Abstract
In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Project PrIDE, a national initiative to implement and evaluate demonstration projects to increase PrEP uptake among HIV-negative individuals and to re-engage HIV-positive individuals in HIV care. Our team served as the Evaluation Center for Project PrIDE organizations in Chicago and used an empowerment evaluation (EE) approach to enhance evaluation capacity at these organizations. To evaluate our approach, we assessed organizations’ evaluation capacity and engagement in technical assistance and capacity building activities in 2016 and 2018. Respondents who self-reported higher engagement with the Evaluation Center and who spent a greater number of hours engaged with our evaluators experienced greater increases in evaluation capacity tied to implementation of evaluation activities and technical assistance utilization. These findings demonstrate that multisite EE can be successfully applied to increase the evaluation capacity of organizations providing both HIV prevention and care services.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 137-151 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | AIDS Education and Prevention |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2020 |
Funding
Lauren B. Beach, PhD, JD, Emma Reidy, MA, Rachel Marro, BA, Peter Lindeman, MA, Gregory Phillips II, PhD, and George J. Greene, PhD, are affiliated with the Department of Medical Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Lauren B. Beach, Emma Reidy, Rachel Marro, Peter Lindeman, and Gregory Phillips II are also affiliated with the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University. Amy K. Johnson, PhD, is affiliated with the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Patrick Stonehouse, AM, is affiliated with the HIV/STI Bureau, Chicago Department of Public Health. We would like to thank the 15 HIV health services organizations in Chicago that implemented local Project PrIDE initiatives and participated in the planning and implementation of the site-specific and multisite evaluations. Similarly, we want to acknowledge staff at the Chicago Department of Public Health for collaborating in our work with these organizations, specifically, Evelyn Green, Erika Harding, David Kern, Jeff Lauritsen, Monique Millington, and Stephanie Masiello Schuette. This manuscript was supported by We would like to thank the 15 HIV health services organizations in Chicago that implemented local Project PrIDE initiatives and participated in the planning and implementation of the site-specific and multisite evaluations. Similarly, we want to acknowledge staff at the Chicago Department of Public Health for collaborating in our work with these organizations, specifically, Evelyn Green, Erika Harding, David Kern, Jeff Lauritsen, Monique Millington, and Stephanie Masiello Schuette. This manuscript was supported by grant from the Chicago Department of Public Health to evaluate PrEP and Data to Care demonstration projects in Chicago (RFP # DA-41-3350-11-2014-003).
Keywords
- Data to Care
- Empowerment evaluation
- HIV prevention
- Pe-exposure prophylaxis
- Project PrIDE
- Sexual and gender minorities
- Transgender persons
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
