Community Advisory Board

The WINGS Board of Directors and staff have strived for years to increasingly meet the international standards of rights-based care for our patients and program participants. We have taken concrete measures to ensure quality of care and accessibility of our services for our target population. We have implemented policies and protocols that establish and protect the basic rights of our patients, and invested heavily in training staff on rights-based counseling. In 2021, we took another step towards implementing the tenets of rights-based care: community participation in program design and monitoring. To better meet this standard, we launched a Community Advisory Board in January 2021 based in Antigua Guatemala. This group included 9 representatives from Sacatepéquez, Chimaltenango and Escuintla – two Youth Leader graduates, three community partners, two patients, one Youth Leader parent, and one Volunteer Promoter, ranging in ages from 19 to 55.

The CAB met seven times in 2021, contributing feedback and community needs information that guided WINGS’ 2022 work plans.