Any agency planning to use the social networks strategy should be able to:

• Define broad goals of the program (e.g., provide HIV CTR to women of color who are at risk for HIV but are not receiving CTR through other strategies)
• Define the target population that the program is trying to reach with CTR (e.g., African American men who have sex with men, ages 18-30, in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, who have not been tested previously and are not being reached through other CTR strategies)
• Determine significant cultural or social characteristics of the target population
• Develop procedures for planning and initiating the program
• Develop procedures that will be used to enlist recruiters, recruit network associates, provide HIV CTR to network associates, and link network associates to services
• Develop procedures for record keeping and documentation
• Develop procedures for quality assurance
• Develop procedures for obtaining necessary local approvals (e.g., local Health Department regulations)
• Procedures for monitoring and evaluation

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