We offer consulting, webinars and intimate trainings to help organizations more clearly define measurable and targeted community problems, actual programmatic interventions, expected outcomes and desired impacts.
Our Trainings
Our contracts such as those with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) based in Washington, DC allow us to share the consulting strategies discussed in our logic model guidebook at no cost to nonprofits across the country during this pandemic. However, the trainings we do via NCRC reach full capacity very quickly due to the high need for organizations to add a racial equity lens focus to their service to black and brown communities. With this in mind, we are available to conduct webinars and trainings especially for your organization. Continue reading for a list of webinars and trainings. Call (248) 579-9423 or email qbrown@humanisticcare.com with questions.
Our Webinars
- All webinars are approximately 60 minutes with an additional 30 minutes added for Q&A = 90 minutes
- Webinars come with the option to customize the content to focus on any of the following social determinants of racial wealth inequities: Economic Stability, Education; Neighborhood & Physical Environment; Food Security & Nutrition; Community & Social Context; and/or Healthcare
Webinar 1: Defining Targeted Problems Within A Community: Needs Assessment Development (90 minutes)
During this webinar Quisha demonstrates strategies to help organizations create need assessments that effectively get to the root underlying issues to target and measure within a community. The number one reason organizations do not feel confident in their ability to demonstrate outcomes is a failure to define targeted community problems to be measurable early on in their efforts within a community. The following topics are covered in this webinar:
- Developing data-rich quantitative and qualitative needs assessment questions which will yield the most useful and impactful data
- Using assumptions and valuable information that you know you want to gain to help guide the development of the needs assessment
- Using needs assessment data results to support the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Success Factors (KSF)
Webinar 2: Data Collection, Assessment & Reporting Methods (90 minutes)
During this webinar, Quisha demonstrates strategies to effectively monitor and measure progress on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In this webinar we take a deeper dive into ongoing progress monitoring and data collection to measure change over time in the people served. The following are discussed in this webinar
- How to develop I-SMART organizational goals and track progress on these goals while tying these to your KPIs and Key Success Factors (KSF)
- How to simplify tracking progress on KPIs
- Methods to use for ongoing progress monitoring of change over time
Webinar 3: Developing A Progressive Outcomes Scale (POS) Logic Model (90 minutes)
During this webinar, Quisha discusses the importance of having a straightforward process in place to measure how people are becoming better off due to an organizations services and most importantly describe how they are moving from the short, intermediate, and long-term outcomes. This webinar describes a method that organizations can use which allows them to track outcomes on all indicators in a simplified, efficient, and effective manner while demonstrating clear outcomes…leading to real visible impact in the lives of people and the community. This webinar is designed to help move organizations away from the dry old nebulous form of social programs logic modeling. Organizations are shown how to use a “Progressive Outcomes Scale (POS) Logic Model Format which was developed in response to the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic.
Our Intimate Trainings
*Participants of the training receive 1 complimentary e-Copy of the practical guidebook "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" (retail $9.99) by Quisha Brown
*Trainings are full-day/5-hours each and include two 10-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch
*Trainings come with the option to customize the content to focus on any of the following social determinants of racial wealth inequities: Economic Stability, Education; Neighborhood & Physical Environment; Food Security & Nutrition; Community & Social Context; and/or Healthcare
TRAINING 1 - Defining Measurable Community Problems to Target (full day = 5 hours)
Participants will be apply hands on learning through breakout groups using the "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" practical guidebook to implement the necessary action steps in developing, conducting and analyzing results from a community needs assessment. During the development of the needs assessment, participants will use a racial equity lens to identify and acknowledge the systemic and/or cultural economic challenges that will have a strong influence on how the questions in the needs assessment are framed. The training will use either a pre-developed case study focused on impacting racial disparities or it may use a specific organizational model selected in advance by participants. During this training session, participants will perform key action steps which include how to:
TRAINING 2 - How to Create a Logic Model & Theory of Change for Measurable Impact (full day = 5 hours)
Participants will be apply hands on learning using the "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" practical guidebook to create a logic model and theory of change which bring together lessons from Training 1. Participants will learn about a unique strategy used to show progress on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) within the logic model. The training will use pre-developed KPIs or KPIs which have been pre-determined (and may be refined during the training) by participants. During this training session, participants will perform key action steps which will include how to:
*Trainings are full-day/5-hours each and include two 10-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch
