Project Descriptions

Conference Coordinating Committee Facilitation, AIDS2020
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting was hired to plan and facilitate highly political local coordinating committee meetings for the 2020 International AIDS Conference, which was slated to be jointly held in San Francisco and Oakland, CA until it was forced to move to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Retreat Facilitation and Theory of Change Development
AIDS United

Facente Consulting was hired to design and lead a 2-day retreat to help AIDS United plan for the future of their harm reduction initiatives.

Ending the HIV Epidemic Planning and Implementation Support
California Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting worked with the California Department of Public Health and local health departments in six California counties to develop five-year plans under the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, then successfully implement those innovative plans beginning in 2021.

Routine HIV Screening in California Emergency Departments
California Department of Public Health

The California Department of Public Health enlisted Facente Consulting to help them research and submit a report to the legislature summarizing findings and recommendations about the effectiveness and feasibility of routine HIV screening in California emergency departments.

NIH R21 Study Coordination and Data Analysis
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) -- CFAR/Gladstone Institute

Dr. Facente was a co-investigator on this two-year research study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), with the goal of better understanding the epidemiology of hepatitis C in three high-burden subpopulations in San Francisco.

Planning and Facilitation of the Florida PrEP Institutes
San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH)

The Center for Learning and Innovation at the San Francisco Department of Public Health was asked to provide capacity-building assistance to the State of Florida through the CDC-supported Capacity-Building Assistance Providers Network (CPN). The goal of this project was to develop and pilot a series of three HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) institutes in Orlando, Ft. […]

Philanthropic Investment Strategy Research and Planning
Hellman Foundation

In 2019, the Hellman Foundation reached out to Facente Consulting for help in identifying challenges and opportunities for a deep philanthropic investment in San Francisco’s safety net clinic system, ultimately deciding to invest in clinic-based food security interventions.

Collective Impact Backbone Support
San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership

Facente Consulting provided strategic and project management support to guide the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership – a collective impact initiative dedicated to reducing health disparities in San Francisco – in developing, implementing, and evaluating its annual priorities and activities.

Evaluation of Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) and COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery
NASTAD

Facente Consulting was selected to evaluate a three-tiered, multi-million dollar project to provide grants to syringe services programs (SSPs) around the country to work on improving COVID-19 vaccination uptake among people who use drugs.

COVID-19 Safety Consultation and Data Training
Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB)

Facente Consulting was asked to to provide ongoing support for Palm Springs’ politicians, business owners, and other stakeholders regarding protocols, data interpretation, and internal communications for COVID-19 safety in businesses and public areas.

Strategic Planning to Expand Scope and Refocus on Health Justice
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting was selected by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to lead a year-long strategic planning process that would incorporate the input of more than 200 staff and over 800 donors, volunteers, clients, and external stakeholders, ushering the Foundation into a new era of expanded work and a focus on health justice.

Impact Evaluation of a California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) to Improve LGBTQ+ Mental Health
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting was contracted to serve as the lead evaluator for this local mental health-focused impact evaluation, with primary responsibility for designing and implementing a local evaluation plan, managing IRB approvals and human subject concerns, overseeing data collection, and conducting a quantitative analysis of local participant data.

Planning and Facilitation of a National Drug User Health Symposium
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting project managed, promoted, facilitated, and produced a two-day virtual Drug User Health Symposium as part of NACCHO’s Overdose Prevention and Response Mentorship Program.

Facilitation of the Mayor’s Methamphetamine Task Force
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired to plan and facilitate the Methamphetamine Task Force created by San Francisco Mayor London Breed, composed of medical and public health professionals, substance use disorder treatment providers, emergency responders, criminal justice and law enforcement officials, drug policy experts, and people who use or have used methamphetamine.

The Tobacco Free Project Customer Experience Process
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting collaborated with San Francisco’s Tobacco Free Project and Bright Research Group to facilitate a virtual, four-part community engagement process to guide the Project in setting priorities for its next work plan.

Development of a Comprehensive Program Evaluation for a Neighborhood-Wide Community Program
Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)

Facente Consulting was selected to help TLCBD create a Theory of Change for their work, learn the Results-Based AccountabilityTM (RBA) framework for evaluation, and develop an evaluation map to guide their future program evaluations.

Development of WHO/UNAIDS Technical Guidance for Use of HIV Recency Assays
World Health Organization

The World Health Organization hired Facente Consulting to lead a team of subject matter experts who systematically reviewed existing evidence about the use of HIV recency assays for public health surveillance, and write an updated technical guidance document for use by countries around the world.

