Capacity Building Assistance
The Commission offers capacity building assistance of local institutions - community organizations, health departments, healthcare providers, churches, and LGBT groups - to provide local disease prevention, healthcare and health education services in Latino communities.
Capacity Building Assistance is offered by the following programs:
Deep South Project
The program provides capacity building and community mapping services to organizations that serve Latinos in the south. [go to program website]
Manos Unidas
Manos Unidas is a capacity building assistance program serving community based organization and health departments that provide HIV prevention services to Latino communities in NY, NJ, MA, ME, VT, NH, RI, CT, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Manos Unidas offers on-site, state-wide and regional services designed to enhance the ability or organizations and health departments to implement HIV prevention initiatives targeting the Latino community.
[go to program website] Puente Para la Salud
The goal of the program is to increase access to services, and improving the delivery of health and other related human services to LGBT individuals, their families and communities.
[go to program website]
TRIP: Transforming Research into Prevention
TRIP goal of this program is to enhance the capacity of local HIV prevention organizations to implement and sustain effective and feasible behavioral interventions by making intervention materials and training more widely available. To accomplish this goal, this program will aid in the conversion of the technical language of an already selected evidenced-based intervention (EBI) into easy to read language and to create user-friendly intervention packages containing implementation manuals, training curricula, and other technical assistance materials for use by HIV prevention providers.
[go to program website]
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