title: "Because We All Trust and Care about Each Other": Exploring Tensions Translating a Theater-based HIV Prevention Intervention into a New Context.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A theater-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention developed in urban California was piloted with a new partnership in North Carolina.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This work describes the experience of translating a complex program with an enhanced partnership approach, barriers and facilitators of implementation in the new setting, and the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary, collaborative interventions.
  
  
  METHODS
  We gathered perspectives of local stakeholders involved in program implementation through process evaluation interviews and focus groups with undergraduates, a college instructor, school district administrators, and high school teachers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Implementing the intervention in a new setting proved feasible and successful; however, misunderstandings arose among stakeholder groups regarding teaching priorities, philosophies, and values, and were a limiting factor in partnership functioning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implementing a cross-disciplinary intervention in a new setting is best achieved through a local community-engaged process, with active involvement of relevant stakeholders. We suggest strategies to strengthen community partnerships cooperating in implementation of complex, context-tailored interventions.
authors.forename: Mary Sherwyn
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mouw
authors.forename: Arianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taboada
authors.forename: Scarlett
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Steinert
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willis
authors.forename: Alexandra F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Lightfoot
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002140:California; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004324:Drama; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009657:North Carolina; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D035502:Trust; D055815:Young Adult