Community Input and Participation
CAPS is committed to ensuring that our research incorporates the insights and priorities of affected communities, and that HIV prevention science is available and used by community stakeholders in their programs and policies. The Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core is charged with implementing this committment.
The work of the TIE Core is characterized by continuous innovation in the integration, translation and application of HIV prevention science to HIV prevention practice. We foster and maintain bi-direction comunication and collaboration through three main mechanisms:
Community Engagement
creating valuable linkages between CAPS scientists and key HIV prevention stakeholders, including service providers, policy makers and funders.
- Responding to TA requests
- Community Advisory Board
- Community Town Halls
- Training CAPS scientists
- Training for CBOs
Dissemination
The TIE Core has pioneered some of the most innovative research synthesis methods and dissemination vehicles for HIV prevention in the US.
- HIV Prevention Fact Sheets
- CAPS website
- CAPS Conference
- Science-to-Community reports
- Annual Research Portfolio
- CAPS Community Advisory Board (CAB)- Recommendations for Research Dissemination
- CAPS CAB - Annual Innovative Dissemination Award
Community Collaborative Research
- Working Together manual
- Legacy Project
- Implicit Theories project
- The Statewide Community HIV Evaluation Project (SCHEP)
- CAPS/NCG HIV Prevention Initiative