Hands-on support for tribal nations, programs and organizations

Sustained support for grant recipients from award through close-out: work planning, budget and drawdown, performance data, site-visit preparation, corrective action, and coordination with the federal project officer. We have carried this load for behavioral health and community awards including SAMHSA Native Connections and Circles of Care, and we know the reporting calendar those programs run on.

For a team that has just inherited an award and has no runway, we turn the scope of work into a staffing plan, a calendar, a set of tools and a first-year work plan the program can actually execute.

Preparation before a site review, and a straight answer after one. We assemble the documentation, rehearse the questions, and where findings already exist we write and work the corrective action plan until it closes.

Assessment and modeling of tribal land, with site and industry analysis to show what a parcel can realistically carry. The work is meant to give leadership a defensible basis for a decision rather than a study that sits on a shelf, and it pairs with the community engagement facilitation described under Governance, planning and community engagement.

Planning support for Nations weighing an economic development move: what the market will bear, what the site requires, what capacity has to exist internally first, and the sequence that gets from intent to a funded project. Written so a council can act on it.

Gatekeeper and awareness training for staff, leadership and community members, including Mental Health First Aid, QPR and Talk Saves Lives. Delivered in person or virtually, and sized for the group in front of us rather than a fixed roster.

A three-day, trauma-informed training for staff who carry community loss as part of the job. It is built around the way grief moves through a tribal community, and it gives the people in the room somewhere to put their own.

A three-day workshop in which participants write, record and edit a short first-person video. Communities use the results for prevention messaging, for evaluation, and to put a program’s outcomes in the voice of the people who lived them.

Workshops, institutes, peer learning and job-embedded coaching for program managers, grant coordinators, finance staff, health and safety teams, outreach workers and boards, plus recorded modules when a program has to onboard someone mid-year.

A multi-day community gathering built on belonging, mastery, interdependence and generosity. It is used for healing, for prevention planning, and for bringing elders, youth and program staff into one conversation. We facilitate the gathering and help the community carry what comes out of it into a plan that outlasts the week.

Support to develop the tribally driven plan that coordinates alcohol and substance abuse resources across programs, beginning with asset and resource mapping so the nation can see what it already has before deciding what it still needs.

A data-informed plan with measurable objectives, named owners and real timelines, written so a funder will accept it and staff will still be using it in month nine.

Training for federal, state, county and other non-tribal partners on working with tribal nations: sovereignty as an operating condition, consultation done properly, and a strengths-based starting point rather than a deficit one.

Work sessions for councils, boards and leadership teams, including stakeholder engagement and the land and infrastructure planning conversations that have to happen before a scope of work is realistic.

A structured assessment, developed by the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University, that measures how ready a community actually is to act on an issue. It produces a stage and a baseline, so strategies can be matched to where the community is rather than where the grant assumed it would be, and so progress can be measured again later against the same scale.

Assessment design, instrument development, and a performance measure set the program can collect without a full-time analyst.

Evaluation that answers the question leadership is actually asking, plus the narrative and data packages the funding agency expects, in the format it expects them.

Support for tribal health, safety and injury prevention programs from implementation through reporting, including the coordination between clinical, community and administrative staff that these programs live or die on.

Help keeping an evidence-based model faithful to its design and to the community it serves at the same time, and documenting the adaptations honestly when the two pull apart.

Coaching for the finance, data and administrative functions that carry a federal award: internal controls, allowability, procurement, and the records that make a drawdown defensible.

Documentation, single-audit readiness, and the written handoffs that usually break when one coordinator leaves. The test we use is whether the next person hired can pick the work up from what is on paper.

Day-to-day technical support for program teams that have no IT department of their own: accounts and access, devices, shared storage, and the small recurring failures that quietly cost a program hours every week. We work to whatever standard the funding agency requires.

Getting program data out of disconnected spreadsheets and into something a director can read. We set up collection that frontline staff will actually keep up with, then build the analysis and the recurring reports the funder expects, so reporting season stops being a scramble.

Public sites and internal tools built to be maintained by the people who inherit them, not only by the people who built them. That includes accessibility, plain-language content structure, and a handover that leaves the program able to make its own updates.

Documentation that holds up when staff turn over: procedures, data dictionaries, user guides, and the technical writing a program needs for its own records and for its reporting obligations.