Learning Groups

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Learning Groups can be used by many different kinds of organizations and agencies to implement a variety of quality improvement changes. Learning Groups bring together multi-disciplinary leadership teams from several clinics/agencies on a regular basis over a period of time to work on a similar topic. This iterative change process grew out of the capacity building work with community-based organizations and health care agencies that we have been doing since 1977. Learning Groups are a highly-effective means to accomplish the systems-level change needed to implement new programs or make major organizational changes.

• Learning Groups (PDF 279KB) - This white paper describes the rationale and theoretical frameworks underlying the Learning Group approach.
• Integrating HIV into Family Planning Services (PDF 1.75MB) - This training manual provides agendas, and complete training designs, including learning activities and handouts, for a six-session series. Use them as-is to help agencies integrate HIV prevention services into routine family planning care, or adapt them to any topic that requires systems-wide change.