Project Descriptions

Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Program Evaluation
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting served as the local evaluator for a five-year grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and substance use prevention among unhoused, LGBTQ+ young adults ages 18-24 in San Francisco.

Strategic Assistance for a Coalition of Black Led Organizations
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting supported the San Francisco Black Led Organizations Coalition (SFBLOC) by reviewing a draft of their first-ever strategic plan and providing substantive recommendations for the final document, creating a strong foundation for the Coalition’s future work.

Evaluating Naloxone Boxes to Prevent Overdoses in Michigan
Harm Reduction Michigan

Facente Consulting implemented an evaluation of Harm Reduction Michigan’s initiative to establish naloxone boxes as a form of overdose prevention.

Developing and Evaluating Glide’s Contingency Management Program
Glide

Facente Consulting supported Glide in designing and evaluating a new participant-centered contingency management program.

Planning for Program Integration for People Living With HIV
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting facilitated a series of planning meetings with the San Francisco Community Health Center to develop a new program workflow that would integrate three distinct programs for people living with HIV, including a centralized intake assessment and case manager assignment process.

Executive Coaching and Support to Improve Organizational Functioning
Tenderloin Community Benefit District

The Tenderloin Community Benefit District hired Facente Consulting to provide executive leadership support and support development of organizational systems, processes, and problem-solving approaches.

Remedy Alliance Theory of Change
Remedy Alliance for the People

Facente Consulting is collaborating with Remedy Alliance to develop a theory of change that communicates their important role in distributing life-saving naloxone.

Evaluation of Gender-Inclusive School Trainings in California
Gender Spectrum

Facente Consulting evaluated the impact of Gender Spectrum’s gender-inclusive trainings on staff and students from trained schools.

Coordination of the 2020 International AIDS Conference
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting was hired to plan and facilitate highly political local coordinating committee meetings for the 2020 International AIDS Conference, which was slated to be jointly held in San Francisco and Oakland, CA until it was forced to move to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosperity Broward Community Engagement Process Guide
Ocha Transformations

Facente Consulting worked with Ocha Transformations to create a how-to guide for Prosperity Broward’s work to identify community strengths, barriers, and recommendations for policies that support pathways toward economic mobility in Florida.

Strategic Support for the California Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction Initiative
National Harm Reduction Coalition

Facente Consulting provided strategic support gathering data and stakeholder input and developed a document to guide NHRC’s internal infrastucture and capacity-building work.

Impact Evaluation of a Social Connection Intervention to Improve LGBTQ+ Mental Health
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting served as the lead evaluator for a local LGBTQ+ mental health-focused impact evaluation that involved evaluation design, managing IRB approvals, overseeing data collection, and quantitative analysis.

Development of National Performance Standards for Syringe Services Programs
NASTAD

Facente Consulting developed national syringe services program performance standards intended for use by public health departments, community-based organizations, service providers, and community stakeholders.

SFDPH Community Referral Network Assessment and Recommendations
SFDPH Community Health Equity and Promotion (CHEP)

Facente Consulting provided support to the SFDPH Community Health Equity & Promotion Branch to implement the initial phases of their Community Referral Network and develop recommendations for future expansion based on stakeholder input.

Coordinating Stakeholder Engagement for a Transportation Study on Treasure Island
One Treasure Island

Facente Consulting worked with multiple partners to manage stakeholder engagement during a transportation study on Treasure Island, including developing a written community survey and coordinating four in-person focus groups, in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Strategic Planning to Eliminate Disparities in Oral Health Care for all San Francisco Children
Cavity Free SF

Facente Consulting supported Cavity Free SF’s strategic planning process to address persistent oral health disparities among children in San Francisco.

Strategic Planning to Better Support Homeless Families
Raphael House

Facente Consulting helped Raphael House to develop a realistic vision of “what can and should be,” with the explicit purpose of seeking funding that will transform the fiscal standing, scope, and reach of the agency in the future.

Development and Implementation of Organizational Impact Evaluation
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

San Francisco AIDS Foundation asked Facente Consulting to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to monitor potential changes in client outcomes following implementation of their new strategic plan.

HIV and Housing Assessment and Call to Action
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting worked with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to develop a community-driven plan to end homelessness among people living with HIV, resulting in a call to action for San Francisco to address the root causes of homelessness for all people in the city.

Strategic Support and Facilitation for All Home Staff and Board
All Home

Facente Consulting helped All Home chart a strategic path forward in their efforts to disrupt homelessness.

Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance for Oncology Programs
Gilead Sciences

Facente Consulting is providing training and technical assistance to grant recipients of the Gilead Oncology Corporate Giving Program to support them in evaluating the impact of programs on improving outcomes and health equity among people affected by cancer.

Rafiki Coalition Project Management
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

The Rafiki Coalition hired Facente Consulting to provide program management and create and refine hiring solutions during a period of organizational transition.

BEAM Staff Retreat
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

Facente Consulting facilitated the annual end-of-year strategic visioning and wellness retreat for BEAM – the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective.

Strategic Planning to End Family Homelessness
Hamilton Families

Hamilton Families asked Facente Consulting to assist them in developing a three-year strategic plan to cultivate organizational excellence, strengthen high-impact services for homeless families during the pandemic recovery period, and design an advocacy program to drive systemic change for the future.

Building Evaluation Capacity for Programs who serve People Living with HIV
The Shanti Project

Facente Consulting helped The Shanti Project to develop an evaluation tool that would collect clients’ feedback and opinions on the program, yield data to monitor program quality, and allow them to share program impacts when applying for future funding.

Developing a “Story Map” about Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
CAMI Health

Facente Consulting helped develop a website that synthesized secondary data, mapping, and video interviews into a compelling narrative around reproductive health options in sub-Saharan Africa.

Theory of Change Development for Harm Reduction Programming
AIDS United

Facente Consulting led a 2-day retreat to help AIDS United develop a theory of change to guide their future harm reduction initiatives.

Program Planning for Rafiki Coalition’s UMOJA Health Access Point
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting provided program planning, retreat facilitation, and implementation technical assistance to the Rafiki Coalition to launch UMOJA, a Health Access Point funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health to provide coordinated, wholistic, and Afrocentric services to address the syndemic of HIV, HCV, STIs and related health and social issues within San Francisco’s Black and African American communities,

LGBTQ+ Commercial Tobacco Control Program Evaluation Support
San Francisco Community Health Center

San Francisco Community Health Center hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for a five-year project focused on reducing commercial tobacco-related disparities in the LGBTQ+ community though coalition-building and policy change.

Strategic Planning for SAMHSA Harm Reduction Grantees
NASTAD

In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting supported strategic planning processes for the 25 recipients of SAMHSA’s first harm reduction grants.

Visualizing Drug-Checking Results as a Tool for Autonomy and Harm Reduction in the Drug User Community
HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County

Facente Consulting collaborated with the HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County to make drug-checking results accessible to people who use drugs.

Harm Reduction and Housing Video Series
NASTAD

In partnership with NASTAD, Facente Consulting created a two-page summary, as well as a series of videos summarizing evidence, that provide tools and best practices and highlight a variety of real-life examples of harm reduction housing models that support frontline workers.

Retreat Facilitation for NEXT Distro and SANE
NEXT Distro

Facente Consulting supported NEXT Distro, an online and mail-based harm reduction service, in developing its strategic next steps toward health equity and sustainability.

94124 COVID Connect & Care (C3) Project Management
Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

Facente Consulting provided project management support that enabled the Rafiki Coalition to create a coalition of agencies designed to address disparities in COVID-19 testing, infection, and care for Blacks/African Americans in San Francisco.

Evaluation for CDC-Funded Syringe Service Program Vaccine Scale-Up
NASTAD

Facente Consulting conducted a program evaluation for CDC-funded syringe service programs working to scale up vaccine delivery capacity at their programs.

Strategic Planning for Hepatitis C Elimination
Hep C Free Allegheny

Even before COVID-19 made “Zoom” a household word, Facente Consulting worked with Hep C Free Allegheny to virtually facilitate a strategic planning process for their hepatitis C elimination initiative, cutting costs and maximizing efficiency while planning their next three years of priorities.

Creating a Toolkit for Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Harm Reduction Settings
NASTAD

Facente Consulting created a technical assistance package for NASTAD, providing information and helpful tools and tips about the use of CBPR models to evaluate impact of harm reduction programs.

Strategic Planning for HIV and Aging Programs
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Leadership of San Francisco AIDS Foundation asked Facente Consulting to create a “mini strategic plan” to support a comprehensive network of health and wellness services for people over the age of 50 who are living with HIV.

Goal Setting and Program Planning for a Permanent Supportive Housing Provider
Alameda Point Collaborative

Facente Consulting worked with Alameda Point Collaborative to support a small-scale strategic planning process and the development of a theory of change, with the goal of reviewing key initiatives and centering resident feedback as they enter into an era of growth and redevelopment of housing projects.

