Project Descriptions

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.

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.

Strategic Planning to Expand Scope and Refocus on Health Justice
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Development and Implementation of Organizational Impact Evaluation
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

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

Overdose Prevention Services White Paper
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.

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

Facente 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 provide low-threshold buprenorphine via telemedicine to people living in San Francisco, in partnership with community-based sites.

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 four-phase assessment to develop innovative prototypes for HIV and hepatitis C-related service delivery for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.

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.

Staff Retreat Facilitation for the Harm Reduction Team
GLIDE

The GLIDE Harm Reduction team hired Facente Consulting to design and facilitate a full-day retreat to improve their functioning and effectiveness as a team, charting their course for progress over the next 1-3 years.

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

Facente Consulting conducted 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.

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 Transfer Center hired Facente Consulting to design and implement a harm reduction consultation program to support organizations in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa in implementing harm reduction work.

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 two-day summit for people in the rural northern counties of California, focusing on the opioid crisis and related public health issues.

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.

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.

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 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 SAMHSA Harm Reduction Grantees
NASTAD

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

Evaluation for CDC-Funded Syringe Service Program Vaccine Scale-Up
NASTAD

Facente Consulting conducted a program evaluation for CDC-funded syringe service programs working to scale up vaccine delivery capacity at their programs.

Harm Reduction and Housing Video Series
NASTAD

In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting created 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.

Educating Clinical Psych Students about Harm Reduction
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Facente Consulting developed and delivered a two-hour lecture for clinical psychology students and others at Touro University who wanted to earn continuing education credits for learning about harm reduction.

Creating a Harm Reduction Curriculum Infusion Package for University Professors
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Facente Consulting helped develop a harm reduction infusion package to support support college professors in infusing harm reduction framework and methodology into course curricula.

Sexual and Drug User Health Sector Workforce Equity Playbook
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting worked with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to develop a manual to ensure workforce equity in the sexual and drug user health sectors, including pay equity, hiring practices, and workplace environment.

Harm Reduction Training and Capacity Building for the Overdose Response Network
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Facente Consulting, through a contract with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, provided multiple trainings to the members of the Overdose Response Network (ORN) to build the capacity and knowledge of its network of TA providers and technology transfer specialists, who respond to a variety of requests nationwide.

Curriculum Development on Nevada’s Good Samaritan Law for the Larson Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno
The Larson Institute

Facente Consulting was hired to develop a curriculum and virtual training for public defenders in Nevada on the state’s Good Samaritan Law.

Supplemental Report to a Guide on HCV Services in Opioid Treatment Programs
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Facente Consulting produced the 2022 supplemental report for the 2020 Your Guide to Integrating HCV Services into Opioid Treatment Programs: Promising and Emerging Best Practices

Development of a Survey and Report to Assess Harm Reduction Capacity in Nevada
The Larson Institute

Facente Consulting developed a survey tool to measure statewide capacity of harm reduction interventions and delivering of a report on survey findings and recommendations.

Strategic Plan for SFDPH’s Congenital Syphilis Response
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting was hired to conduct a strategic planning process to refocus SFDPH’s congenital syphilis response efforts.

Strategic Support for the California Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction Initiative
National Harm Reduction Coalition

Facente Consulting provided strategic support gathering data and stakeholder input and developed a document to guide NHRC’s internal infrastucture and capacity-building work.

Facilitation of the Community Advisory Team for RTI International’s Strengthening Syringe Services Project
RTI International

Facente Consulting is facilitating a newly formed Community Advisory Team that will guide the Strengthening Syringe Services project, led by RTI International.

Program Planning for Rafiki Coalition’s UMOJA Health Access Point
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting provided program planning, retreat facilitation, and implementation technical assistance to the Rafiki Coalition to launch UMOJA, a Health Access Point funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health to provide coordinated, wholistic, and Afrocentric services to address the syndemic of HIV, HCV, STIs and related health and social issues within San Francisco’s Black and African American communities,

Facilitation and Planning Support for the East Bay Drug Checking Collaborative
HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County

Facente Consulting provided facilitation and project implementation support to the East Bay Drug Checking steering committee.

Development of a Guide to Integrating HIV, HCV, and Syphilis Testing and Treatment in Opioid Treatment Programs
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Facente Consulting supported the development of a guide to providing integrated HIV/HCV/STI testing, linkage and treatment in opioid treatment program settings.

Developing a Syndemic 101 Overview for the Behavioral Health Workforce
University of Missouri-Kansas City

To support workforce development among emerging behavioral health professionals, Facente Consulting developed an introductory-level overview guide about the intersection between behavioral health work and the syndemic of HIV, hepatitis C, sexually transmitted infections, and overdose.

Needs Assessment for Contingency Management Services in San Francisco
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Facente Consulting is helping the San Francisco Department of Public Health assess the the current landscape of access to contingency management in San Francisco and opportunities for expansion by conducting and analyzing interviews and focus groups with people engaged in treatment.

Strategic Planning for UCSF’s Pain and Addiction Research Center
University of California, San Francisco - Pain and Addiction Research Center

Facente Consulting is supporting the UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC) in developing a strategic plan to maximize PARC’s impact.

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