Overview:

BAI’s trainings are for individuals and groups looking to better understand and engage disenfranchised communities across the United States; we apply an unapologetically-Black lens to each session and move from general knowledge to action steps. 

Program Planning

In this training, participants learn the important process of planning for change. Participants learn how to create a program rationale, develop a planning committee, assess community needs, identify an appropriate framework/model, as well as create goals and SMART objectives.

Program Implementation

This training is the basis of putting a program plan into action. Participants learn to coordinate resources, market the program to the priority population, and create a logic model to visualize the link among all program activities and desired outcomes. 

Program Monitoring & Evaluation

In this training, participants learn the CDC-identified framework for program evaluation, as well as how to select and implement an evaluation design. Topics include data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as how to disseminate findings to audiences of various backgrounds and literacy levels.

Public Health Information Dissemination

Information dissemination training equips participants with the skills to create and distribute written and graphically-designed materials to priority communities in a manner that is culturally relevant and appropriate to various backgrounds and literacy levels. Participants learn to create infographics from dense research content, as well as to optimize social media, radio, and television for dissemination to the public.

Creating Community Needs Assessments

In this training, participants learn the 6 steps of assessing community needs. Topics include: determining the purpose and scope of the assessment; conducting a literature search; gathering and analyzing data; identifying health problem risk factors; and identifying the program’s focus.

Racial Equity and Advocacy Workshop Series

Training workshops in this series revolve around creating a foundation of understanding about race, implicit/explicit bias, discrimination, and systemic effects on health and wellness outcomes. By the end of this training series, participants are able to differentiate among implicit bias, explicit bias, and discrimination; identify types and outcomes of structural/systemic racism, and strategize next steps in advocating for equitable wellness.

Medical Mistrust in the Era of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19

Black Americans’ general mistrust of biomedicine is deeply rooted in White supremacy and centuries of overt efforts to justify medical mistreatment. Immediate action is needed to finally stem the negative health effects and mistrust arising from the perpetual oppression and exploitation of Black bodies. This training outlines the history of medical mistreatment among Black Americans, reviews the ways this history continues to exacerbate mistrust, and explores opportunities to erode that mistrust for better uptake of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 prevention and intervention strategies in Black communities. 

PrEP Implementation (e.g., Among Black Communities, Among Black Women)

Become a PrEP champion by learning organization-specific strategies to increase knowledge and uptake of PrEP in Black communities, including among MSM and Black women. This training is ideal for organizational staff, as well as community educators and advocates.

HIV Criminalization and Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration disproportionately affects Black Americans in the United States. It also drives the HIV epidemic in Black communities, due to community disruption and lack of care upon release. Participants in this training learn how discriminatory criminalization laws affect Black Americans living with HIV, as well as how to become community advocates to battle mass incarceration’s effects on HIV care and retention.

Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

This training discusses how gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with race and other aspects of identity. Participants are able to describe strategies to create HIV prevention and care programs that acknowledge and address disparities caused by intersecting oppressions. 

Stigma

Participants are able to better understand stigma and ways to measure it as a barrier to care. Topics include limiting organizational stigma and providing a higher quality of client care to your clients. 

For more information, or to create a customized plan for your department or organization, please contact Tenesha Lewis, Senior Manager, Training and Capacity Building.