Planning

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

Strategies to improve recruitment and retention of new PC/PB members (e.g., legislatively required membership categories, a recommended process for bringing on new members, establishing consumer trust, ongoing orientations).

Review of the needs assessment process that RWHAP Part A planning councils/planning bodies conduct annually, with a case study on consumer leadership of the needs assessment process.

Information for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipients to help them increase understanding and leveraging of the existing housing service system to better serve PLWH experiencing unstable housing.

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).

Five examples of integrated HIV prevention and care planning activities.

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.

El Manual fue diseñado para ayudar a los miembros del consejo de planificación del Programa Ryan White de VIH/SIDA Parte A, a entender las labores y el funcionamiento de los consejos de planificación.

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).

This sample ranking sheet in Word format lists the service categories to be prioritized for final decision making by the Planning Council. It shows current and two prior years’ rankings for reference.

This sample Excel document displays and averages the service category rankings of multiple Planning Council sub-groups. 

This Excel worksheet developed by the Virginia Department of Health, RWHAP Part B recipient, provides a format for recording key considerations for resource allocation as well as resource allocation decisions for the RWHAP service categories.

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.

The Integrated Plan Tracking tool is a spreadsheet containing the Arizona Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan work plan, including details of activities, parties responsible, timelines, and performance measures. It also includes a color coded column tracking the status of activities for users to update and also use for communicating overall activity progress.

Priority setting worksheet to outline priorities for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) service categories as part of the planning process.

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.

The report describes the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which certain health care providers to receive significant discounts on certain prescription medications, including HIV medications. The report includes key 340B policies, as well as recent utilization trends and challenges.

The article describes a resource allocation modeling exercise carried out in Iowa in 2012 following a significant decrease in the state’s HIV prevention funding budget.

This factsheet provides an overview of the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), including their function, budget, eligibility criteria for clients, and involvement with the 340B Drug Pricing
Program.