Acción Mutua CBA Services
Acción Mutua provides capacity building services through three delivery methods:
- Individual-level direct consulation
- Group trainings, workshops and Web Seminars
- Information and technology transfer through the Acción Mutua Resource Center.
These services are guided by a team of behavioral scientists and a community advisory board to best meet the diverse needs of Latino communities.
To date, Acción Mutua has provided workshops and trainings to more than 19 community-based organizations and 14 health departments. Acción Mutua has provided individual consultation to seven directly and indirectly funded community-based organizations.
Individual-Level Direct CBA Services
Our technical expertise includes:
- Adapting DEBI for Latino Populations
- Adapting programs for Latino MSM
- HIV prevention materials development
- Community and program needs assessments (formative research)
- DEBI program marketing
- Recruitment and retention
- Culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate strategies to prevention
- Program montoring and process evaluation (quality assurance)
- Other areas, based on individual requests
All individual-level consulation services are tailored to the needs of the organization requesting CBA. The most appropriate team is assembled to provide a feasible and creative solution to the organization's challenges.
Group Trainings, Workshops and Web Seminars
Acción Mutua provides workshops, trainings, Web seminars, and institutes to meet the demands of various organizations with similar needs. These group-level services provide skills-building exercises and tools that assist an organization to develp capacity in an adult learning environment.
Trainings and Workshop topics include:
- Community and program needs assessment/formative research
- Conducting and analyzing focus groups
- Excel database management
- Group facilitation
- Motivational interviewing
- Program evaluation
- Recruitment and retention
Web seminars:
Power Point presentations of discussions of specific high-risk communities or special topics related to capacity building to implement HIV prevention for Latinos. The presentations posted on this site were previously broadcast through teleconferences and Internet presentations. Click on a link below to view a presentation.
- Latino Gay Men - ppt
The Acción Mutua Resource Center provides population-specific broadsheets and skills-based technical bulletins to facilitate and sustain capacity building efforts.
To date, Acción Mutua has created and distributed several educational materials:
Broadsheets by specific target population
Technical bulletins:
- Evaluation Series
- Recruitment Series
- Formative Research/Community Needs Assessment Series
