Developing Skills for Healthier Communities

Skills4 offers services in 4 key ares

Technical Assistance for Community Based Organizations, Health Departments, Planning Groups

When your program funds are limited and your staff is already multi-tasking, how can you make even better inroads to improving health measures in your community? Whether you work in disease prevention or disease state management, Skills4 can help you extend your reach and improve your impact. With technical assistance from Skills4, your staff will learn how to work smarter, not just harder.

 

• You’ll learn how to grow a volunteer pilot program into a well-funded
  department in your agency.

• You’ll see how simple evaluation tools can convince government
  agencies to commit more funding to helping people in your
  community.

• You’ll learn how to supplement required staff trainings in
  interventions and model practices. Skills4 will guide your agency
  through best hiring, training and supervision practices.

• You’ll see how setting manageable goals gives staff a renewed
  sense of purpose, and improves program accountability.

• And you’ll learn how to develop a strategic plan for the future growth
  and relevance of your mission.

Grant writing and coordination

Skills4’s team can write a grant to help your agency hire staff, or build infrastructure, or expand current programs. A meeting or teleconference with your senior staff or board of directors is all that’s needed to start the process. We’ll develop a wish list of funding goals, and establish a plan to seek funding in support of each goal.

 

Since 1997, Skills4 has written grants to federal agencies and state entities, as well as regional and private foundations. Our successful track record assures you that your proposal will get the most generous review possible. You can contract with Skills4 to write a core narrative application in response to a funding announcement. The core narrative typically includes:

• Abstract / Introduction

• Justification of Need for Proposed Project

• Research supporting the proposed method and activities your project will undertake

• Agency history / Organizational Summary

• Experience providing similar services / or your clinic or agency’s capacity to expand to the proposed services

• Program Plan, work plan, and / or and time line for implementation

• Program Evaluation Plan and Quality Assurance

• Skills4 contracts for grant writing projects on an hourly basis. We will give you a set range of hours, so you’ll know how little or how much time the project will take.  You can even retain our services on an ongoing basis to seek out grants for your agency.

 

 

Prevention/Behavioral Workshop

Helping people live healthy lives requires an ever-expanding encyclopedia of knowledge.  Caring staff members don’t always have the time to read every medical update or plow through the theory behind every new behavioral intervention.  Skills4 can update your staff in a single interactive session, or provide a series of interactive trainings.

• Our trainings can give your staff the tools they need to bring the most current information to clients and community members, all in culturally competent formats.  We’ll use role play activities to ensure that you are delivering messages in a way that intuitively impacts your target population.

• Other workshops bring key health messages to your target population in accessible language, with memorable examples and motivational exercises.  Whether you’re trying to move community norms away from risky sexual practices, substance use, sedentary lifestyles, or smoking, Skills4 staff will deliver messages that your community hears, understands, and believes in.

Treatment Education and Patient Support

How do you ensure that clients living with chronic diseases will enjoy the longest, healthiest lives possible?  Skills4 treatment education and patient support brings you both the new information and the tools to motivate healthy living practices.

 

You’ll leave the training feeling confident to

• Discuss treatment issues with patients in ways that improve treatment adherence and durability

• Reframe client encounters in ways that elicit disclosure of adherence challenges

• Identify perceived barriers to treatment adherence

• Develop skills for imparting key “takeaway” messages that clients and patients will recall and act upon.

Skills4 has delivered training workshops to professionals at national conferences, regional trainings, and clinic grand rounds.  We’ve also delivered direct patient education through support group meetings, community forums, and customized social marketing campaigns.

 

If you have other specific needs, just click on “contact us” and send an e-mail describing your goals.

