The Hep B United Peer Partnership program fosters relationships among community-based hepatitis B coalitions, improves skills, and enhances the sharing of best practices across the coalition. It accomplishes this by pairing two HBU partner organizations with differing needs and skill sets to help one another achieve specific projects. Partners are connected based on their specific needs and expertise. In some cases, one partner takes on more of a mentor role and the other of mentee. In other cases, both partners will have equally shared roles as mentor or mentee for each other, to reach specific outcomes. In all cases, there is sharing of best practices both ways.
Each partner will identify a specific objective for the partnership, something they need help with, something that they would like to learn, and something they will help their partner with. Specific learning or task objectives can include: building capacity to conduct community screenings, developing local relationships, managing their local coalition, analyzing data, using social media, etc.
Peer Partnerships generally last nine months and consist of regular check-ins among partners and HBU staff, review of objectives/documents, and a site visit to each other’s organization. HBU provides a modest stipend as part of this capacity-building program.
All peer partners gain something from this enhanced relationship and experience, and all HBU partners are encouraged to apply. Applications for the 2024 Peer Partnership cohort are now being accepted on a rolling basis.