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What
is a NASTAD Peer? |
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NASTAD maintains
a roster of peers from health departments and NASTAD
staff who can provide technical assistance.
A NASTAD peer:
- works in a state or local health department
- has programmatic responsibility for a particular
HIV/AIDS care/treatment or prevention or viral hepatitis
service or planning activity, evaluation, or surveillance
system
- has volunteered to work with other states/cities
on their specific area(s) of expertise
- can provide ideas for how a jurisdiction might
want to address an issue, based on the experience
and expertise in their own jurisdiction. HIV prevention
community planning group (CPG) co-chairs and youth
peers are also available to provide technical assistance
through NASTAD’s system.
To become a NASTAD peer, please complete the online
Peer TA Survey Form.
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How
Does NASTAD TA Help? |
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NASTAD peers can help a jurisdiction in several ways.
A peer can:
- provide specific examples, models, or tools that
another jurisdiction can adapt for their own use,
rather than reinventing the wheel.
- help the requesting jurisdiction understand how
a tool or model was developed.
- provide insight into how to handle a particular
issue, based on the experiences of their own jurisdiction.
- help the requestor problem solve, or assist with
strategic and participatory planning
- consult on technical aspects of programs or participate
in review panels.
- provide mentoring and encouragement to colleagues
in other jurisdictions who are new to their positions
or in need of help navigating the public health
role in HIV/AIDS prevention, care/treatment or viral
hepatitis in their jurisdictions.
example
In state X, the HIV prevention planning group
(CPG) decided that they wanted to improve their
priority-setting process, and asked NASTAD for
help from a peer in another jurisdiction. NASTAD
worked with the CPG, the health department, and
the CDC project officer to identify a health department
co-chair in another jurisdiction. That co-chair
traveled to state X to meet with the CPG and explained
the process they used in their jurisdiction. |
example
The AIDS director from state Y was relatively
new and wanted some assistance in conducting an
assessment of the AIDS programs’ organizational
structure, and with developing a strategic plan
for the department. The AIDS director contacted
NASTAD, who identified a fellow AIDS director
from a jurisdiction with a similar structure.
The experienced AIDS director consulted with the
novice AIDS director over the phone. Eventually
the peer visited the new AIDS director and his
staff, and reviewed the current structure. The
peer AIDS director left strategic planning materials
he had used successfully in his jurisdiction to
help the new AIDS director reorganize the AIDS
program in his own jurisdiction. |
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How
Does TA Work? |
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NASTAD staff
members work with federal and national partners, as
well as the requesting jurisdiction, to respond to identified
TA requests by helping diagnose the need, determine
a peer match and identify goals for the TA as well as
arranging the logistics for the peer TA consultation
and evaluating the results. NASTAD’s domestic
peer TA is consumer-driven, meaning that NASTAD supports
peer TA upon request from specific jurisdictions. An
AIDS director/health department or planning group may
request NASTAD peer TA.
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What
is the process for NASTAD’s HIV Prevention and
Viral Hepatitis TA Work? |
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- upon receipt of a peer TA
request, NASTAD initiates a process to identify
a peer whose expertise appropriately matches the
particular TA request
- NASTAD works in collaboration with CDC and other
TA providers to ensure that TA is appropriately
coordinated.
- NASTAD continues to work with the requesting
jurisdiction during the entire TA process, to make
sure that the identified NASTAD peer TA best meets
the requesting jurisdiction’s needs.
- after an on-site peer TA consultation is completed,
NASTAD receives written feedback from the requesting
jurisdiction and follows-up to ensure that TA needs
have been met. NASTAD asks requesting jurisdictions
to evaluate the TA they receive, so that NASTAD
can continue to improve its peer TA system.
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| Q. |
What
is the Process for NASTAD’s HIV/AIDS Care/Treatment
and Medicaid Managed Care TA work? |
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NASTAD is specifically
funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) to provide TA on AIDS Drug Assistance
Programs (ADAPs). NASTAD links health department
peers, facilitates communication, provides materials
and TA tools to ensure that ADAPs can provide cost effectives
and comprehensive programs to their clients. TA can
be accessed through a variety of options depending upon
the need. Individuals can request resources and referrals
through NASTAD’s ADAP listserv, submit an online
request for more intensive TA on NASTAD’s website,
or contact Care and Treatment staff directly to schedule
a TA consultation.
Title II TA. Although NASTAD is
funded specifically for ADAP TA, Title II grantees
also have access to their peers through the Title
II Coordinators listserv. TA requests that go beyond
this scope can be submitted to NASTAD through the
online request form or to NASTAD staff directly. If
NASTAD’s capacity is limited, an additional
request can be submitted through the program’s
HRSA project officers;
NASTAD suggests that state health departments specifically
request TA from their peers.
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What
is the Process for NASTAD’s Global TA Work? |
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The Global program
responds to identified needs and priorities of country
Ministries of Health, National AIDS Control Programs,
and CDC through peer-based technical assistance, delegation
visits, and workshops/trainings. Country-specific teams
are assembled with AIDS program directors and staff
(3 to 6 individuals) to provide on-going TA. Click on
the Global Program page for more information.
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