The Bay Area, North, & Central Coast (BANCC) region of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) offers a variety of trainings and professional development activities for care teams in the BANCC areas of California, with a focus on HIV prevention, clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related major co-morbidities (e.g., mental health, substance use, and sexually transmitted infections). While much of their work is dictated by the overarching mission, vision, and goals of PAETC, PAETC-BANCC wanted to develop a locally tailored set of mission, vision, and values statements to guide their work in this unique part of the state.
PAETC-BANCC hired Facente Consulting to facilitate a half-day team retreat focused on developing a mission statement, vision statement, and set of values that are aligned with the overall PAETC mission and vision, but tailored to BANCC. BANCC knew the new five-year round of federal funding was going to be announced six weeks after the half-day retreat, making their opportunities and resource constraints clear, so they also had us facilitate a full-day retreat with the same team shortly after the funding was announced. This retreat was focused on setting strategic priorities for local work and helping the organization complete detailed action planning for the next year of capacity-building.