2023 Southern CBO Summit Highlights
The Southern CBO Summit (SCS) is a learning collaborative comprised of HIV prevention workforce leaders who are working at community-based organizations (CBO) in the southern United States. The 2023 SCS was held on January 9-11, 2023 at the Hyatt Centric Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This summit brought together more than 50 community leaders for a multi-day event to focus on leadership development. The goal of the summit was to share best practices, refine leadership approaches, and promote innovative solutions for the implementation of high-impact HIV prevention strategies.
Learning Objectives
After this attending this summit, participants were able to:
- Identify key leadership approaches for HIV prevention staff in Southern Community-Based Organizations by leveraging peer-to-peer expertise from across the entire region.
- Leverage principles of health equity, storytelling, policy, and stigma reduction to grow community impact and develop programmatic priorities.
- Build on existing opportunities for growth, navigate gaps in success, and scale-up strategies for more effective delivery of HIV prevention services in the South.
Download the 2023 SCS agenda
This workshop was designed for CBO HIV prevention program staff. Moreover, the workshop was open ONLY to participants from CDC directly-funded CBOs in the Southern CBA region of the U.S (including Alabama, Arkansas, Baltimore, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Houston, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia).