We deliver a strong return to your investment and for your community.

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We have secured over 14 million in funding for state child care programs and over 40 million for federal agencies.

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Our services and commitment are to work in partnership with our clients as they move towards becoming exemplary programs that provide the most responsive, effective, compliant, and comprehensive services to children and families through grant writing, consultation, training, development, health, and safety monitoring.

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Our staff will work with your team to understand your program objectives and needs, assuring that all areas of the grant proposal are covered.

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Our grant writing packages can include researching grant opportunities,  grant program design, development of the proposal narrative, development of budget including HR, writing and submitting a series of highly competitive grant proposals, reviewing grant proposals, providing insight on areas of improvement, including building upgrades, assistance with follow- up and grant reporting, building community, strategic goals, outcome measurements, data tracking, grant compliance and monitoring, grant reports, onsite visit preparation and recurring monthly monitoring.

We also provide services that will monitor and report on new and revised federal and state policies, and budget opportunities.

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We continue our services throughout the entire grant cycle, assuring your team will receive expert guidance throughout the application and appropriations process to ensure their success.

Our team will assist our clients: 

• In developing and establishing personnel policies and procedures, including but not limited to compensation and  benefits, training and development, compliance, workplace safety.

• Assist in developing a recruitment and hiring plan

• Provide organizational structure and the ability to meet business needs by effectively managing the employee lifecycle.

• Create competency and job descriptions

• Develop system to review applications, selection criteria, interview skills, to fulfill the competencies of each position.

• Assist client in developing a systematic approach to training and professional development for all staff which includes the philosophy and goals of the agency.

• Create health protocols and policies to ensure that all staff and volunteers are healthy and free of communicable diseases. Including mental health and wellness information.

• Develop policies on creating a safe work environment, manage employer-employee relations, how to maintain company culture, handle disciplinary actions, create a safe work environment.

Our team will help our clients with creating a solid training and professional development system, including timelines and benchmarks.

 

• All staff will be trained in program goals and the underlying philosophy of their program

• Create a systematic approach to training and professional development designed to assist staff in acquiring and/or increasing their knowledge and skills

• Assist in creating training and professional development that meets the minimum of 15 clock hours for teaching staff

• Assist in developing tools for training child and family services on best practices for implementing family engagement strategies

• Provide tools for supporting training for health and family services staff to build their knowledge, experience and competencies to improve child and family outcomes.

• Incorporate research based, coordinated coaching strategies which include, program school readiness goals, curricula, and other approaches to professional development.

• Develop and implement strategies on how to use assessment data to assist in training and reaching program goals.

 Our Program Planning and Development team assists our clients in:

• Developing measurable goals, management of systems and implementation, and focusing on the intended outcomes.

• Support our clients in training and professional growth

• Development and revisions of program policies and procedure

• Assist our clients in monitoring and reviewing, performance, ongoing compliance, oversight and corrective action plans.

• Develop management of program data and use for continuous improvement of services

• Create a manageable reporting system that allows for monitoring, assessment of outcomes and reportable data.

Our team will assist our clients in: 

• Establishing program goals, strategic long-term goals, and measurable outcomes.  These goals will be responsive to the community needs, and meet the standards in the areas of education, health, family and community engagement, and to promote school readiness. Including health and safety practices to ensure children are safe at all times.

•  Develop ongoing monitoring system that reviews program performance oversight and corrections, delivery of effective, high-quality program services.

• Teach how to collect data to ensure compliance

• Developing and implementing immediate correction plans

• Implement procedures that prevent recurrence of previous quality and compliance issues.

• Assist in ongoing review and assessment of program goals and outcomes

• Develop systems to use data for continuous improvement

• Assist and develop systems to include reporting data to stakeholders and boards.

Our team will help clients develop and create: 

• Fiscal policy and procedures, budget development, (operating, personnel, facility) cost allocations, administrative costs, direct and indirect costs, non-federal match, projections and review.

• Provide training on how to monitor actual expenditures against budget projections.

• Develop policy and procedures on making major purchases

• How to involve a board of directors and stakeholders in the budget process

• Develop and implementation of procurement procedures and inventory

• Relate budgeting process to program planning activities

• Develop systems to have clean audits and manageable budgets

• Projections of budgetary items in the future ( major renovations, construction, large purchases)

• Create and develop monthly reporting systems

• Train appropriate staff on how to read financial statements, including credit card expenditures.

• Develop budget planning and line items for expenditures and tracking

• How to submit a monthly, quarterly and yearly operating budget report to board and stakeholders.

• Develop a wage comparability study

• Create Time and Attendance procedures

• Assist in developing payroll procedures.