HIV Recency Assay Step-Down Training, Centers for Disease Control
Vitalant Research Institute

Dr. Facente provided quality assurance and technical assistance to trainers in Uganda and Cambodia as they built their skills to train their colleagues in rural areas on the use of the Asanté HIV-1 Rapid Recency Assay, to detect recent HIV infections in PEPFAR countries.

Strategic Planning for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Arc San Francisco

Facente Consulting worked with The Arc San Francisco to guide them in the creation of a strategic plan for 2021-2024 that would increase their focus on equity and propel the organization into a new progressive era of service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Community Health Leadership Institute (CHLI) Implementation Support
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired to conduct formative research to determine the best methods for implementing a strategy to build a highly skilled HIV, hepatitis C, and STI workforce in San Francisco that is cross-trained, reflects the populations served, has low turnover rates, and is valued and supported.

Youth Needs Assessment
One Treasure Island

Facente Consulting was hired by the Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative to conduct a needs assessment of youth living on the island, and develop a services plan to assist them in supporting Treasure Island families over a five-year period during the early phase of a $1.6 billion buildout of the island.

Strategic Planning to End Family Homelessness
Hamilton Families

Hamilton Families asked Facente Consulting to assist them in developing a three-year strategic plan to cultivate organizational excellence, strengthen high-impact services for homeless families during the pandemic recovery period, and design an advocacy program to drive systemic change for the future.

94124 COVID Connect & Care (C3) Project Management
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting provided project management support that enabled the Rafiki Coalition to create a coalition of agencies designed to address the disparities in COVID-19 testing, infection, and care for Blacks/African Americans in San Francisco.

HCV Elimination Strategic Planning
Hep C Free Allegheny

Even before COVID-19 made “Zoom” a household word, Facente Consulting worked with Hep C Free Allegheny to virtually facilitate a strategic planning process for the hepatitis C elimination initiative, cutting costs and maximizing efficiency while planning their next three years of priorities.

Board Retreat Facilitation to Develop Mission, Vision, and Strategic Priorities
American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA)

Facente Consulting helped ASTDA reach consensus on the Association’s mission, vision, values, and key initiatives through a series of half-day board retreats.

Analysis of Qualitative Interviews about Training Needs for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeons
AO Foundation

The AO Foundation hired Facente Consulting to analyze qualitative transcripts from interviews with 92 cranio-maxillofacial surgeons worldwide, and summarize findings around training needs in multiple formats to guide future work.

Addiction and Recovery Issue Brief
Battery Powered

Battery Powered hired Facente Consulting to provide expert advice on the framing of their quarterly philanthropic theme “Addiction and Recovery,” and deliver an issue brief to educate members about the topic.

COVID-19 Response After Action Report and Preparedness Planning
California Department of Public Health

The California Department of Public Health reached out to Facente Consulting to help them identify lessons learned and develop a plan for short-, medium- and long-term improvements to their pandemic response systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) Data Analysis
California Department of Health

The California Department of Public Health hired Facente Consulting to analyze a mountain of data from annual National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) surveys conducted in San Diego since 2013, providing R code to clean the datasets for future use and a summary of preliminary results of risk factor trends over time.

Needs Assessment for the Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan
California Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was selected by the California Department of Public Health to lead the process to conduct a needs assessment to support data-driven decision-making about the state’s Integrated HIV Surveillance, Prevention, and Care Plan for 2023-2026.

Ryan White Standards of Care Overhaul
California Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting assisted the California Department of Public Health to synthesize, draft, and finalize a revised set of Standards of Care documents for all 29 Ryan White Part B service categories in 2018, improving consistency of HIV care for people living throughout the state.

Workplace Wellness Needs Assessment and Toolkit Revamp
California Department of Public Health

The Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch of the California Department of Public Health hired Facente Consulting to assess and revamp the California Fit Business Kit, a toolkit that supports employers to implement worksite wellness strategies for low-wage workers.

Syringe Services Programs Best Practices Tool Development
NASTAD

Facente Consulting was hired to create a set of performance standards to provide guidance and best practices for public health departments, community-based organizations, and community stakeholders/service providers around the country as they developed and expanded syringe services programs in their areas.

Strategic Planning for Elimination of the HIV/HCV/STI Syndemic
California Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting designed and led the process to develop and implement a new strategic plan for California to end the HIV, HCV, and STI “syndemic,” featuring 30 strategies to address these diseases through the lenses of six social determinants of health.

