Training the next generation of the HIV prevention workforce
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The National Learning Community is FREE to
managers at community based organizations.
Are you an HIV prevention program manager at a community-based organization?
Grow with us.
The National Learning Community for HIV CBO Leadership is a distance-based learning program that will strengthen the next generation of leaders at community-based organizations. We will provide you with a tailored learning experience that will empower you to manage the people, programs, and organizations that will End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.
At-a-glance benefits
An exclusive online community of peers, coaches, and mentors in the HIV prevention workforce.
A virtual, cohort-based creative problem-solving intensive.
Self-Paced Short Courses
Creative Problem-Solving Intensive
In this six-week program, you will be matched with a cohort of managers from across the country to learn and practice methods to accelerate organizational change.
In weekly 60-minute video conference sessions, you will collaborate with HIV program capacity building experts, designers, mentors, and coaches to design solutions to challenges facing your agencies.
Graduates from the Creative Problem-Solving Intensive will earn an Advanced Certificate in HIV Program Innovation.
Check out a program teaser
Orientation >>
Learn how to use our learning management system (LMS) and pickup some tools and tips for learning online.
Learn about the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) campaign in the U.S. and the competencies managers need to the end the HIV epidemic!
Courses >>
Orientation Courses
Ending the HIV Epidemic for CBO Managers
Faculty: Dr. Michael Terry Everett, Jacobi Hunter-Wright, Adrian Neil Jr, Jamila Shipp
Learn about Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE), following the four pillars established by Health and Human Services: Diagnose, Treat, Prevent, and Respond. Learn to align your practices to contribute to EHE.
Core Competencies of Management
Faculty: Jamila Shipp, Dana Williams
A foundational tool to build capacity in the core competencies of managing people, programs, and organizations needed to fulfill your agency’s vision and mission.
Foundational & Advanced* Course Outline
Managing People
Talent Acquisition
Faculty: Bolivar Nieto
Learn the concepts and techniques to effectively and efficiently explain job positions, design job descriptions, and engage in the processes of talent recruitment and selection.
Building Staff Capacity
Faculty: Bolivar Nieto
Learn fundamental management and supervision concepts, techniques, habits, and tools that will help assess your management style, determine the best management and supervision techniques to use with staff, and build a customized management and supervision system to develop the professional development capacity of staff.
From Intention to Retention: Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Your Staff
Faculty: Dr. Michael Terry Everett
Introductory course on the manager’s role in supporting staff retention and preventing high turnover among community-based organization (CBO) staff within the HIV workforce.
Managing Programs
Bridging the Gap: Collaborations and Partnerships
Faculty: Adrian Neil Jr.
Learn the importance of collaborations and partnerships in order to help ensure the success of HIV programs. Think about innovative ways to develop new and existing partnerships. Review the components of a mutually beneficial partnership.
Achieving Your Program Deliverables
Faculty: Melanie Graham
An introduction on how SMART goals, logic models, work plans, and data-informed planning are necessary to achieving program deliverables. Learn how these tools can help to communicate progress and results to their team, community, and funders.
Reaching Your Priority Population(s)
Faculty: Miguel Bujanda
Learn how to identify hard-to-reach populations and develop a targeted recruitment strategy through a six-question approach and segmentation to reach these populations.
Managing Organizations
Working with Stakeholders
Faculty: Melanie Graham
Learn how to identify key stakeholders and their interests and create a plan for engaging stakeholders.
Busting the Nonprofit Budget Mystique
Faculty: Jacob Yang-Smith
Build confidence working on the financial and budget components of program management.
Organizational Culture
Faculty: Dr. Michael Terry Everett
Learn to develop HIV workforce managers’ skills and help them understand concepts and mindsets that foster organizational sustainability.
To see an extensive list of courses, descriptions, and subject matter expert, download our course listing PDF.
National Learning Community Eligibility
Requirements
All you is need access to a computer with an up-to-date modern browser and a reliable internet connection. Participants in the Creative Problem-Solving Intensive will also need a webcam.
You’ll use the following online application as tools:
You don’t need prior experience with any of these, but a willingness to learn will take you far!
Our online learning management platform
A collaborative communication application
An online conference and webinar provider
Applicants should
Be managers at an HIV prevention and response community based organizations or agencies.
Have programmatic oversight over at least one HIV program.
Supervise at least one staff member.
Program cost
The Learning Community is FREE to managers at any agency.
APIAHF’s Capacity for Health (C4H) project provides FREE capacity building assistance to community based organizations engaged in HIV prevention across the United States and its affiliated territories. The C4H project is funded to provide capacity building assistance (CBA) under Funding Opportunity Announcement 09-906 and this website is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U65/PS001651 from The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
APIAHF is one of 17 organizations awarded a grant under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new program, PS19-1904: Capacity Building Assistance for High-Impact HIV Prevention Program Integration. The program supports the federal initiative, Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America. Capacity for Health is Component 3 of the CBA Provider Network funded under this program.
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