Projects

Past Projects

Quality Improvement Relationships

Facilitated a multi-division team to establish agency Key Performance Indicators at the contract and program levels.
Developed and implemented methods to measure and track Behavioral Health Key Performance Indicators.
Facilitated and led strategic initiatives workgroups for Data Driven Decision Making and Clinical Care Outcomes
Established and sustained internal quality improvement and evaluation program—inclusive of hiring, supervising, training and mentoring staff, development of evaluation goals, objectives, and data collection mechanisms.
Sustained internal quality improvement and evaluation program—inclusive of hiring, supervising, training and mentoring staff, development of evaluation goals, objectives, and data collection mechanisms.
Designed new data collection and MIS procedures to improve efficiency and accuracy of key performance indicator data for over 40 grantee programs.
Administered a county-wide management information system (HMIS) for program monitoring, tracking and data quality control for HUD and Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs.
Oversight to staff utilizing HMIS to ensure accurate and timely data collection and entry.
Partnering with CEOs and organization leaders in the setting and achieving of strategic and organizational goals.
Management of collaborative data quality control systems—ensure consistency and efficiency of data collection for key performance indicators of grantee agency contracts.

Research and Evaluation

Establishment of agency evaluation and research departments from ground up.
Develop and implement agency evaluation logic models, creating a sustainable and consistent infrastructure for agency outcomes and process evaluation.
Facilitate and lead strategic initiatives workgroups for data driven decision making and clinical care outcomes.
Technical assistance to sustain and improve data systems and analysis ongoing.
Developed processes for data collection, storage and analysis to support effective evaluation.
Conduct advanced statistical data analysis of the outcome data and building of Machine Learning models for clinical outcomes.
Implement and evaluate best-practice treatment models targeting mental health, transitional age youth, substance abuse, housing, and employment.
Develop evaluation models to ensure positive clinical outcomes for women, family-focused outpatient and residential drug treatment.
Evaluation of a truancy prevention program for middle-school at-risk youth for a county probation department
Evaluation of academic outcomes for a school district’s housing student support program.
Evaluation of California FIRST 5 programs for two counties.

Business Intelligence and Data Systems

Extensive development of Power BI dashboards and visualizations using DAX, M and SQL based on your agency’s current data systems.
Crystal Reports custom development for both outcome and process analysis for legacy systems.
Analysis and modeling of client and program outcome data using SPSS, Python, R, STATA, and Excel.
Development and testing of Machine Learning models utilizing STATA, Python and R.
Development of data systems customized to work with existing EMR or other agency data.
Development of a local MIS system for a women’s substance abuse prevention program.
Create agency data driven culture through partnering with leadership, training from staff level to CEO, to ensure the acceptance of data as a key component of clinical decision-making.
Created and implemented analysis process for clinical assessment tools in several agencies:
Client Satisfaction Survey development
ASQ-3 and ASQ-SE
KIPS (Keys to Interactive Parenting)
CBCL
CANS
DLA-20
MORS (Milestones of Recovery)
PSC-35
The “Matrix Model” for evaluation of outpatient substance abuse treatment applied to Latin people.
Partnered with creators of Family Development Matrix™ for differential response case management evaluation and monitoring.

Clinical Program Development and Grants

Our team has excelled in the development of funding and program development for many areas of clinical care and community development:

Secured $400K of new revenue to support housing programs.
Secured $300K of new agency funding in youth gang prevention and residential substance abuse programs for monolingual Spanish-speaking men.
Secured $200K of new funding for a tri-county substance abuse treatment program.
Collaborative grant writing resulting in $5 million of revenue to county Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health department for Healthy Start/Babies First and Black Infant Health programs.
Partnered with clinical services providers to integrate assessment and outcome evaluation processes into outpatient child and adolescent mental health services.
Consultation and training of clinical services providers in the interpretation and application of outcome and assessment data to clinical practice.