AIDS Partnership California

Program Development

CBO Resources > Program Development

The Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program
California AIDS Clearinghouse
Center for Community-Based Health Strategies/Academy for Educational Development
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies CTAP Program
Center for Community-Based Health Strategies (CCHS)
HIV Prevention among Injection Drug Users Technical Assistance
CompassPoint Non-Profit Services
The Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California
Non-profit GENIE
TechSoup.Org

The Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program
http://www.apa.org/pi/aids/bssv.html
The Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program is a national HIV prevention technical assistance program directed by the American Psychological Association's (APA) Office on AIDS. The BSSV Program has established a national network of behavioral and social science volunteers to assist with the implementation of HIV prevention community efforts. No direct telephone number, must contact at: bssv@apa.org.

California AIDS Clearinghouse
http://www.hivinfo.org/cacindex.shtml
The mission of the California AIDS Clearinghouse (CAC) is to provide appropriate and culturally sensitive technical assistance, educational materials, and support services to Education & Prevention Programs, and test sites funded by the State of California, Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS and to non-profit organizations in California. For more information, call the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Center at 323-993-7400.

California Technical Assistance Project (CTAP)
The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies,
University of California, San Francisco
http://www.caps.ucsf.edu
CTAP provides information and technical assistance about HIV prevention research and program evaluation. Contact the CTAP Warmline at 800-983-5550

Center for Community-Based Health Strategies (CCHS)
The Academy for Educational Development (AED)
http://www.aed.org
AED is an independent non-profit human and social development organization. Areas of focus include health, education, youth development, the environment, and leadership development. The Center for Community-based Health Strategies (CCHS) helps communities to develop methodologies and programs to address health problems. For more information, call (202) 884-8000.

HIV Prevention among Injection Drug Users Technical Assistance
http://www.healthstrategies.org/projects/domestic/p11.htm
CDC funds the Center for Community-Based Health Strategies (CCHS) to coordinate a technical assistance (TA) network consisting of national TA providers and local consultants. In an effort to improve the comprehensiveness, quality, and availability of HIV prevention programs for IDUs, the TA system will promote a comprehensive approach to prevention of HIV among IDUs, their partners and their families. Additionally, TA promotes the value of increasing local capacity to provide sound HIV prevention programs for IDUs and includes the development of materials and resources for providers. For more information, call (202) 884-8862.

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
http://www.compasspoint.org
CompassPoint is a non-profit training, consulting and research organization with offices in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley of Santa Clara County. CompassPoint provides non-profits with the management tools, concepts and strategies necessary to create change in agencies and communities. For more information, call (800) 886-2242.

The Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/program_evaluation/hiv/download.htm
The CDC publishes nine booklets in the Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education series. These booklets address evaluation of HIV policy, HIV curricula and HIV staff development programs, and may be used to assess the quality of HIV education programs at the state and local levels. All handbooks may be downloaded in PDF format. For more information from the CDC, call (English) (800) 342-2437 (AIDS); (Spanish) (800) 344-7432; or (Deaf/Hard of Hearing (TTY)) (800) 243-7889.

Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California
http://www.marcconline.org/home.html
The Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California provides technical assistance and training to increase and maintain cultural capacity and sexual diversity in the development and implementation of the California State Office of AIDS' HIV/AIDS education and prevention strategies by local health jurisdictions and their subcontractors, local community planning groups, and other statewide programs, which reduce the rates of HIV infection among diverse communities in California. For more information, call (800) 871-6688.

Non-Profit GENIE,
A Division of the California Management Assistance Partnership
http://www.genie.org
The California Management Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is a consortium of fourteen regional non-profit support organizations, providing training and technical assistance to local non-profit agencies. C-MAP maintains the Non-profit GENIE website as a free service to assist staff and board members manage their agencies more successfully. This site is strictly for use on the Internet and does not have a direct telephone number. There are partnership contacts throughout the State of California, go to http://search.genie.org/genie/cmap.lasso to find the partnership contact nearest you.

TechSoup.Org
http://www.techsoup.org
TechSoup is a comprehensive source of technology information for non-profit organizations. Information is provided by TechSoup's technology staff, and experts working both in the technology field and in community-based organizations. Visitors to this site may subscribe to an electronic newsletter. For more information, call (415) 512-7784.