Priority Area
Public Health & Health Equity Projects
Project: Baltimore New American Access Coalition
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Client: Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
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Description: Oversaw implementation of program and pertinent infrastructure, including the development of grant agreements, capacity building and evaluation framework for a coalition of providers tasked with accessing and connecting the city's immigrant and refugee families with benefits (food, housing, health, utilities, etc) via case management to facilitate their integration and financial stability.
Project: Montgomery County, MD Office of Food Systems Resilience - Grant Deployment & Program Service Supports
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Client: Montgomery County Office of Food System Resilience (OFSR)
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Description: Contracted to support the County’s new Office of Food System Resilience with grantmaking and impact analysis. Supported team with the development of a notice of funding opportunity for their largest grant deployment effort. Analyzed and summarized the Office’s data across programs and initiatives including school-based, food as medicine, community gardening, SNAP outreach, and food infrastructure and system development. County food investments also sought to ensure grantees sourced food from local and minority owned food businesses. Analyses were prepared to inform legislators, decisionmakers, partners, and the community at large of OFSR’s impact and ongoing efforts to ensure sufficient investments are made to address hunger among a culturally and economically diverse population and the resilience of the County’s food system in the face of climate change.
Project: National Women’s Law Center’s Participatory Grantmaking and Community Impact Fund Evaluation and Technical Assistance
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Description: A national nonprofit entity responsible for securing key legal protections and supports for women in the United States over the last half century. Contracted to provide technical assistance and evaluate the organization’s participatory grantmaking making process related to their Community Impact Fund Initiative focused on building partnerships between national and local level community-based organizations focused on strengthening childcare sector policies that impact the financial security of Black and Brown female workers and parents.
Project: Need and Impact Assessment of Benefit Access Programming for Youth with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood
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Client: The Arc Prince George’s County
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Description: TA 70+ year-old nonprofit tasked with advancing the well-being of individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families. Provide research and evaluation services to engage with students with developmental and intellectual disabilities and families, through the Families Involved in Transition intervention, to understand their needs, access, and experiences securing federal benefits to support their well-being as they transition into adulthood. Services include interviews and focus groups with parents/caregivers, quantitative survey analysis and design, evaluation and learning framework development and planning, and presentation of research findings for advocacy of needed investments.
Project: Prevention Community Needs Assessment and Evaluation
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Client: ​Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
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Description: Designing and implementing a preventive community intervention process and outcome evaluation for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)- and Maryland Department Health Office of Population Health Improvement-funded youth substance use prevention grants that focus on substances including alcohol and prescription opioids. Services include designing and conducting a needs assessment to assess the local landscape and identify local to national trends related to adolescent substance use and mental health; evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of substance use interventions, policies, and prevention resources that include stigma-free social media campaigns, educational programming, advocacy training, and safe disposal events to change attitudes, access, and behaviors; engaging with the Montgomery County Prevention Alliance of providers, community members, and County leaders; reporting key findings and considerations to refine prevention strategies; and presenting findings to County prevention groups.
Project: Program Evaluation & Consultation for Black Sage Collective Underground Railroad Community Project
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Client: ​Black Sage Collective
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Description: Developing and implementing a mixed-method evaluation of the Underground Railroad Community Project (URCP), funded by the U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services. URCP is a multi-year initiative designed to effectively serve and support Black children, adults, and families in Detroit, MI, experiencing domestic and sexual violence and risk of child welfare system contact and to reduce health and system disparities by building the capacity of a consortium of culturally specific community-based organizations and partners with lived expertise to provide evidence-based culturally responsive, trauma-informed, healing-centered, and equity focused interventions and advocacy strategies and educate Black families and communities about their rights and strategies to promote safety and accountability. Arcstratta’s support includes designing a logic model and evaluation plan; collecting and analyzing data on program activities and processes; preparing reports of findings, progress, lessons learned, and recommendations; and assisting Black Sage Collective with infrastructure development including preparation of equity plans and organizational documents.