• Number of individuals who participated in OMH-supported group training and mentoring for health care providers and other professionals.
• Number of texts, manuscripts, or other articles in peer-reviewed journals or other venues
• Number and percent of individuals with increased awareness and knowledge of racial/ethnic minority health problems and how to address them.
• Number and percent of individuals with improved skills that will contribute to improved racial/ethnic minority health and reduced health disparities
• Number and percent of individuals with improved skills with will contribute to improve racial/ethnic minority health and …show more content…
These included:
• An informal evaluation of how individual providers, Tribal Health Organizations, and social service agencies are using the safety cards took place during Q2 through conversations with a diverse set of key informants.
• The online training developed by ANTHC has built-in pre and post-tests. Users requesting CEU credit for the online training will be required to participate in the online pre and post-tests, which will evaluate knowledge change.
• The grantee tracked policy changes that their project impacted. This was done through the project tracking/records created by project staff in excel.
• Grantee plans to do some sort of survey and stakeholder interviews with tribal health organizations and other health leaders she’s trained or worked with to ask about changes in practice.
Evidence of Intervention Effectiveness
Project successfully utilized collaborative partnerships. Over the course of the grant period, ANTHC formed successful and effective partnerships with nine different organizations who expanded the reach of the project activities and …show more content…
On a survey fielded during the 4th year of the grant period, over 2/3 of respondents found the technical assistance “Very Helpful.”
Increased knowledge base and awareness related to DV/SV affecting AN/AI people. Over the five-year grant period, project staff gave 27 presentation on data regarding DV/SV impacting AN/AI populations. In total, 648 people attended these presentations.
SV/DV trainings improved awareness and practices of health care providers. Approximately 50% of 17 respondents to the grantee’s post-training survey reported that they were using the safety card in some way. The majority of respondents were fulfilling basic competencies “most of the time” and most felt comfortable “offering a validating response to disclosures” of DV/SV.
Grantee advocacy influenced policy changes. ANTHC spent resources advocating for policy change that would improve access to data about DV/SV and improve cultural competency of providers. During the grant period, ANTHC achieved policy change in two ways, first, by contributing to updating the Alaska Community Health Aide practitioner manual to include cultural competency, and by getting Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) included in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance