San Francisco HIV Health Services
San Francisco, CA: Worked in collaboration with the San Francisco EMA HIV Services Planning Council and staff of HIV Health Services to facilitate and author both the 2006-2009 and the 2010-2012 San Francisco EMA Comprehensive HIV Health Services Plan. The project included planning and facilitating meetings to develop values and principles, key priorities, and specific service goals and objectives for HIV/AIDS services, incorporating consideration of growing HIV-infected populations and declining federal support for HIV services.
San Francisco HIV Health Services
San Francisco, CA: Worked in collaboration with the San Francisco EMA HIV Services Planning Council and staff of HIV Health Services to facilitate and author both the 2006-2009 and the 2010-2012 San Francisco EMA Comprehensive HIV Health Services Plan. The project included planning and facilitating meetings to develop values and principles, key priorities, and specific service goals and objectives for HIV/AIDS services, incorporating consideration of growing HIV-infected populations and declining federal support for HIV services.
Contra Costa County Health Services AIDS Program
Conducted primary research, collected data, and facilitated planning meeting to author the Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan 2010-2013, a blueprint for preventing spread of the HIV epidemic in Contra Costa County. The project included organizing a survey of high-risk men who have sex with men who accessed sex venues outside the county, and preparing a detailed set of objectives and milestones to measure the success of HIV prevention in the region.
AIDS Partnership California
San Francisco, CA: Authored several publications related to HIV funding in California, including Questions at the Crossroads: Surviving the Third Decade of HIV in California, defining key emerging issues in HIV care, prevention, and support; Completing the Circle: Designing HIV Prevention Programs for Persons of Color with HIV, a document relating the Partnership’s experience in implementing innovative prevention with positive programs in California ethnic minority agencies; and Challenge and Change: The Legacy and Future of Foundation Funding of HIV/AIDS in California, a report summarizing foundation leadership in supporting HIV, and encouraging ongoing private sector HIV participation and funding.
Oakland EMA HIV Services Planning Council
Coordinated and served as sole writer for both the 2002-2005 and the 2006-2008 Comprehensive HIV Services Plan for the Oakland EMA, a region encompassing Alameda and Contra Costa County in Northern California. The planning process for the three-year Plans included coordination and facilitation of a Planning Task Force, and integration with the work of four district Planning Council Committees.
California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA
Served as sole writer for the 2002-2006 Comprehensive HIV Services Plan for the State of California. The 18-month planning process leading up to production of the document in December 2002 incorporated quarterly meetings of both a Consumer Advisory Committee and a Care Services Advisory Committee – the former made up of persons living with HIV/AIDS, and the latter composed of community-based HIV/AIDS service providers and planners. The three-year recommendations contained in the Plan will guide the HIV service efforts and priorities of the nation’s most populous state through 2006 and beyond.
California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA
Coordinated the planning process and served as sole writer for the 2002 Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan for the State of California. Working with a Plan Task Force and the California HIV Prevention Group, I conducted and coordinated all research for the Plan, and drafted virtually every one of the document’s 350 pages. The Plan’s highlight is a series of sections describing prevention issues, needs, and up-to-date strategies for 22 different HIV-affected populations, many of whom have been historically under addressed throughout the course of the epidemic.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Researched and wrote the ambitious Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness in America, an aggressive blueprint for action designed to re-energize the nation’s efforts to address and solve homelessness. Conducted primary research on homelessness studies and data, and worked with the Alliance staff to hone and focus goals, objectives, and action steps for all components of the Plan. The Plan has served as a key policy touchstone in the field of homelessness.
California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA
Authored the first two editions of the state’s Statewide Coordinated Statement of HIV/AIDS Needs, a collaborative policy document charting the future course of HIV/AIDS care and services in California, and highlighting key emerging issues in AIDS financing, organization, and service delivery. Production of the document both in 1999 and 2001 involved incorporating written responses from all 54 California grantees of the Ryan White Emergency CARE Act, as well as a series of focus groups with people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the state.
Public Media Center, San Francisco, CA
Conducting all research and writing for a national report on religious responses to HIV/AIDS funded by the Ford Foundation, entitled Faith & AIDS. Personally conducted full-scale interviews with 45 representatives on national, regional, and community-based faith programs responding to AIDS, and served as sole author of the resulting report. The report, released in conjunction with the White House in December 1997, has been distributed nationally to an audience of legislators, AIDS service organizations, faith-based organizations, and religious and mainstream media.
Public Media Center, San Francisco, CA
Author of an informational packet distributed throughout California describing the scope and origins of the teen pregnancy crisis in the state, entitled “Preventing Teen Pregnancy: An Adult Responsibility”. The packet was the first major publication of the California Wellness Foundation’s Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Initiative.
Public Media Center, San Francisco, CA
Author of a nationally-recognized report on the effects of stigma on America’s response to the HIV epidemic: “The Impact of Homophobia and Other Social Biases on AIDS”. Over 30,000 copies of the Ford Foundation-funded report – now in its fourth printing – have been distributed to planners, policymakers, government officials, and community activists nationwide. The report has had a significant impact on the recognition of homophobia as a key bias underlying many health and social issues in the U.S.