Collaborations

Community Based Collaborations

• Mid-South Health Systems/Counseling Services of Eastern Arkansas

  • Program Evaluation of ACTION for Kids project, a system of care funded by SAMHSA [2005-2011]

• Better Life Counseling Center

  • Program Evaluation for the Building Healthy Marriages project, a capacity-building grant [2007-2008]

• Fitness Bootcamp Unlimited

  • Grant writing for the Fitness Bootcamp Unlimited Energy Program for Families project [2008]

• Jonesboro Parks and Recreation

  • Developed, collated, analyzed, and reported on the Community Input Survey [2002]

  • Consulted on future survey of City residents [2008]

• Craighead County Juvenile Department

  • Worked with representatives from the department in a variety of manners (e.g., to help determine cost savings of ACTION for Kids as related to juvenile justice costs [ongoing], the help develop an evaluation plan for the Craighead County Juvenile Detention Center therapist [August 2008])

• City of Jonesboro, Community Development Research Department

  • Provided research services [2007]

School Based Collaborations

• Jonesboro, Nettleton, Valley View, Westside

  • Assisted in grant writing and performed Program Evaluation for the Safe Schools Healthy Students Grant [2000-2003]

  • Provided Program Evaluation for the Craighead County School Based Mental Health Project [2006-2007]

• Westside School District

  • Assisted in grant writing and performed Program Evaluation for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant [2002-2004]

• Jonesboro Public Schools           

  • Provided assistance with data collations, analysis, and reporting of the School Based Mental Health Program [2007]

• Arkansas State University

  • Providing external evaluation on No Child Left Behind Grants:

    • Get A Clue with Jannie Trautwein [2007-2008]

    • Together We Teach with Natalie Johnson-Leslie [2008-2009]

• Cross County Schools

  • Data Analysis and Reporting services for the Positive Action program.

Faith-Based Collaborations

• Deliverance Family Worship Center

  • Grant writing and program evaluation of the JAMMIN program, an afterschool tutoring and mentoring program [2006-2007]
  • Grant writing and program evaluation of the HOPE project, a capacity building project [2006-2007]

  • Assisted in various other grant writing projects [ongoing]

• CityYouth Ministries

  • Grant writing and program evaluation of CityYouth's Fitness Bootcamp Unlimited Energy Program, funded by the Arkansas Blue & You Foundation [project beginning January, 2009]

• Phillips County Ministerial Alliance

  • Assisted in several grant writing projects (e.g., Community Abstinence Program and Juvenile Diversion Program) [ongoing]