About Skills4

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Developing Skills for Healthier Communities

• Directed disease prevention and care programs at five community
   health agencies;

• Managed a CDC demonstration project for integrating combined health
   screening services;

• Served on advisory boards and review committees for the CDC;

• Facilitated seminars and workshops at national conferences, high
   school and college assemblies, planning council meetings, and
   international headquarters.• Directed a national TA project for HRSA;

• Written white papers and epidemiological reports for regional health
   coalitions and state health departments;

• Written clinical testing protocols for  U.S. territories;

• Secured new funding for national health providers, federally qualified
   health centers, integrated health service centers, and small grass roots
   agencies;

• Coordinated regional and national health conferences;

• Written health editorials which have appeared in trade magazines,
   consumer health magazines, and newspapers;

• Created original educational videos, distributed by national vendors;

• Created and maintained websites for community based organizations,
   federal health service providers, and commercial interests

• Group level facilitation

• Outreach competencies

• Grant writing

• Behavioral and treatment research updates for professional and lay staff

• Hiring, training and supervising staff in prevention and care
• Program evaluation

• IT and web design

• Strategic planning

• Board development

• Financial planning and fiscal management for CBOs

• Conference coordination

• Our trainings can give your staff the tools they need to bring the most current information to clients and community members, all in culturally competent formats.  We’ll use role play activities to ensure that you are delivering messages in a way that intuitively impacts your target population.

• Other workshops bring key health messages to your target population in accessible language, with memorable examples and motivational exercises.  Whether you’re trying to move community norms away from risky sexual practices, substance use, sedentary lifestyles, or smoking, Skills4 staff will deliver messages that your community hears, understands, and believes in.

• Discuss treatment issues with patients in ways that improve treatment adherence and durability

• Reframe client encounters in ways that elicit disclosure of adherence challenges

• Identify perceived barriers to treatment adherence

• Develop skills for imparting key “takeaway” messages that clients and patients will recall and act upon.

Developing Skills for Healthier Communities

Technical Assistance for Community Based Organizations, Health Departments, Planning Groups

When your program funds are limited and your staff is already multi-tasking, how can you make even better inroads to improving health measures in your community? Whether you work in disease prevention or disease state management, Skills4 can help you extend your reach and improve your impact. With technical assistance from Skills4, your staff will learn how to work smarter, not just harder.

 

Group level facilitation

• You’ll learn how to grow a volunteer pilot program into a well-funded

• Grant writing

• Behavioral and treatment research updates for professional and lay
   staff

• Hiring, training and supervising staff in prevention and care
• Program evaluation

• IT and web design

• Strategic planning

• Board development

• Financial planning and fiscal
  management for CBOs

• Conference coordination

Helping people live healthy lives requires an ever-expanding encyclopedia of knowledge.  Caring staff members don’t always have the time to read every medical update or plow through the theory behind every new behavioral intervention.  Skills4 can update your staff in a single interactive session, or provide a series of interactive trainings.

How do you ensure that clients living with chronic diseases will enjoy the longest, healthiest lives possible?  Skills4 treatment education and patient support brings you both the new information and the tools to motivate healthy living practices.

 

You’ll leave the training feeling confident to

• Discuss treatment issues with patients in ways that improve treatment adherence and durability

• Reframe client encounters in ways that elicit disclosure of adherence challenges

• Identify perceived barriers to treatment adherence

• Develop skills for imparting key “takeaway” messages that clients and patients will recall and act upon.

Skills4 has delivered training workshops to professionals at national conferences, regional trainings, and clinic grand rounds.  We’ve also delivered direct patient education through support group meetings, community forums, and customized social marketing campaigns.

 

If you have other specific needs, just click on “contact us” and send an e-mail describing your goals.

Developing Skills for Healthier Communities

• You’ll learn how to grow a volunteer pilot program into a well-funded department in your agency.

• You’ll see how simple evaluation tools can convince government agencies to commit more funding to helping people in your community.

• You’ll learn how to supplement required staff trainings in interventions and model practices. Skills4 will guide your agency through best hiring, training and supervision practices.

• You’ll see how setting manageable goals gives staff a renewed sense of purpose, and improves program accountability.

• And you’ll learn how to develop a strategic plan for the future growth and relevance of your mission.

