ELEVATE

Engage Leadership through Employment, Validation, and Advancing Transformation and Equity for persons with HIV

ELEVATE builds on the achievements of HRSA and RWHAP training programs and incorporates their features into a single project.

Purpose and Goals

The purpose of the ELEVATE program was to build the capacity of Persons With HIV (PWH) to be meaningfully involved in the planning, delivering, and improving of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) services.

ELEVATE addressed the needs in workforce recruitment, development, and advancement for PWH in populations 50+, Young Black Men, transgender/gender non-conforming (T/GNC), Latinx, and the recovery community. ELEVATE brought forth an increased initiative in these communities hit hard by HIV so that self-awareness and self-advocacy grew, while supporting the four goals of the HIV National Strategic Plan.

ELEVATE had three components to best meet the needs of the targeted community members most at risk from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program community, and participants within the 57 EHE in the U.S jurisdictions: Leadership Training, Coaching for PWH, and Web-based resources. This work was accomplished through interrelated activities across the five partnering organizations.

Partners

NMAC lead ELEVATE in partnership with JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, and the Latino Commission on AIDS.

• NMAC: Stigma reduction experts
• JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc.: Webinar content experts
• The Associations of Nurses in AIDS Care: Continuing Education experts
• Latino Commission on AIDS: Language justice experts
• ICF: Project evaluation