We provide a variety evaluation activities with specialities in needs assessments, program improvement, process, justification, and impact evaluations. Accurate identification of the questions you want to answer with evaluation is crucial. Our ability to accurately identify the goal of your evaluation, allows for innovative individualized evaluation plans and execution.

We also engage in a variety of research projects to help strengthen evaluation such as but not limited to landscape scans and case study story telling.

In all of our evaluation and research we utilize trauma and resiliency informed principles , participatory methodology , culturally responsive and racially equitable strategies.

Strong effective programming begins with a strong strategic framework, planning, and theory of change. Understanding the need of your program and other contextual factors that impact programming efforts is vital to sustainability.

Programs should have embedded evaluation components to improve efficiency and effectiveness of outcomes and implementation.

Strategic planning is the blueprint for organizational goals where action planning is the step by step process. We like to use strategic action planning pairing strategy with action for organizational accountability.

Action planning clearly outlines necessary steps, tasks, and timeline to reach goals. At IOD we believe that traditional strategic plans are a way of the past.

When you put these together you have an easy to follow step by step plan outlining your organizations goals and the actions needed to meet them.

IOD therapeutic approach to consulting believes in iterative process that or collaboratively and participatory. We have expertise in bringing people together to work toward a common goal and turn both big ideas and problems to understandable concise actionable items. Group facilitation when effectively done can promote action development and plans to follow-up.

We also provide a various individualized training surrounding trauma and resiliency, burnout, self-care, mental and behavioral health, etc. Contact us to discuss your needs to create an individuals training for you!

IOD offers array of different consulting services including several that are not listed. Sometimes the biggest challenge is determining what you want and or what you need from a consultant. Lets talk about how we could partner to help better serve your organizational needs.