In some cases, you can request Skills4’s services at no cost to your agency or clinic by submitting a CRIS request through the CDC.  For all other projects, Skills4’s project lead will advise on the most economical level of service needed to achieve you goals.  The first step is to contact us at info@skills4.org

Group level facilitation

• Outreach competencies

• Grant writing

• Behavioral and treatment research updates for
   professional and lay staff

• Hiring, training and supervising staff in prevention
   and care
• Program evaluation

• IT and web design

• Strategic planning

• Board development

• Financial planning and fiscal management for
   CBOs

• Conference coordination

Helping people live healthy lives requires an ever-expanding encyclopedia of knowledge.  Caring staff members don’t always have the time to read every medical update or plow through the theory behind every new behavioral intervention.  Skills4 can update your staff in a single interactive session, or provide a series of interactive trainings.

How do you ensure that clients living with chronic diseases will enjoy the longest, healthiest lives possible?  Skills4 treatment education and patient support brings you both the new information and the tools to motivate healthy living practices.

 

You’ll leave the training feeling confident to

• Discuss treatment issues with patients in ways that improve treatment adherence and durability

• Reframe client encounters in ways that elicit disclosure of adherence challenges

• Identify perceived barriers to treatment adherence

• Develop skills for imparting key “takeaway” messages that clients and patients will recall and act upon.

Skills4 has delivered training workshops to professionals at national conferences, regional trainings, and clinic grand rounds.  We’ve also delivered direct patient education through support group meetings, community forums, and customized social marketing campaigns.

 

If you have other specific needs, just click on “contact us” and send an e-mail describing your goals.

Developing Skills for Healthier Communities

• You’ll learn how to grow a volunteer pilot program into a well-funded department in your agency.

• You’ll see how simple evaluation tools can convince government agencies to commit more funding to helping people in your community.

• You’ll learn how to supplement required staff trainings in interventions and model practices. Skills4 will guide your agency through best hiring, training and supervision practices.

• You’ll see how setting manageable goals gives staff a renewed sense of purpose, and improves program accountability.

• And you’ll learn how to develop a strategic plan for the future growth and relevance of your mission.


Skills4’s team can write a grant to help your agency hire staff, or build infrastructure, or expand current programs. A meeting or teleconference with your senior staff or board of directors is all that’s needed to start the process. We’ll develop a wish list of funding goals, and establish a plan to seek funding in support of each goal.


Since 1997, Skills4 has written grants to federal agencies and state entities, as well as regional and private foundations. Our successful track record assures you that your proposal will get the most generous review possible. You can contract with Skills4 to write a core narrative application in response to a funding announcement. The core narrative typically includes:

Abstract / Introduction

• Justification of Need for Proposed Project

• Research supporting the proposed method and activities your project will undertake

• Agency history / Organizational Summary

• Experience providing similar services / or your clinic or agency’s capacity to expand to the proposed services

• Program Plan, work plan, and / or and time line for implementation

• Program Evaluation Plan and Quality Assurance

• Skills4 contracts for grant writing projects on an hourly basis. We will give you a set range of hours, so you’ll know how little or how much time the project will take. You can even retain our services on an ongoing basis to seek out grants for your agency.

Helping people live healthy lives requires an ever-expanding encyclopedia of knowledge.  Caring staff members don’t always have the time to read every medical update or plow through the theory behind every new behavioral intervention.  Skills4 can update your staff in a single interactive session, or provide a series of interactive trainings.

How do you ensure that clients living with chronic diseases will enjoy the longest, healthiest lives possible?  Skills4 treatment education and patient support brings you both the new information and the tools to motivate healthy living practices.

 

You’ll leave the training feeling confident to

• Discuss treatment issues with patients in ways that improve treatment adherence and durability

• Reframe client encounters in ways that elicit disclosure of adherence challenges

• Identify perceived barriers to treatment adherence

• Develop skills for imparting key “takeaway” messages that clients and patients will recall and act upon.

Skills4 has delivered training workshops to professionals at national conferences, regional trainings, and clinic grand rounds.  We’ve also delivered direct patient education through support group meetings, community forums, and customized social marketing campaigns.

 

If you have other specific needs, just click on “contact us” and send an e-mail describing your goals.