California Tobacco Control Program Health Equity Summit Planning and Facilitation
California Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting is helping California’s Tobacco Control Program to plan and implement a Health Equity Summit in September 2022, followed by writing a Health Equity Plan to guide the Program’s work to end tobacco use in California among the most highly impacted groups.

Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping for Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
CAMI Health

Facente Consulting partnered with Garrow Consulting, LLC to design and create a Story Map for CAMI Health, depicting findings from qualitative interviews about reproductive health choices with young women, partners, grandmothers, and researchers/policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Manuscript Development to Summarize Research about Fluvoxamine Treatment for COVID-19
Dr. Jeffrey Klausner

In 2021, Facente Consulting was hired to take notes of a national meeting of U.S. experts exploring the potential of fluvoxamine as an early treatment for COVID-19, and turn the meeting outcomes into a peer-reviewed publication in a high-profile clinical journal.

Collective Impact Backbone Support and Data Analysis to Eliminate Hepatitis C
End Hep C SF

Facente Consulting was hired during the formation of End Hep C SF to provide “backbone support” for this collective impact initiative, assist with strategic planning, and lead research and surveillance activities to monitor progress toward hepatitis C elimination.

Rapporteur Services for the World Health Organization Working Group on HIV Incidence Measurement and Data Use
World Health Organization

Facented Consulting was hired to attend a meeting of the WHO Working Group on HIV Incidence Measurement and Data Use in Boston, MA as a ‘rapporteur,’ preparing a formal meeting report describing the meeting and summarizing key findings for future reference by the international community.

Assisting to Integrate Hepatitic C Services into Opioid Treatment Programs in the Midwest
University of Missouri–Kansas City

Facente Consulting worked with the Addiction Technology Training Center to write up case studies of three methadone programs that had successfully incorporated hepatitis C services into their model, and completed white papers on several related topics, including COVID vulnerability for people who use drugs.

Research Expansion Advancing Community Health (REACH) Strategic Planning
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Facente Consulting helped UCSF develop an equity framework for launching their new concept: a shared use mobile van designed to improve community-based research opportunities in San Francisco.

Academic Manuscript Development
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Dr. Tan at UCSF reached out to Facente Consulting for ongoing assistance with manuscript development, literature reviews, and technical editing to support grant submissions, helping to move her academic portfolio forward and support her overall research goals.

Project Coordination, Consortium for the Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA)
The Consortium for the Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA)

Dr. Facente served as the project manager for the Consortium for the Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA) for more than a decade, providing high-level project coordination and analytic support to researchers focused on HIV incidence estimation around the world.

DeLIVER Care Van Strategic Planning
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) -Gastroenterology

The DeLIVER Care van hired Facente Consulting to facilitate a series of meetings to help them strategize around staff turnover and sustainability, improving financial sustainability, creating a community action board, and systematizing volunteer engagement.

Needs Assessment for HIV Care among Women, Infants, Children, and Youth, including Trans Women and Trans Youth
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Facente Consulting conducted a needs assessment to help the Family Care Network at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, CA better understand how to meet the needs of women, infants, children, and youth living with HIV who use their services.

Program Evaluation Support for HIV Programs
The Shanti Project

Facente Consulting helped The Shanti Project to develop an evaluation tool that would collect clients’ feedback and opinions on the program, and yield data to monitor program quality and share program impacts when applying for future funding.

Promotional Material Development to Reduce Inappropriate Referrals
The Shanti Project

The Shanti Project hired Facente Consulting to facilitate a process to develop promotional materials to educate clients and referring providers about Shanti’s services.

Youth LGBT Program Evaluation and “True North” Facilitation
The San Francisco LGBT Center

Facente Consulting was hired assist to assist the Youth Program at the SF LGBT Center to develop and refine their program outcomes and objectives, develop measurement tools and processes, and assemble a written evaluation manual for use moving forward.

Development and Implementation of Organizational Impact Evaluation
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation asked Facente Consulting to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to determine changes in client outcomes resulting for implementation of their new strategic plan.

HIV and Housing Assessment and Call to Action
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation contracted with Facente Consulting to develop a community-driven plan to end homelessness among people living with HIV; through this process, a new vision for the project emerged: a Call to Action endorsed by the HIV community, calling for the City to address the root causes of homelessness for all people in San Francisco.

Strategic Planning for HIV and Aging Programs
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Leadership of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation reached out to Facente Consulting and asked them to create a “mini strategic plan” for their goal of creating a comprehensive network of health and wellness services for people over the age of 50 who are living with HIV, taking into account the changing dynamics brought on by the the COVID-19 pandemic.

