Our services

Training

• 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 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 COVID-19 prevention and intervention strategies in Black communities. 

• 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.

Technical Assistance

• Strategic Planning

  • Planning strategies include: disease prevention programs; programs to address systemic injustice; connecting with Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and MSM communities; and reducing stigma in communities of color.

• Program Planning and Evaluation

  • Abloom coordinates a group’s planning and/or evaluation method(s), assisting with the design of the overall process, as well as the actionable steps to see the process through to completion. 

• Community Needs Assessment

  • Abloom guides departments and organizations through the 6 steps of assessing community needs. Together, we will determine the purpose and scope of the assessment; conduct a literature search; gather and analyze data; as well as identify health problem risk factors.

• Grassroots Organization & Coalition Building

  • To end health disparities, communities must be fully empowered to organize and advocate for their needs. Abloom guides groups into building coalitions, forming campaigns, and utilizing existing resources to achieve necessary outcomes. 

• Recruitment for Behavioral Interventions

  • Together with Abloom, departments and organizations plan recruitment strategies to attract priority populations, such as Black same-gender loving (SGL) men and Black women, to services and retain them throughout care. 

Facilitation

• Focus Groups

  • Focus groups are ideal to receive opinions, suggestions, and reactions before an initiative is made available to the larger public. 

• Focused Conversations

  • Abloom is skilled in facilitating targeted conversations that efficiently move from initial responses to a topic to interpretations and conclusions with clear next steps. This is an ideal tool for discussing difficult topics or navigating a complex idea in a short period of time and with everyone’s input taken into account.    

• Consensus Workshops

  • The goal of a consensus workshop is to have a group come to a consensus, or general agreement, about a topic. This workshop begins with a focused question and allows for brainstorming. Later, the group organizes ideas into clusters, identifying core ideas from each cluster and determining next steps to move the ideas forward.  

• Action Planning Workshops

  • For groups with a general idea or initiative in mind, this workshop uses a series of steps to create a focused, actionable timeline for planning and implementation. 

• Strategic Planning Workshops

  • The strategic planning process begins with a group’s development of a shared vision and identification of any barriers to progress. The group is then guided into the development of strategic actions and a plan to implement the strategies.