Capacity-Building Assistance for Programs Serving Trans People in the Midwest
San Francisco Community Health Center

Facente Consulting supported San Francisco Community Health Center in designing and implementing 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.

Planning and Facilitation of a Summit on the Rural Opioid Crisis
Project Inform

Project Inform hired Facente Consulting to lead the agenda planning, logistics, and facilitation of a two-day summit focusing on the opioid crisis and related public health issues in the rural northern counties of California.

Facilitation of Board Retreat for Greater Richmond Interfaith Program
Greater Richmond Interfaith Program

Facente Consulting provided strategic facilitation to support Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) board in its mission to help community members transition to self-sufficiency.

Retreat Facilitation to Support Teamwork within a Harm Reduction Program
GLIDE

The GLIDE Harm Reduction team hired Facente Consulting to design and facilitate a full-day retreat to improve their functioning and effectiveness as a team.

Strategic Planning to Guide Investments in Communities Most Impacted by HIV
San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Facente Consulting led a year-long strategic planning process for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, incorporating the input of more than 1,000 stakeholders to usher the Foundation into a new era of expanded, health justice focused work.

Technical Assistance to Support Hepatitis C Surveillance
NASTAD

Shelley Facente and Katie Burk were selected as members of a new national technical assistance center at NASTAD designed to support viral hepatitis prevention and surveillance personnel at state, territorial, and major city/county health departments.

Evaluation and “True North” Facilitation for Youth LGBT Program
The San Francisco LGBT Center

Facente Consulting was hired to assist the Youth Program at the SF LGBT Center in refining their program outcomes and objectives, developing measurement tools and processes, and assembling a written evaluation manual for use moving forward.

Treasure Island Visioning Process
One Treasure Island

Facente Consulting worked with One Treasure Island, a local nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of Treasure Island, to conduct a process that established a shared aspirational vision statement for the island rooted in inclusion, equity, and belonging and that supports a cultural foundation for the community and its redevelopment.

Strategic Planning for LGBTQ+ Seniors
Openhouse

Openhouse hired Facente Consulting to lead a strategic planning process designed to make the organization’s services more inclusive of LGBTQ+ seniors who have been forced to demonstrate the greatest resilience to longstanding racism, classism, homophobia, and/or transphobia.

Promotional Material Development to Improve Service Experience of Clients Living with HIV
Shanti Project

The Shanti Project hired Facente Consulting to develop promotional materials that would reduce inappropriate referrals to Shanti’s services and improve client satisfaction.

Facilitation of the Community Advisory Team for RTI International’s Strengthening Syringe Services Project
RTI International

Facente Consulting facilitated a newly formed Community Advisory Team that guided the Strengthening Syringe Services project, led by RTI International.

Development of Online Training for Syringe Services Programs
ETR

ETR hired Facente Consulting to serve as a subject matter expert in the design of an online training to support syringe services programs in applying the CDC’s “Syringe Services Programs: A Technical Package of Effective Strategies and Approaches for Planning, Design, and Implementation.”

Needs Assessment for Youth from Low-Income Families
One Treasure Island

Facente Consulting was hired by the Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative to conduct a youth needs assessment and develop a services plan to support Treasure Island families over a five-year period.

Facilitation and Planning Support for the East Bay Drug Checking Collaborative
HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County

Facente Consulting provided facilitation and project implementation support to the East Bay Drug Checking steering committee.

Strategic Planning to Manage Impending Budget Cuts
Hamilton Families

Unlike in the last round of strategic planning we did with them in 2021, in 2024 Hamilton Families wanted a scaled down strategic plan refresh, with review and updates to the priorities in the prior plan and a focus on managing expected budget cuts.

Development of a Comprehensive Program Evaluation for a Neighborhood-Wide Program
Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)

Facente Consulting helped TLCBD create a Theory of Change for their work, learn a new framework for evaluation, and develop an evaluation map to guide their future program evaluations.

Strategic Planning to Support People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Arc San Francisco

Facente Consulting worked with The Arc San Francisco to guide them in the creation of a strategic plan for 2021-2024 that would increase their focus on equity and propel the organization into a new era of service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Planning a Team Retreat to Support Workforce Transformation Efforts
San Francisco Community Health Center

San Francisco Community Health Center reached out to Facente Consulting to help plan activities and facilitate a retreat for their newly formed “Workforce Transformation” team, to help them solidify their identity, shared set of goals, and priorities for future work.

Statistical Analysis to Support Evaluation of a LGBTQ+ Mental Health Intervention
LGBTQ Connection

LGBTQ Connection hired Facente Consulting to provide advanced statistical support for 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.

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