As part of CDC’s Capacity-Building Assistance Providers Network (CPN), the Center for Learning and Innovation at (CLI) the San Francisco Department of Public Health supports CDC-funded organizations to design, implement, and evaluate high-impact HIV prevention initiatives. In 2017, CLI was asked to support the state of Florida in developing and piloting a series of three HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) institutes in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Tallahassee. These institutes were tailored to healthcare and community-based organizations across Florida to support them in planning and implementing comprehensive HIV PrEP programs for residents in greatest need.
CLI contracted Facente Consulting to coordinate project partners, as well as to plan and develop the institute curriculum. Facente Consulting worked closely with staff at the Florida Department of Health to design the institutes by leading weekly planning calls, developing timelines and workplans for capacity-building providers across multiple agencies, conducting ‘determination of need’ calls with local health departments, and creating training materials for the institutes. Facente Consulting then planned and facilitated each three-day institute and prepared final summary reports, including comprehensive analyses of participant evaluations administered immediately following the institute and six months post-institute.