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Peer Educator Training
Sites (PETS)
Peer Educator
Training Sites (PETS) is a three-year HRSA-funded project under
the Minority AIDS Initiative, begun in October 2002 with the goal
of training peer educators to work with people infected by or at
high risk for HIV through outreach, education, and advocacy services.
The PETS projects expand the number of peer educators who are trained
as educators/leaders, and implement a training curriculum designed
to bring more people at-risk for or living with HIV into testing,
counseling, and care. PETS are designed to complement the work of
the AIDS Education and Training Centers and the National AIDS Minority
Education and Training Center initiatives.
PETS grantees
work in partnership with affiliated community-based organizations
(CBOs), providing them with technical assistance to build their
organizational capacity to utilize peer educators. Together they
identify, train, and supervise peer educators to provide critical
information on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and support services
to people of color and hard-to-reach populations. The PETS grantees
are: The AIDS Foundation, Houston,
Inc. (TX), Circulo
de la Hispanidad, Inc. (NY), Duke
University Medical Center (NC), and the Shanti
California Peer Educator Project (CA).
In June 2003
Health Watch Information
and Promotion Service, the Resource and Evaluation Center for
PETS, subcontracted with the Health and Disability Working Group
to design and conduct the multi-site evaluation of the PETS program.
The multi-site evaluation will measure whether PETS have met HRSA’s
objectives:
- To enhance
knowledge, skills and practices of the peer educators; to measure
changes in behavior and attitudes.
- To improve
the care-seeking practices and adherence to treatment of consumers
living with HIV/AIDS; to increase the testing and counseling services
for consumers at risk of HIV/AIDS.
- To increase
the CBOs’ organizational capacity to deliver services; to put
systems in place for future self-monitoring.
Working together
with Health Watch and the participating PETS grantees, HDWG developed
key study questions for the multi-site evaluation,
as well as the multi-site survey instruments and
protocols to answer these questions.
Project Staff:
Carol Tobias, Serena
Rajabiun, Rowland Yancey, Steve
Finch.
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