Facente Consulting led a year-long strategic planning process for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, incorporating the input of more than 1,000 stakeholders to usher the Foundation into a new era of expanded, health justice focused work.
Facente Consulting helped the Petersen HIV Clinics at the University of Arizona’s academic medical center create a first-ever strategic plan after a period of very rapid growth.
The Shanti Project hired Facente Consulting to develop promotional materials that would reduce inappropriate referrals to Shanti’s services and improve client satisfaction.
Facente Consulting supported Gilead Sciences with statistical analysis relating to HIV incidence rates, assisting with the study design, analysis plan, and interpretation of study data for the PURPOSE trials–ultimately leading to the groundbreaking FDA approval of the twice-yearly PrEP medication Lenacapavir.
Leadership of San Francisco AIDS Foundation asked Facente Consulting to create a “mini strategic plan” to support a comprehensive network of health and wellness services for people over the age of 50 who are living with HIV.
Facente Consulting supported the development of a guide to providing integrated HIV/HCV/STI testing, linkage and treatment in opioid treatment program settings.
Facente Consulting led a 2-day retreat to help AIDS United develop a theory of change to guide their future harm reduction initiatives.
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.
Facente Consulting led formative research to determine a promising strategy to build a highly skilled, cross-trained, valued, and sustainable HIV, hepatitis C, and STI workforce in San Francisco.
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.
San Francisco’s Center for Learning and Innovation hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for their five-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.
The Bay Area, North, & Central Coast (BANCC) region of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center hired Facente Consulting to develop a regional set of mission, vision, and values statements, along with some planning of strategic priorities for a new era of federal funding.
Facente Consulting worked with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation to strengthen PhD training capacity among faculty and trainees at two of South Africa’s eight designated Historically Disadvantaged Universities (HDUs).
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.
Dr. Facente provided quality assurance and technical assistance to trainers in PEPFAR countries (Uganda and Cambodia) who were tasked with training their colleagues on the use of assays to detect recent HIV infections.
Facente Consulting worked with UNAIDS and global partners to update their terminology guidelines, which provide common definitions of basic terms and concepts related to HIV response.
Facente Consulting collaborated with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and PRC to implement a landscape analysis and action plan for San Francisco’s Emergency Financial Assistance program.
Facente Consulting is supporting the California Department of Public Health and various counties throughout the state with technical assistance to develop and deploy the Implementation Blueprint in support of California’s Integrated Statewide Strategic Plan for Addressing HIV, HCV, and STIs from 2022-2026.
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,
The California Department of Public Health hired Facente Consulting to analyze and summarize nearly a decade of data from annual National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) surveys conducted in San Diego.
The World Health Organization hired Facente Consulting to lead a team of subject matter experts to (i) systematically review the use of HIV recency assays for public health surveillance and (ii) write an updated technical guidance document on assay use for use by countries around the world.
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.
Facente Consulting helped Riverside County’s health department develop a protocol for implementing surveillance-based HIV partner services and linkage to care, while aligning local Ryan White Part A and B Standards of Care documents with statewide standards.
In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting supported strategic planning processes for the 25 recipients of SAMHSA’s first harm reduction grants.
Facente Consulting is supporting the County of San Diego Public Health Services in developing evaluation infrastructure for their HIV, STI, and Hepatitis Branch.
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.
Facente 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.
Facente Consulting helped The Shanti Project to develop an evaluation tool that would collect clients’ feedback and opinions on the program, yield data to monitor program quality, and allow them to share program impacts when applying for future funding.
Facente Consulting collaborated with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Florida Department of Public Health to plan and implement institutes focused on improving capacity for HIV PrEP in Florida.
Facente Consulting developed a survey tool to measure statewide capacity of harm reduction interventions and delivering of a report on survey findings and recommendations.
Facente Consulting was selected by the California Department of Public Health to conduct a data-driven needs assessment to guide the state’s Integrated HIV Surveillance, Prevention, and Care Plan for 2023-2026.
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.
Facente Consulting helped the California Department of Public Health to 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.
Facente Consulting was hired to lead an assessment to inform innovative HIV and hepatitis C-related service delivery models for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.
Facente Consulting worked with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to develop a community-driven plan to end homelessness among people living with HIV, resulting in a call to action for San Francisco to address the root causes of homelessness for all people in the city.
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.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation asked Facente Consulting to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to monitor potential changes in client outcomes following implementation of their new strategic plan.
Facente Consulting was hired to conceptualize and complete an assessment of clinical implementation efforts for LAI PrEP and ART.
Facente Consulting worked with leadership of the California Prevention Training Center to plan and facilitate an all-staff retreat designed to build team cohesion and help the organization determine their “north star” for the next three years.
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.
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.
Facente Consulting facilitated a workshop at the Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center’s annual conference, helping attendees learn concrete tips to better communicate the impact of their HIV programs.
