Our ClientsOur clients vary in size, type, scope and setting, but are all united by the desire to make the world a better place. We're honored to have served more than 50 clients, involving more than 300 not-for-profit organizations to date. Howell Consulting Group clients predominately come from the arenas listed below:
In September 2002, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted Arts for All: Los Angeles County Blueprint for Arts Education, a strategic plan to restore arts education - in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts - to the 1.6 million students in Los Angeles County's 81 school districts. Arts for All provides a series of policy changes and educational initiatives to create systemic change and institutionalize sequential, K-12 arts education in Los Angeles County school districts, based on the Visual and Performing Arts Standards for California Public Schools. The Blueprint proposes that systemic change can only occur through the commitment and involvement of every stakeholder group, and identifies the steps each stakeholder can take in its Call to Action Chart. Our Consultants have provided annual group facilitation training and coaching to more than 15 Arts for All districts. Aja Howell, our Senior Consultant, has provided strategic planning support services for Grossmont Union High School District, Lennox School District, Los Angeles County of Office Education (LACOE), Whittier Union High School, and Los Nietos Unified School District. For more information about Arts For All, please click the link above.
Best Start LA is a $125 million, multi-year investment created by First LA that aims to shape, strengthen and support five Los Angeles County communities by building resources and providing access to activities that improve the well-being, development and care experienced by pregnant women, parents of newborns and children age 5 and under. Howell Consulting Group Senior Consultant, Aja Howell is serving as Community Facilitator to support Para Los Niño's in the creation of a Best Start LA partnership, which is being developed by the community and for the community. At its foundation is a rich collaboration of diverse stakeholders, service providers, civic leaders, networks, parent groups and neighbors. Click above for more information about Best Start LA.
The Community Opportunities Fund supports organizational capacity building and policy and advocacy efforts by organizations serving the needs of children 0-5 and their families. The fund is intended to be responsive to the needs and creative ideas of community agencies to address and sustain outcomes identified by First 5 LA as key to the safety, health and readiness to learn of LA's youngest residents. Under the auspices of the Institute of Cultural Affairs and in partnership with consultants Kate Mrgudic and Kara Coleman, Howell Consulting Group will be providing Capacity Building and Technical Assistance support to 23 First 5 selected grantees. Technical assistance components comprised of an organizational self-assessment of four core capacities - Adaptive, Leadership, Management, and Technical and consulting services focused on supporting project implementation are included in COF grants. Technical Assistance consultants also provide group trainings and peer learning opportunities designed to address issues common among COF-funded agencies. Click the link above for more information about Community Opportunity Funds.
Partnerships For Families is a child abuse prevention program designed to address the needs of pregnant women and families with children age five years or younger who are at risk for child maltreatment in Los Angeles County. In conjunction with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), First 5 LA's goal is the prevention of child maltreatment by ensuring that families with children eighteen years and under live in physically and emotionally safe environments. The program's objectives include: improve quality of services and supports for at-risk families, increasing capacity of community partners to coordinate, collaborate and mobilize, as well as identify, engage, and serve at-risk families, and increasing information about prevention of child abuse and neglect. A $50 million program, PFF funded nine grantees, and their organizational partnership to provide the following services: case management; concrete services; intensive services for special needs; family supports including access to early care and education; and referrals/linkages to auxiliary community supports. Howell Consulting Group role has been to conducted initiative level assessments and recommendations, provided on-going quarterly learning exchanges among leadership, supported collaboratives with action planning, coaching, and technical assistance to build organizational and collaborative capacities. For more information about Partnership For Families please click the link above.
Techniques of Participation (ToP®) offers a series of facilitation trainings ranging appropriate for beginners to expert level consultants. The Technology of Participation ToP® teaches team members how to collaborate on projects and group facilitators how to effectively lead their team. ToP® provides methods that: recognize and honor contributions of all, Let a group deal with more data in less time, pool individual contributions into larger more informative patterns, and welcome diversity while minimizing polarization and conflict. Click above to register for an upcoming facilitation course.
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