Overdose Prevention Services White Paper
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting was hired to develop a white paper for the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, reviewing options for overdose prevention services (also known as supervised consumption services) in collaboration with a number of key community stakeholders.

COVID-19 Safety Protocol Development
The Berkeley School

In late February 2020, leadership of The Berkeley School reached out to Facente Consulting for guidance on campus safety and assistance with interpreting the rapidly changing data on the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive Coaching and Support
Tenderloin Community Benefit District

The Tenderloin Community Benefit District hired Facente Consulting on a retainer basis for Executive Leadership support and the development of systems and processes and problem-solving more broadly in the organization.

Qualitative Interviews and Analysis Related to Gender and Success
Stanford Medicine

Facente Consulting was hired by academic physicians at Stanford’s Medical School to coordinate the qualitative research aspects of a study designed to better understand gender-based differences for how academic physicians think about and experience success in their careers.

Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Microaggressions in Medical Care
Stanford Medicine

Facente Consulting assisted a medical team at Stanford’s academic hospital to analyze both qualitative and quantative survey data collected to explore the experiences and effects of gendered microaggressions from patients to physicians.

Needs Assessment and Recommendations to Prevent Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis C
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired by the San Francisco Department of Public Health to implement a needs assessment and develop recommendations for the identification and prevention of perinatal transmission of hepatitis C in San Francisco.

Community Materials Development and Town Hall Meeting Facilitation for Dissemination of San Francisco’s Ending the Epidemics Plan
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Faente Consulting worked with community-based organizations representing five priority populations (Blacks/African Americans, Latines, trans women, people who inject drugs, and people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity) to develop town hall events and community-focused materials to disseminate information and gather community feedback about San Francisco’s plan to End the HIV, Hepatitis C, and STI epidemics.

Telebuprenorphine Pilot Project Management
San Francisco Department of Public Health

The San Francisco Department of Public Health hired Facente Consulting to serve as a project manager for a pilot program to provider low-threshold buprenorphine via telemedicine to people living in San Francisco, in partnership with community-based sites.

Capacity-Building Assistance Evaluation Support
San Francisco Department of Public Health

San Francisco’s Center for Learning and Innovation hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for their 5-year grant providing capacity-building assistance to CDC-funded organizations focused on non-clinical HIV testing and HIV prevention in the Western Region of the United States.

Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Consultation and Data Support
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting assisted the Applied Research, Community Health, Epidemiology & Surveillance (ARCHES) Branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health to assess their planning for surveillance of viral hepatitis, and produce the first comprehensive report on viral hepatitis to be released by the health department in 11 years.

Ending the HIV, HCV, and STI Epidemics Program Planning
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired by the San Francisco Department of Public Health to design and support a rapid planning process for their efforts to end the syndemic of HIV, hepatitis C, and STIs in the city, coordinate a massive community engagement effort, and refine strategies into a final comprehensive plan by end of 2020.

Needs Assessment and Qualitative Analysis for San Francisco’s OPT-IN Project
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired to design and conduct a 4-phase assessment to develop innovative prototypes for HIV and hepatitis C-related service delivery for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.

Process and Impact Evaluation for a Collective Impact Initiative
End Hep C SF

Facente Consulting manages the ongoing evaluation of End Hep C SF, writing an annual report on the strengths and weaknesses of the group’s function as a collective impact initiative, and designing and maintaining a public dashboard of progress toward elimination using the Results-Based Accountability^TM framework.

Needs Assessment of Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in the Jail System
End Hep C SF

Facente Consulting was selected by End Hep C SF to design and lead a mixed methods needs assessment to identify gaps in hepatitis C (HCV) testing and treatment in the San Francisco jails, identify best practices for treatment and linkage, and develop a HCV care cascade for people currently or recently incarcerated.

Online-Based Training for Syringe Services Programs (SSPs)
ETR

ETR reached out to Facente Consulting to serve as a subject matter expert in the design of an online training to support syringe services programs (SSPs) in using the CDC document Syringe Services Programs: A Technical Package of Effective Strategies and Approaches for Planning, Design, and Implementation, released in 2020.

Program Evaluation for an Infant Morbidity and Mortality Initiative – Fresno Babies First
Fresno County Department of Public Health

The County of Fresno hired Facente Consulting to use Results-Based Accountability^TM to implement a comprehensive restructure of the evaluation system for their Babies First program, designed to improve pregnancy outcomes among Black/African American women in Fresno, CA.

