Take a look at the projects we are working on
We are developing and implementing cutting edge work to End the HIV Epidemic in numerous locations across the US, including New Jersey, New York, Texas, and through national partners in Washington, DC.
Patient-Reported Outcome and Evaluation Measures (TX)
RAI staff is engaged in a multi-year process to specify and validate patient-reported outcome and evaluation measures in Dallas.
Once a pilot measure is specified by a workgroup made up of provider and community stakeholders, focus groups of other community members are convened to complete psychometric testing of the measures.
Storytelling to EHE (NJ)
We are working with a range of partners in NJ to collect expansive qualitative data from community through four storytelling activities for the purpose of EHE Planning.
The specific groups invited to the storytelling activities are identified using molecular surveillance, service utilization, and health outcome data with a disparities lens.
We’ll share stories of the lived experience of diverse groups over time. In this model, the storytellers themselves are the primary audience to review and interpret qualitative data in comparison with survey data collected contemporaneously to the storytelling activities.
HIV Community Curriculum (NY)
While there are many training and development curricula to assist people with HIV become involved in local and regional HIV planning, the training competencies are defined by policymakers or service providers instead of the community. Our curriculum is based on what the community wants and needs from its own perspectives and plugs into where established curricula pick up. Our curriculum fills several important gaps.
Evidence-based Co-Design to End the HIV Epidemic (TX)
Large cross-sectoral partnerships like the one envisioned in EHE are often challenged by the range of stakeholders involved and the radically different ways they communicate, problem-solve, and work together. This project is rooted in assisting government leads to reimagine their activities on a strengths-basis (i.e., elected leaders, health departments, the business community, the provider community, and the service community are all seen as partners with equally important roles and clout in creating an ideal future state.
Public/Private partnership development (NJ)
The American economy is based on a free market where businesses of all sizes are seen as an active part of civil society and function as corporate citizens. This project is based on assisting health departments, and other players, realize what is in their locus of control and seeking partners to help address issues that are outside that locus of control (i..e, helping government work better together across units like Medicaid, HIV, transportation, and housing in addition to helping government foster stronger relationships with local business and big business enterprises).
Respondent-Driven Sampling Needs Assessments (TX)
Standard needs assessments barely scratch the surface when it comes to identifying community needs. Traditionally, needs assessments have poor response rates, are not adequately powered to identify statistically significant patterns of need, and are incapable of describing unmet need. RAI uses respondent-driven sampling to ensure a wide swath of a community shares its perspectives on service needs and the ability to have those needs met. Our team’s lived experience informs the creation of survey instruments and other tools to triangulate, people, places, and needs so that our clients know what action-oriented steps to make based on results.