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Peer Technical Advisor Opportunity

Improving Local Health Department (LHD) Adolescent HIV, STI, and/or Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Request for Applications

*** Due October 24, 2008***

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is developing a network of local health department (LHD) peer technical advisors to provide technical assistance to local health departments (LHDs), in order to improve their capacity to develop or enhance HIV, STI and/or unintended pregnancy prevention programs. This opportunity will allow peer technical advisors to share their expertise, experience, and knowledge with other LHDs interested in establishing or improving similar programs.

NACCHO will select up to ten LHDs from the applications submitted. The LHDs selected will be designated as NACCHO peer technical advisors, and will be responsible for providing either one conference call session or one in-person technical assistance session to another LHD. For more information and to apply, click here.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Policy Initiative

NACCHO’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Policy Initiative began in September 2007 when NACCHO entered into a cooperative agreement with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goal of the initiative is to establish and institutionalize mechanisms that will ensure an ongoing and mutually beneficial information exchange between CDC/DHAP and local health department (LHD) officials and program staff around HIV/AIDS prevention. NACCHO is working toward this goal through the following activities:

Identifying and sharing LHD best practices in HIV/STI prevention;
Disseminating HIV policy-related information through existing communication mechanisms;
Working with a sentinel network of LHD HIV prevention staff from across the country to conduct bi-monthly online queries to gather feedback on CDC policy and practice recommendations, including barriers to policy implementation at the local level; and
Developing HIV/AIDS and STI-related policy through NACCHO’s HIV/STI Prevention Workgroup, comprised of LHD directors and lead HIV/STI program staff.

Adolescent HIV Prevention Project

The Adolescent HIV Prevention Project began in May 2004 when NACCHO entered into a cooperative agreement with the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) of the CDC. The goal of the project is to build the capacity of LHDs to prevent adolescent HIV, STI, and unintended pregnancy in their communities. NACCHO is working toward this goal through the following activities:

Funding and providing technical support to two local health department (LHD) demonstration sites to enhance adolescent HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy prevention in their jurisdictions and share related resources and lessons learned with other LHDs;
Facilitating conference calls with pairs of DASH-funded local education agencies (LEAs) and their LHD counterparts to identify common objectives and associated opportunities for enhancing collaboration and avoiding duplication of efforts;
Identifying LHDs to provide adolescent HIV/STI and/or unintended pregnancy prevention peer technical assistance and facilitating peer technical assistance sessions via teleconference and in-person follow-up visits;
Identifying adolescent-specific tools, resources, and other adaptable materials to include in the NACCHO HIV/STI Toolkit;
Reviewing and sharing local health department HIV and STI prevention model and promising practices through NACCHO’s Share What Works: NACCHO Model and Promising Practices database; and
Hosting webcasts to enhance LHD capacity to reach adolescents at highest risk of HIV infection.