Staff Retreat Facilitation for the Harm Reduction Team
GLIDE

Facente Consulting provided advanced statistical support to Gilead Sciences for an ongoing clinical trial of a new HIV PrEP medication, assessing the “background” HIV incidence rate in settings throughout the world where they conduct their clinical trials.

Needs Assessment about Drug User Health in San Francisco
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting is conducting a landscape analysis, supplemented with interviews and focus groups, to help the San Francisco Department of Public Health better understand the health needs of people who use drugs in San Francisco.

California Reducing Disparities Project (CDRP) Statistical Analysis
LGBTQ Connection

The LGBTQ Connection hired Facente Consulting to provide advanced statistical support for the impact evaluation of their local intervention under the California Reducing Disparities Project, intended to reduce mental health disparities for young LGBTQ+ people in the Napa and Santa Rosa areas of California.

Technical Assistance to Harm Reduction Programs for the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center
Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center

The Mid-America Addiction Technology Training Center hired Facente Consulting to design and implement a harm reduction consultation program, to support organizations in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa to implement harm reduction work.

Strategic Planning and Technical Assistance for Ending the HIV Epidemic
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Facente Consulting was selected to assist a local health jurisdiction in Maryland with strategically planning and implementing their Ending the HIV Epidemic program, creating a replicable process to aid other health departments in delivering similar services in the future.

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Technical Assistance
NASTAD

Dr. Facente was selected as a member of the technical assistance team as part of a new national technical assistance center at NASTAD designed to support viral hepatitis prevention and surveillance personnel at state, territorial, and major city/county health departments.

Strategic Planning for LGBTQ+ Seniors
Openhouse

Openhouse hired Facente Consulting to lead a strategic planning process designed to shift the organization’s emphasis toward a deliberate focus on LGBTQ+ seniors who have been forced to demonstrate the greatest resilience despite longstanding structural and individual racism, classism, homophobia, and/or transphobia.

Design and Facilitation of a Story-Telling Workshop
Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center

Facente Consulting designed and provided a one-hour workshop during the Pacific AETC’s annual conference, assisting attendees to better comunicate the results and impact of their HIV programs by preparing to T.E.L.L. their story: Take 5 minutes to hotwash, Examine your impact (at all levels), Link to your audience and Liven it up!

Planning and Facilitation of a Summit on the Rural Opioid Crisis
Project Inform

Project Inform hired Facente Consulting to lead the agenda planning, logistics, and facilitation of a 2-day Summit for people in the rural northern counties of California to focus on the opioid crisis and related public health issues.

Ujamaa Collective Strategic Assistance
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting supported the San Francisco Black Led Organizations Coalition (SFBLOC) by reviewing a draft of their first-ever strategic plan, and provide substantive recommendations for the final document, creating a strong foundation for the Coalition’s future work.

Protocols for Partner Services and Linkages to Care
Riverside University Health System -- Public Health

Riverside County’s public health department asked Facente Consulting for help in developing a protocol for implementing surveillance-based HIV partner services and linkage to care, and aligning local Ryan White Part A and B Standards of Care documents with statewide standards.

Planning for Program Integration for People Living With HIV
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting facilitated a series of planning meetings with the San Francisco Community Health Center to develop a new program workflow that would integrate three distinct programs for people living with HIV, including a centralized intake assessment and case manager assignment process.

Tobacco Program Evaluation and Implementation Support
San Francisco Community Health Center

The San Francisco Community Health Center hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for a five-year project focused on preventing smoking in the LGBTQ+ community though coalition-building and policy change.

Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Program Evaluation
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting served as the local evaluator for a five-year grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and substance use prevention among unhoused, LGBTQ+ young adults ages 18-24 in San Francisco.

Capacity-Bulding Assistance for Programs Serving Trans People in the Midwest
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting supported the San Francisco Community Health Center to design and implement a six-session community of practice that brought together community-based organizations, health departments, and other agencies in the Midwest United States for peer-to-peer learning to improve HIV-related service delivery to trans people in the US.

Substance Use Disorders Team Retreat Facilitation
San Francisco Department of Public Health

The Substance Use Disorders Team of San Francisco’s Community Behavioral Health Services Branch hired Facente Consulting to plan and facilitate a day-long staff retreat focused on team-building and discussion of priorities for action in the coming year.

