan, including details of activity, parties responsible, partners, timelines, and performance measures.

Workbooks for RWHAP planning bodies and other entities to self-assess their effectiveness.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services distilled their 130 page Wisconsin Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan into a ten page and one page summary.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services distilled their 130 page Wisconsin Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan into a ten page overview and one page summary.

Data reports, slide decks, and infographics on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).

This document includes all of the financial and service data which the Philadelphia EMA Planning Council uses in order to make resource allocation decisions for Part A funds.

The Multnomah County (Portland, OR) Part A recipient has a process for working collaboratively with their Planning Council, using a scorecard which shows how funds were allocated and cost and care outcomes.

This article presents lessons learned from implementation of a RA model for evidence-based HIV prevention interventions, with the objective of averting new HIV infections.

This report provides a summary of the federal, state, and local funding sources available to support HIV services within the Boston RWHAP EMA in 2016. Results from the report were used by the Boston EMA Planning Council to make resource allocation decisions.

This issue brief describes important changes occurring in the U.S. health care system that are improving access to health care for thousands of people living with HIV in the U.S.

This article describes a data-driven decision making methodology called the “Robust Decision Making Approach.” 

This article describes a model for allocating CDC's HIV prevention resources to minimize HIV incidence over a 5-year period.