Track 2 – PREVENTION WITH POSITIVES Project Progress Report January 1 – June 2013 Minnesota Department of Health HIV/STD Prevention Projects Agency name: Project name: (If applicable) ENGAGEMENT & RECRUITMENT Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): NOTE: If your project includes a specific focus on partners of people with HIV, fill in this box. Total Number of Partners Reached/Served (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where engagement and recruitment took place: Discuss the successes experienced in engaging and recruiting seropositive individuals as well as their sexual and needle sharing partners: Discuss the challenges experienced in engaging and recruiting seropositive individuals as well as their sexual and needle sharing partners: NOTE: Only fill out those intervention sections that apply to your project. INTERVENTIONS Individual Level Intervention (ILI): NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Individual Level Intervention took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Individual Level Intervention: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Individual Level Intervention: Individual Level Intervention (ILI): NOTE: If only doing one ILI, skip this section. NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Individual Level Intervention took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Individual Level Intervention: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Individual Level Intervention: Group Level Intervention: NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): Number of Times GLI Cycle Completed: List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Group Level Intervention took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Group Level Intervention: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Group Level Intervention: Group Level Intervention: NOTE: If only doing one GLI, skip this section. NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): Number of Times GLI Cycle Completed: List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Group Level Intervention took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Group Level Intervention: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Group Level Intervention: Individual Risk Reduction Counseling (IRRC): NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling: Individual Risk Reduction Counseling (IRRC): NOTE: If only doing one IRRC, skip this section. NOTE: If your project includes partners of people with HIV, include that information in your responses. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Reached/Served (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling took place: Discuss the successes experienced in conducting the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling: Discuss the challenges experienced in conducting the Individual Risk Reduction Counseling: CONNECTION to CARE Discuss the successes experienced in linking seropositive individuals with appropriate care, treatment, and/or prevention services: Discuss the challenges experienced in linking seropositive individuals with appropriate care, treatment, and/or prevention services: Discuss the successes experienced in engaging clients’ sexual and needle sharing partners in testing and other appropriate services: Discuss the challenges experienced in engaging clients’ sexual and needle sharing partners in testing and other appropriate services: RETENTION & RE-ENGAGEMENT in CARE Discuss the successes experienced in promoting retention or re-engagement in care for HIV-positive persons: Discuss the challenges experienced in promoting retention or re-engagement in care for HIV-positive persons: MEDICATION ADHERENCE Discuss the successes experienced in promoting medication adherence for HIV-positive persons: Discuss the challenges experienced in promoting medication adherence for HIV-positive persons: REFERRALS Discuss the successes experienced referring or connecting HIV positive persons to other appropriate medical or social services: Discuss the challenges experienced referring or connecting HIV positive persons to other appropriate medical or social services: HIV TESTING NOTE: If you do not do HIV testing, check here. Total Number Projected (Jan-June): Total Number Tested (Jan-June): List the location(s)/setting(s) where the testing sessions took place: Discuss the successes experienced in reaching the partners of people with HIV and conducting HIV testing: Discuss the challenges experienced in reaching the partners of people with HIV and conducting HIV testing: Discuss the successes in connecting clients to confirmatory test and/or linking to care: Discuss the challenges in connecting clients to confirmatory test and/or linking to care: CO-FACTORS Discuss successes and challenges in addressing the selected co-factors for your target population(s): CONDOM DISTRIBUTION Describe the successes in distributing condoms to people at highest risk for transmitting/acquiring HIV: Describe the challenges in distributing condoms to people at highest risk for transmitting/acquiring HIV: CONDOM DISTRIBUTION ▪ Enter the estimated number of male and female condoms distributed during the past six months within each of the following categories. ▪ If you distribute safer sex kits, count the number of condoms contained in each kit. Condoms Distributed To # of Condoms HIV positive individuals High risk individuals who are HIV negative or whose status is unknown All others (e.g., individuals whose level of risk is unknown) Total 0 INTEGRATION Describe how the project integrated health education and risk reduction regarding STDs and hepatitis A, B & C into the prevention project: TARGET POPULATION INPUT Describe the successes related to implementing your Target Population Input Plan: Describe the challenges related to implementing your Target Population Input Plan: Describe how you incorporated this input into your program (including materials, web pages, curricula, brochures, posters, etc.): MONITORING & EVALUATION Discuss successes and challenges associated with collecting required data: How did you use the collected data? Describe how the implementation of project activities has been monitored and evaluated: INCENTIVES NOTE: If you do not utilize incentives, check here. Discuss any successes in utilizing incentives: Discuss any challenges in utilizing incentives: QUALITY ASSURANCE Describe specific actions taken by program supervisors to monitor whether activities are being implemented as designed and documentation is complete: Describe any challenges experienced with ensuring project activities were accessible to your intended target population: Describe any changes that will be made to the Project Work Plan or to how an activity is implemented: Describe any agency-wide quality assurance measures that affected this project: CAPACITY BUILDING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Provide the information in the table below for training sessions attended by each staff member during the reporting period, as well as any additional staff development activities. (Do not list non-training meetings.) Project Staff Training (add rows as needed) Dates Training Topic(s) Training Provider Staff Member(s) How have you used this training in your work? Recommend to other grantees? Describe any assistance or training needed to address the challenges faced when implementing your interventions. Indicate if and when the assistance was already provided: Identify types of training or technical assistance that would be most helpful in building agency infrastructure (e.g., finance, board development, grant writing, staff recruitment and retention, etc.) and capacity to plan, deliver and/or evaluate your program: NOTE: Requests for specific training or technical assistance can be placed through the MDH HIV Prevention Project Portal. Describe any barriers to accessing training or technical assistance: STAFFING NOTE: If there were no changes or challenges regarding staff, check here. Discuss any changes in staff and/ or staff responsibilities during the reporting period: Discuss any challenges you experienced in hiring and maintaining staff (as well as individuals responsible for supervising those who are conducting the project activities): ADDITIONAL COMMENTS Describe any additional information that you think is important for MDH to know: