CONSULTING
OVERVIEW
CONSULTING
The
Academy for Professional Excellence provides a full spectrum of organizational
development consultation services through the Network
for Excellence in Human Services (NEHS) The Network for Excellence
in Human Services provides consultation, training, and technical assistance
to address challenges faced by health and human service agencies and community-based
social service agencies.
NEHS assists agencies and organizations in the following areas:
Needs Assessments
Need help identifying barriers to optimum organizational performance?
We have experienced staff that can come in to observe and assess your
organizational needs, provide concrete recommendations, and provide the
training, meeting, facilitation, or consultation needed to get you and
your staff back on track.
Research
The Academy for Professional Excellence has the capacity to provide assistance
with your organization’s research needs. We have expertise in a
wide range of human service topics, particularly in the realm of public
child welfare.
Below is a menu of reports from previous research services rendered:
- Children of Color in Foster Care: What Does Disproportionality Look Like in the Five Southern Counties?
- Children’s Sourcebook: Child Health and Well-Being Indicators in the Southern California Region
- Factors Contributing to IHSS Caseload Growth: Perspectives from SACHS Counties
- In-Home Supportive Services: Characteristics, Cost Drivers, and Cost Containment Strategies
- Innovative Approaches to Managing with Less
- Innovations in Performance Based Contracting
- Seeking Better Performance Through Interagency Collaboration: Prospects and Challenges
- Staffing in Child Welfare Services in the New Millennium
- Welfare Leavers: What Happens After?"
- Workforce analyses for various human service agencies
Program Evaluation
In today’s world, organizations have to be able to demonstrate the
effectiveness of their services and interventions. The Academy for Professional
Excellence can help you design and implement evaluations of new or existing
programs that allow you to demonstrate achievement of outcomes and showcase
your accomplishments.
Other Organizational Development Services
Various specialized projects can be negotiated based on your needs. We
have experience with a variety of areas including workforce assessments,
recruitment and retention studies, succession planning, and change management.
Let us create a specialized approach to address your organizational development
needs!
STAR INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING
STAR (Successful
Transitions for Adult Readiness) Training is a set of
two comprehensive, competency-based, interdisciplinary curricula designed
for those who work with adolescent foster youth.
- STAR for Service Providers curricula
focuses on topics such as: raising and protecting youth, the youth development
philosophy, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural competence, developmental
tasks of adolescents, assessment & evaluation and much more.
- STAR for Managers and Supervisors
curricula focuses on the youth development philosophy and the
paradigm shift this entails for staff, community realities and collaboration,
community strategic planning and how to work with staff to make a positive
change for foster youth.
- The STAR Training package (curricula,
presentation materials and resources) can be
downloaded free of charge. STAR Information and downloads.
Contact Our Consulting Staff
To discuss your needs in any of the above consulting areas and explore
the services we have to offer your organization, contact:
Jennifer Tucker-Tatlow
Associate Program Director
619-594-3917
jttatlow@projects.sdsu.edu