Services for Organizations
I offer a wide array of services to both individuals and organizations, and genuinely believe that no project is too small. I also accept both long- and short-term work. Following is a list of my services with descriptions of previous work and/or training in each of the areas.
Grant Writing
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Youth Villages – Proposal to redesign in-house evaluation process
- YMCA of Tampa Professional Services
- U.S. Department of Labor – Proposal to fund services for youth aging out of foster care in Hillsborough County
- Our Kids of Miami-Dade and Monroe, Inc.
- U.S. Department of Labor – Proposal to fund services for adjudicated and at-risk Latino youth in the Metro Miami area
- Human Services Coalition of Dade County, Inc.
- City of Miami Police Department Law Enforcement Trust Fund
- Dr. Scholl Foundation
- Nat Moore Foundation
- National Book Scholarship Fund
Program Development/Design
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Second Family Foundation – Model program of enhanced services for foster youth in Orange County
- Advanced doctoral course work in development of social intervention models
Program Evaluation (Process & Outcome)
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Second Family Foundation – Designed and executed process and outcome evaluations of a model program to support a small group of youth between the ages of 13-15 who are placed in foster care under the auspices of child welfare services in Orange County
- The Thurston Group, Inc.
- Managed the evaluations of 22 youth crime prevention programs in Miami, FL
- CHARLEE of Dade County, Inc.
- Developed and managed the evaluation of a model program of foster care services for over 100 dependent children in Miami-Dade County
Report Writing
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Second Family Foundation - Authored program report
- The Thurston Group, Inc.
- Co-authored 10 evaluation reports
- CHARLEE of Dade County, Inc.
- Authored two evaluation reports
Research Design
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Advanced doctoral course work in experimental, quasi-experimental, & non-experimental research design
- Completion of doctoral dissertation that used a nonequivalent groups quasi-experimental design applied to secondary data
Quantitative & Qualitative Data Analysis
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Completion of doctoral dissertation that used structural equation modeling
- Advanced doctoral course work in structural equation modeling, survival analysis, & hierarchical linear modeling
- Completion of independent qualitative field study that used the grounded theory approach
- Training in SAS, SPSS, Mplus, AMOS, & Atlas/ti
Manuscript Writing & Preparation
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Exceptional writing mentorship from a renowned social work scholar/academic (Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW) whose research articles have been cited more than 1,000 times, among the highest citation rates in social work
- Authored/co-authored 9 published peer-reviewed journal articles
Intervention/Treatment Manual Conceptualization & Development
- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Advanced doctoral course work in development of social intervention models that included treatment manual conceptualization and development