Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and HIV/AIDS

• HIV Health Reform is a project that provides tailored information on ACA for people living with HIV/AIDS and their providers.

• CDC's The Affordable Care Act Helps People Living With HIV/AIDS.

• HRSA's Ryan White and the Affordable Care Act: What You Need to Know.

• The National Association for State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) Health Reform Watch is an online newsletter that provides information about state and federal health reform efforts and how they might affect people living with HIV/AIDS.

• The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Reform Source offers reader-friendly information for both employers and consumers about health care reform.

• Resources and educational materials, like fact sheets, brochures, presentations, etc. on the ACA created by HealthCare.gov.

HIV Integrated Care

Integration of mental health care, substance abuse care and HIV/AIDS prevention care
This site provides a resource center for current research, valid and reliable mental health and substance abuse screening instruments, integration best practices and fact sheets regarding the integration of mental health care, substance abuse care and HIV prevention care.

SISTA

SISTA Resource Guide for Adapting SISTA for Latinas (PDF, 4MB)
This guide was created to provide practical technical assistance and resources to staff of community-based organizations who want to use the Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS (SISTA) intervention with Latina populations.

 

Developing an Evaluation Plan

As one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) funded capacity building assistance (CBA) providers, the Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program is tasked with providing CBA to community-based organizations (CBOs) across the U.S. and U.S. Territories. One of the most common requests for assistance involves the development of program evaluation plans. As evaluation plans are often an integral component of funding applications, we have compiled a list of resources that offer specific and applicable guidance on this topic. While this list is not exhaustive, the resources included here include manuals, workbooks and interactive online guides for developing an effective evaluation plan.

The BSSV Program is available to provide you with free CBA should you need more resources or information on developing your program evaluation plan. For more information on how to request free CBA please visit the "For CBOs" tab of this BSSV website. 

• Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan (PDF, 2.46MB) 
  Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) and Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO). Developed for use by program managers and evaluators, this guide offers guidance on a wide range of health promotion program evaluation topics including evaluation plan development.

• Evaluation Guide (PDF, 168KB) 
  Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Although originally intended for use in the evaluation of heart disease and stroke prevention activities, the basic principles of program evaluation and planning are applicable to all disease prevention/health promotion programs. 

• Evaluating Your Community Based Program (Part One [PDF, 1.15MB] and Part Two [PDF, 1.64MB])
  A guide developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program and focuses on issues unique to community based health promotion programs. It is a two-part guide structured in a workbook format and includes case studies to demonstrate the application of evaluation concepts. 

• Evaluation Plan Workbook (PDF, 978KB) 
  Developed by the Innovation Network, this evaluation plan tool is part of a larger program evaluation series. This online guide features interactive tools meant to offer step-by-step instruction through the evaluation planning process and even saves your work so you return to it at a later time.

• CDC Program Evaluation Resources
  The CDC offers an extensive list of program planning and evaluation resources that include step-by-step manuals on logic models, data collection and analysis, and evaluation of specific interventions.
  

HIV-Specific Resources

• CDC HIV/AIDS fact sheets

• Kaiser Permanente state health facts

• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)

• National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)

• National Association of People Living with AIDS (NAPWA)

• The Positive Project: HIV Positive Stories for the Greater Good

• Effective HIV Interventions

E-Newsletters

The BSSV Program will feature upcoming E-News highlights of program activities, new resources, CDC updates, news from the field and other exciting information.

• BSSV E-Newsletters
• CBO E-Newsletters

Fact Sheet Series

• Program Evaluation, Part 1: Program Planning (PDF, 147KB)
  Fundamental steps to planning your health program that are essential to quality implementation and evaluation.

• Program Evaluation, Part 2: Evaluation Plan (PDF, 195KB)
  A step-by-step guide to creating a comprehensive evaluation plan for your health program.

• Why Evaluate? (PDF, 100KB)
  Common myths about program evaluation, and how staff can benefit from these efforts to improve their work and better serve communities. 
  

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Series

Healthy Relationships
The Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Initiative is a unique mentoring plan that includes online training courses, face-to-face trainings, exchange webinar sessions and more.

Additional Resources

• Resource Center for Prevention with Persons Living with HIV

• Addressing Mental Health Issues to Improve HIV Prevention Intervention Outcomes (PDF, 1.21MB)
  Mental health problems can pose a particular challenge to the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions. This document outlines ways in which mental health problems can affect the outcome of HIV prevention interventions and how agencies can better address the mental health needs of consumers seeking HIV prevention services.

• Behavioral & Social Science Volunteer Program: Translating HIV prevention science into culturally relevant practice (PDF, 388KB)
  Information about the BSSV Program, staff and volunteers, program benefits and how we can help.   

• Quick facts about the Behavioral & Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program (PDF, 81KB) 
  How BSSVs can help CBOs and the benefits BSSV Program volunteers receive.

• CDC Capacity Building Site
  The CDC’s capacity building site with a description of what is CBA, who provides CBA, how to request CBA and CBA trainings offered. It also has information about the DEBIs and other resources relevant to HIV prevention.

• AIDS.gov
  This is the federal government’s main HIV/AIDS resource page. It includes information about HIV/AIDS basics, has federal government resources and the most up to date HIV/AIDS information.

• The Research Assistant
  The Research Assistant is a comprehensive source of tips, tools and information to navigate the world of behavioral science research, from formulating your question to getting your proposal funded.

• Project Ideas: Ideas for a healthier community has created a toolkit titled, HIV Prevention Toolkit: Tools to assist your organization to implement and improve HIV prevention programs in your community. This kit was created in order to share information that could benefit your department or organization in implementing and improving HIV prevention services and other programs.

• UNAIDS HIV Prevention Toolkit
  This online HIV Prevention Toolkit was developed for managers at the national and subnational levels who are managing/implementing HIV prevention programs/projects and are in the process of intensifying their HIV prevention efforts.

• The ADAPTT-ITT Model is a Novel Method of Adapting Evidence-Based HIV Interventions offers a framework for adapting HIV-related EBIs. It consists of eight sequential phases that inform HIV prevention providers and researchers of a prescriptive method for adapting EBIs.

  Original research, The ADAPT-ITT Model: A Novel Method of Adapting Evidence-Based HIV Preventions.

• CDC’s Procedural Guidance for Community Based Organizations (2009) (PDF, 2MB) will help you design prevention programs and recruitment strategies to promote counseling and testing, health education and risk reduction, and other prevention services.

• The Capacity Building Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at CDC

• Interventions designed for HIV/AIDS prevention under the DEBI (Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions) project

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