Citywide Hepatitis B Needs Assessment
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting assisted the San Francisco Department of Public Health in summarizing the history and current landscape of various efforts to address hepatitis B in San Francisco, serving as the foundation upon which a strategy to comprehensively address HBV citywide could be launched.

Tobacco Free Project Quantitative Data Analysis
San Francisco Department of Public Health

To support San Francisco’s Tobacco Free Project in anlyzing local data to report during community engagement meeting presentations, Facente Consulting analyzed datasets from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and the Healthy Stores Healthy Communities (HSHC) Survey.

Tobacco Free Project Evaluation Support
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting collaborated with the Tobacco Free Project over the course of three years to guide, design and implement a range of evaluation activities, including survey data collection, key infomant interviews, public opinion polls, and training of community data collectors.

Clinic Flow Analysis for the Adult-Older Adult System of Care within Behavioral Health Services
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was brought in to assist the Community Behavioral Health Services Branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health to evolve their Adult-Older Adult system of care and support mental health providers to streamline intake and service provision.

Creating the First Strategic Plan for a Growing HIV Clinic
Petersen HIV Clinics at the University of Arizona

Facente Consulting helped the Petersen HIV Clinics (PHC) at the University of Arizona’s academic medical center create a first-ever strategic plan after a period of very rapid growth for the clinic.

Coordinating Stakeholder Engagement for a Transportation Study on Treasure Island
One Treasure Island

Facente Consulting worked with multiple partners to manage stakeholder engagement during a transportation study on Treasure Island, including developing a written community survey and four in-person focus groups, in English, Spanish, and Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese).

BEAM Staff Retreat
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

Facente Consulting facilitated the annual end-of-year strategic visioning and wellness retreat for BEAM – the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective.

Evaluation of Gender-Inclusive School Trainings in California
Gender Spectrum

Facente Consulting is evaluating the impact of Gender Spectrum’s gender-inclusive trainings on staff and students from trained schools.

Developing and Evaluating a Philanthropic Giving Strategy for Gilead Foundation
Gilead Foundation

Facente Consulting is helping Gilead Foundation develop a theory of change and evaluation strategy for their three-year, $20 million initiative to advance education equity throughout the United States.

Assistance to Develop a System of Panel Management within a Jail Medical System
San Francisco Jail Health Services

Facente Consulting has helped San Francisco’s Jail Health Services develop infrastructure within their medical record system to do enhanced HCV-related panel management of people who are incarcerated, and regularly estimate their jail-based HCV cascade of care.

Survey Support and Data Analysis for Advokids
Advokids

Facente Consulting is helping Advokids develop and disseminate a survey to thousands of foster care youth and caregivers throughout California, ultimately analyzing the data and helping Advokids present a case to the Judicial Council that will ensure that attorneys are held responsible for meeting the needs of their minor clients in foster care.

Test and Be Treated (TBT) Study Data Analysis
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Facente Consulting helped shape and execute an epidemiological analysis of patterns related to recency of HIV infection at the time of diagnosis in San Francisco, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Creating a Toolkit for Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Harm Reduction Settings
NASTAD

Facente Consulting created a technical assistance package for NASTAD, providing information and helpful tools and tips about the use of CBPR models to evaluate impact of harm reduction programs.

Strategic Planning for the Population Health Workforce Branch of CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Facente Consulting has helped CDC’s Population Health Workforce Branch to strategically plan the development of the Center’s scientific workforce, including managing rapid growth, forecasting workforce needs, improving DEI and accessibility, and effectively evaluating the work of the Branch.

Strategic Planning for SAMHSA Harm Reduction Grantees
NASTAD

In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting is supporting strategic planning processes for the 25 recipients of SAMHSA’s first harm reduction grants.

Evaluation for CDC-Funded SSP Vaccine Scale-Up
NASTAD

Facente Consulting is conducting a program evaluation for CDC-funded SSPs working to scale up vaccine delivery capacity at their programs.

Hep elimiNATION Toolkit Planning and Deveopment
O'Neill Institute

In partnership with the O’Neill Institute, Facente Consulting conducted a needs assessment for the hep elimiNATION toolkit, collecting qualitative data from over a dozen health department staff working in viral hepatitis about what they would want to see in a hepatitis elimination planning toolkit. Facente Consulting then provided an outline for the toolkit, and developed content for three of its modules.

Harm Reduction and Housing Video Series
NASTAD

“In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting is creating a two-page summary, as well as a series of videos summarizing evidence, that provide tools and best practices and highlight a variety of real-life examples of harm reduction housing models that support frontline workers.

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