Our Services

Focus on a particular topic to provide community outreach and promotion to meet your goals :

• Conduct a needs assessment
• Facilitate focus groups
• Identify and understand your issue 
• Analyze your data
• Design your goal
• Create a list of stakeholders
• Develop a strategy
• Build a Coalition and start engaging with key decision-makers
• Craft and refine your message
• Tailor it across channels
• Measure your impact

Case example: Suzanne has utilized her Masters in Public Health to design strategies for building three multi-County Community Health Assessments- learning from the community to develop a strategy for impacting long term change.  She worked on numerous marketing strategies related to Covid education outreach. 

Move your program idea through to implementation:

• Help evaluate your needs
• Provide data analysis and visualization to drive data driven decision making
• Facilitate groups to move ideas into action
• Support creation of systems and processes that will become your  programs design

Case example: Suzanne led the Covid response team responsible for providing direct isolation support to the Columbia Gorge region.  She worked with public health partners, community-based organizations, tribal agencies and others to effectively lead this timely program response. 

• Lead your group through well structured and facilitated , effective meetings
• Facilitate problem solving and creativity
• Create Team Building facilitation and activities 
• Training Development- work with your staff to develop the agenda, curriculum, facilitator's guide, and evaluation, as well as support them to be an active part of the facilitation process when requested.  

Case example: Suzanne led the Community Advisory Council (CAC) of the Gorge CCO for 6 years, guiding 3 iterations of the Community Health Improvement Plan.  The culture she supported at the CAC was written about in a number of publications including most recently here. 

Project Management from planning to completion:

• Create actionable project plan
• Develop and foster collaboration and partnerships
• Design and manage budgets
• Provide guidance and clear communication through challenges with flexibility and creativity
• Meet your projects goals
• Create processes for sustainability practices and ongoing improvement work

Case example: Suzanne was the responsible for leading the program design and implementation of this large cross-sector collaborative program with a $1.5 million dollar annual budget that grew from 2 staff and 2 organizations  to over 20 staff from 10 organizations since 2016.

• Help with defining your project
• Research applicable funders
• Gather input from stakeholders or involved staff
• Develop your budget
• Develop your narrative
• Grant submission for you or support for your submission
• Create systems and guidance for post award grant reporting

Successful grants written: Suzanne has successfully written grants and managed HRSA grants and has also successfully written and managed grants to foundations, the state of Oregon, health plans and hospitals.