Our Impact
CAI’s impact is delivered through projects that use our capacity-building expertise to strengthen health and social services. We lead dozens of active projects, working closely with funders, partners, and clients, and engaging external experts when needed. Projects are staffed by CAI team members with expertise in both the subject matter and the capacity-building strategies that the project utilizes.
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- Training
- Tobacco Use
- Technical Assistance
- Substance Use
- Sexual Violence Prevention
- Research and Evaluation
- Mental Health
- Maternal and Child Health
- Materials Development
- Leadership and Multidisciplinary Team Building
- HIV and STIs
- Data-driven Strategies
- Curriculum
- Community Engagement
- Adolescent Health
- April 20, 2022
- Community Engagement, Research and Evaluation, Tobacco Use
Black People Against Tobacco (Project BAT)
Summary: This project helps decrease tobacco use disparities in Jackson, Mississippi, and the surrounding region through authentic community engagement with Black residents to address social norms about smoking. It also helps build community-level capacity to advocate for tobacco prevention policies and practices.
- March 2, 2022
- Community Engagement, Maternal and Child Health, Research and Evaluation
EMPOWER: A Maternal Health Inequities Research Study
Summary: This project is researching service-delivery models that improve early detection and control of postpartum hypertension and the social and mental health factors that impact high rates of maternal mortality.
- March 1, 2022
- Adolescent Health, Community Engagement
HOPE Buffalo – Optimally Changing the MAP for Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Summary: This project aims to increase optimal teen health and reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates for adolescents aged 10-19 in Buffalo, New York.
- February 22, 2022
- Community Engagement, HIV and STIs, Leadership and Multidisciplinary Team Building, Training
Leadership Training Institute (LTI)
Summary: This project is a peer-to-peer training program “by and for” the New York State community of people with HIV. The continually evolving project fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy among people with HIV to manage their health and advocate for themselves.
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- February 10, 2022
- Community Engagement, Tobacco Use, Training
National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery
Summary: CAI is engaging behavioral health providers, state agencies, tobacco-users, and other stakeholders in efforts to reduce the high rate of commercial tobacco use among people with mental and substance use conditions.
- December 23, 2021
- Community Engagement, Tobacco Use
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Ferry Good Health Project
Summary: This project uses a community-led approach to help to reduce chronic illness among African American/Black residents in five underserved ZIP codes in Buffalo, New York.
- November 10, 2021
- Community Engagement, HIV and STIs
STOP STDs: Support, Technical Assistance, and Opportunities for Program, Policy, and Communications to Prevent STDs
CAI is engaging community members in several jurisdictions throughout the country to help identify and address the disproportional rates of sexually transmitted infections among communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and people who live in under-resourced areas.
- October 31, 2021
- Community Engagement, Tobacco Use
Tobacco-Free Erie and Niagara Counties
Summary: This project aims to advance tobacco-free communities in Erie and Niagara Counties through education, community mobilization, and policy change in order to reduce the burden of tobacco use and prevent future initiation.