*Trainings come with the option to customize the content to focus on any of the following social determinants of racial wealth inequities: Economic Stability, Education; Neighborhood & Physical Environment; Food Security & Nutrition; Community & Social Context; and/or Healthcare
TRAINING 1 - Defining Measurable Community Problems to Target (full day = 5 hours)
Participants will be apply hands on learning through breakout groups using the "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" practical guidebook to implement the necessary action steps in developing, conducting and analyzing results from a community needs assessment. During the development of the needs assessment, participants will use a racial equity lens to identify and acknowledge the systemic and/or cultural economic challenges that will have a strong influence on how the questions in the needs assessment are framed. The training will use either a pre-developed case study focused on impacting racial disparities or it may use a specific organizational model selected in advance by participants. During this training session, participants will perform key action steps which include how to:
- Connect the vision of the organization to the overarching focus of questions being asked on the needs assessment (i.e. focus on understanding more about what the community needs are in order to bring the vision to fruition)
- Develop high impact, measurable quantitative and qualitative needs assessment questions which are focused on real-time underlying issues in a community
- Develop a better understanding of the important role that assumptions and planning ahead play in the development of data-rich need assessments
TRAINING 2 - How to Create a Logic Model & Theory of Change for Measurable Impact (full day = 5 hours)
Participants will be apply hands on learning using the "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" practical guidebook to create a logic model and theory of change which bring together lessons from Training 1. Participants will learn about a unique strategy used to show progress on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) within the logic model. The training will use pre-developed KPIs or KPIs which have been pre-determined (and may be refined during the training) by participants. During this training session, participants will perform key action steps which will include how to:
- Develop I-SMART organizational goals which are focused on people
- Determine the Key Success Factors (KSF) necessary to achieve the goals of an organization
- Ensure KPIs are measurable and develop a reliable data collection strategy which will allow the organization to monitor change over-time as well as determine appropriate intervals for collecting data and reporting on outcomes
- Develop a Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model using logic and theory
Publications
Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change: A Step by Step Guide to Help Nonprofits Become More Confident in Their Ability to Demonstrate Outcomes
This book serves as a practical guide to help nonprofit leaders understand how to develop a logic model and theory of change “using a racial equity lens.” The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority groups, with high rates of death in African Americans. As a result, COVID-19 has increased the accountability of nonprofits to do a better job at demonstrating their outcomes. Grassroot nonprofits have struggled for years to appropriately use logic models to define measurable targeted problems, programmatic interventions, expected outcomes and desired impacts. Logic Models and Theory of Change have always been two common methodologies used to create programs and measure impact, but somehow down through the years the true purpose of these have gotten lost and became convoluted.
This book serves as a practical guide to help nonprofit leaders understand how to develop a logic model and theory of change “using a racial equity lens.” The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority groups, with high rates of death in African Americans. As a result, COVID-19 has increased the accountability of nonprofits to do a better job at demonstrating their outcomes. Grassroot nonprofits have struggled for years to appropriately use logic models to define measurable targeted problems, programmatic interventions, expected outcomes and desired impacts. Logic Models and Theory of Change have always been two common methodologies used to create programs and measure impact, but somehow down through the years the true purpose of these have gotten lost and became convoluted.
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Five Steps to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline
This workbook curriculum is used by organizations to help youth to understand traps of the school to prison pipeline so they can avoid it. You can learn more details at www.YouthWorkBook.com. Thousands of organizations across the country have used this workbook with great success in changing poverty mindsets of youth. If you would like to become a reseller of the workbook or purchase the workbook for your own use with youth, click the appropriate link below.
This workbook curriculum is used by organizations to help youth to understand traps of the school to prison pipeline so they can avoid it. You can learn more details at www.YouthWorkBook.com. Thousands of organizations across the country have used this workbook with great success in changing poverty mindsets of youth. If you would like to become a reseller of the workbook or purchase the workbook for your own use with youth, click the appropriate link below.
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In over 40 years of working with Youth, I have never used a resource that captures the interests and imagination of every person in the group. Practical, thought provoking, and real! ~ Bishop Tony Russell and Pastor Valerie Russell, MAN Network
Every school with high-risk populations should consider implementing this curriculum. ~ Sylvia Santana, Michigan State Senator, District 3, Member of the Governor's Jail & Pre-Trial Incarceration Task Force
The Five Steps to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline is both innovative and relatable to youth and their families. ~ Jared Davis, Principal, Cornerstone Health & Technology High School