At the Center for Wellness and Nutrition, our training and technical assistance services are designed to empower your organization and community with the skills and support needed to achieve your public health goals. Our experienced team offers customized training, strategic planning, and expert consultation to ensure your initiatives are effective and impactful.

Strategic Planning

What We Do

We provide strategic planning services to give your organization a clear, actionable framework to achieve its goals. Our approach includes:

  • Mission and Vision Development: Crafting or refining your mission and vision to ensure they reflect your core objectives.
  • Goal Setting: Establishing objectives that support your goals and align with partners and funders.
  • Data-Informed Benchmarking: Anchoring your strategic plan with well-defined indicators and measurable outcomes.
  • Logic Models and Key Informant Interviews: Creating logic models and conducting in-depth interviews to enhance the effectiveness of your planning efforts.

Meeting Planning and Facilitation

What We Do

Effective meetings are crucial for driving progress and ensuring meaningful participation. Our team specializes in planning and facilitating meetings and conferences of all sizes, ensuring they are engaging, productive, and tailored to your needs. Our approach includes:

  • Goal Setting: Establishing clear goals and objectives for your meetings.
  • Agenda Development: Creating engaging agendas to guide discussions.
  • Event Promotion: Promoting your event effectively to maximize attendance and impact.
  • Group Facilitation: Designing and facilitating meaningful group processes and activities.
  • Speaker Coordination: Identifying and securing keynote and workshop speakers.
  • Logistics Planning: Handling logistics such as location, facilities, equipment, and services.
  • Impact Evaluation: Assessing the success of meetings and providing actionable feedback for improvement.

Community Health Assessments

What We Do

We support local health departments, hospitals, and clinics in developing comprehensive community health assessments. Our goal is to strengthen and create healthier communities through thorough evaluation and reporting. Our services include:

  • Assessment Tool Development: Creating tools and metrics for effective evaluations. This includes the development and implementation of health equity assessments.
  • Report Writing: Writing reports and summarizing findings to inform decision-making.
  • Customized Evaluation: Adapting evaluation methods based on funding and agency goals.

Partnership and Coalition Building

What We Do

Building effective partnerships and coalitions is key to achieving collective goals. We assist local and state coalitions in engaging community leaders and members in setting strategic goals, identifying common causes, and engaging community residents. Our services include:

  • Goal Definition: Defining and refining goals to guide coalition efforts.
  • Facilitation: Providing direction and facilitation for group efforts to ensure effective collaboration.
  • Activity Customization: Tailoring activities based on the specific needs of the group.
  • Partner Identification: Identifying and engaging partners who can help achieve your goals.
  • Community Support: Gaining support from the community to advance coalition objectives.

Youth and Community Engagement

What We Do

We focus on integrating nutrition and physical activity opportunities into schools, after-school programs, and community settings. By partnering with young people as change agents, we work to create healthier communities. Our approach includes providing training that helps foster supportive environments where youth can grow and develop essential skills. Our services include:

  • Strategy Development: Designing and evaluating effective strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity in schools and communities.
  • Program Implementation: Delivering proven programs like Harvest of the Month™ and Power Play! campaigns to inspire positive behavior changes.
  • Staff Training: Equipping staff with the skills to engage youth and community members through models like Youth-led and Community Participatory Action Research.
  • Youth and Community Leadership: Amplifying the voices of youth and community members, empowering them to take leadership roles in health initiatives.
  • Health Equity Messaging: Collaborating with young people and community members to create impactful health equity messages, and advocate for policy changes.

Our training and technical assistance services are interactive and grounded in adult and childhood education learning principles and best practices. We tailor each program to meet your organization’s specific needs, ensuring effective and relevant support.

To explore how we can support your organization, please call us at 916.265.4042 or email .