Facente Consulting was contracted to serve as the lead evaluator for this local mental-health focused impact evaluation, with a primary responsibility for designing and implementing a local evaluation plan, managing IRB approvals and human subject concerns, overseeing data collection, and conducting a quantitative analysis of local participant data.
Project Descriptions
Impact Evaluation of a California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) to Improve LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Academic Manuscript Development
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Needs Assessment for HIV Care among Women, Infants, Children, and Youth, including Trans Women and Trans Youth
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Youth LGBT Program Evaluation and “True North” Facilitation
The San Francisco LGBT Center
Community Materials Development and Town Hall Meeting Facilitation for Dissemination of San Francisco’s Ending the Epidemics Plan
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Faente Consulting worked with community-based organizations representing five priority populations (Blacks/African Americans, Latines, trans women, people who inject drugs, and people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity) to develop town hall events and community-focused materials to disseminate information and gather community feedback about San Francisco’s plan to End the HIV, Hepatitis C, and STI epidemics.
California Reducing Disparities Project (CDRP) Statistical Analysis
LGBTQ Connection
The LGBTQ Connection hired Facente Consulting to provide advanced statistical support for the impact evaluation of their local intervention under the California Reducing Disparities Project, intended to reduce mental health disparities for young LGBTQ+ people in the Napa and Santa Rosa areas of California.
Strategic Planning for LGBTQ+ Seniors
Openhouse
Openhouse hired Facente Consulting to lead a strategic planning process designed to shift the organization’s emphasis toward a deliberate focus on LGBTQ+ seniors who have been forced to demonstrate the greatest resilience despite longstanding structural and individual racism, classism, homophobia, and/or transphobia.
Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Program Evaluation
San Francisco Community Health Center
Capacity-Bulding Assistance for Programs Serving Trans People in the Midwest
San Francisco Community Health Center
Facente Consulting supported the San Francisco Community Health Center to design and implement a six-session community of practice that brought together community-based organizations, health departments, and other agencies in the Midwest United States for peer-to-peer learning to improve HIV-related service delivery to trans people in the US.