iCBA helps agencies answer the ever-growing number of questions that surround the implementation of high-quality Internet-based initiatives
How are these kinds of interventions implemented?
What are the costs associated with implementing an Internet-based intervention?
How do we train staff to deliver HIV/AIDS/STI prevention information through this medium?
How do we monitor staff to ensure they are not misrepresenting the agency or putting us at risk?
Should we use volunteers or peers to conduct this work?
How can we reach populations other than MSM on the Internet?
Is there potential for liability in working with minors online?
How do we know it works?
Health Departments and community based organizations (CBOs) across the country are struggling to understand and address the impact of the Internet on public health concerns: trends such as MSM use of the Internet for sex and drug-seeking behavior; young people’s use of the Internet for networking and sexual health-seeking purposes; minority households’ exponential increase in Internet connectivity; and the many new and innovative approaches to identifying and addressing this changing public health landscape that seem to emerge daily. Unfortunately, there is a significant shortage of experts available to assist organizations in the development, implementation and evaluation of Internet-based health promotion and disease prevention strategies.
Nonprofit Consulting Services’ Internet-based Initiatives Capacity Building Assistance (iCBA) program works with health departments and community based organizations to build their capacity to envision, design, implement and evaluate cutting edge Internet-based health promotion and disease prevention strategies.
iCBA assists agencies to:
- Develop sound infrastructural components of Internet-based health promotion and HIV/STI prevention programming
- Increase staff capacity to deliver web-based health promotion and HIV/STI prevention services to a variety of target populations
- Develop protocols, policies and procedures for conducting consistent, ethical and confidential Internet-based health services
- Increase staff and agency capacity to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet-based efforts
- Increase agency capacity to monitor and manage front-line Internet-based staff
- Increase management and agency capacity to ensure staff privacy and safety
- Reduce the potential for compulsive Internet use by staff
- Decrease agency liability associated with working with minors
- Increase staff and agency capacity to utilize mobile communication technologies in the delivery of health and prevention services
For more information about iCBA, please email Kenny Neal Shults, Senior Management Consultant, or call 646 619-6509.