Bridging Implementation Science with Cultural Integrity
I partner with community-based organizations to capture and codify their work, translating lived expertise into clear, replicable frameworks. Through thoughtful documentation and evaluation planning, I help ensure that programs born in community wisdom are sustainable, measurable, and positioned to reach and benefit many more people.
In doing so, I also act as a liaison between community-based organizations and systems/larger institutions who bring experience in evidence-based programing, evaluation requirements, and fidelity. Together, we work to build services that are rigorous, relevant, and rooted in community.
Rigorous. Relevant. Rooted.
I bring fluency in implementation science, purveyor standards, and evaluation requirements while elevating cultural integrity and community voice. Because I understand the multiple roles within complex systems, I help agencies install programs that are rigorous, relevant, fundable, and sustainable.
Implementation rarely fails because people lack commitment.
It fails when systems lack translation and alignment.
The Problem
Community based organizations are often asked to:
- Implement evidence-based practices quickly while partnering with public or academic entities with competing priorities
- Meet rigorous fidelity standards while ensuring cultural responsiveness to your communities
- “Prove” community defined-evidence programs work with too little resources
Too often, these pressures compete with one another. Programs then become…
- Technically compliant but culturally disconnected
- Culturally strong but structurally unsupported
- Evaluated but not meaningful
- Funded but unsustainable
I am an implementation broker for community-based organizations.
Communities create powerful, responsive programs that meet the needs of their neighbors, families, and cultural groups in ways that outside systems often cannot. These initiatives are built on trust, lived experience, and deep local knowledge.
Too often, however, these programs live only in practice. They are not documented or manualized, making them difficult to replicate, sustain, or scale. When staff turnover occurs, critical knowledge can be lost. Without clear documentation, it also becomes challenging to evaluate and demonstrate the profound impact these community-rooted programs have.
I partner with community-based organizations to capture and codify their work, translating lived expertise into clear, replicable frameworks. Through thoughtful documentation and evaluation planning, I help ensure that programs born in community wisdom are sustainable, measurable, and positioned to reach and benefit many more people.
A bridge between fidelity and cultural adaptation of EBPs.
- Facilitate the understanding of core components in an EBP and what is adaptable.
- Communication broker between purveyors and providers.
- Consult on community driven cultural adaptation processes.
A bridge between community-defined evidence practices and implementation infrastructure
- Assist in CDEP manualization
- Build infrastructure for replication
- Faciltate evaluation building
A bridge between on-ground application and building evidence.
- Balance the survey burden between staff, community, and evaluation goals
- Translating academic findings into concrete usable tools
- Consulting on data collection, analysis, and use with community
I work with
- Community Based Organizations
- Program purveyors
- Independent evaluators
- Small Nonprofits
- Operating budget of less than $1M or,
- Early-stage nonprofits under 5 staff members or,
- Founder-led nonprofits under 5 years old.
Let’s Build Structure That Lasts
Implementation towards trauma-informed, evidence based, and culturally specific change requires both rigor and community.
If you are launching a program, adapting an EBP, strengthening evaluation alignment, or building sustainability into community-defined work, let’s talk.
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