Rachel Lanzerotti Consulting

Strategic Planning Project
Brookside Community Health Clinic (BCHC), San Pablo and
Richmond CA | www.clinicconsortium.org

Rachel Lanzerotti Consulting is partnering with Michael J. Wong Consulting to complete a strategic planning process with the Brookside Community Health Clinic, which offers comprehensive primary, prenatal, and dental care to people of all ages in West Contra Costa County.

Evaluation of the Parent Partnership Program
Fred Finch Youth Center, Oakland CA | www.fredfinch.org

Rachel Lanzerotti Consulting is building capacity and systems to evaluate the Parent Partnership Program at Fred Finch Youth Center. This program provides mentoring for caregivers of severely emotionally disturbed (SED) youth. Outcomes areas are focused on caregiver empowerment, participation in their child’s treatment, and connection to community resources.

Evaluation of Family ASTRO Event Leader Model & El Universo a Sus Pies The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco CA
www.astrosociety.org

Family ASTRO is a national project of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) that develops astronomy resources for families. Rachel Lanzerotti Consulting completed an assessment of the Family ASTRO Event Leader Model, focusing on findings related to the motivators, supports, and barriers to involvement by volunteer Event Leaders. We also gathered reviews from users of the ASP Spanish-language resource El Universo a Sus Pies (The Universe at Your Fingertips) and interviewed key informants regarding trends in science education resources for Spanish-speaking and Latino families.

Neighborhood Improvement Initiative - One East Palo Alto
(NII-OEPA) The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Palo Alto CA
www.hewlett.org

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Neighborhood Improvement Initiative (NII) is a multi-year, comprehensive urban revitalization effort that focuses on improving the quality of life for residents in three San Francisco Bay Area communities in east San Jose, west Oakland and the mid-town/university garden park corridor of East Palo Alto. The NII is designed to make lasting improvements in the conditions affecting residents at an individual and family, community-wide, and systemic level. Rachel is providing skills- and capacity-building and other support to site staff at One East Palo Alto (OEPA) and select grantees during the data collection planning and implementation phase of the NII-OEPA evaluation.

The Works
DiversityWorks, Oakland CA | www.diversityworks.org

The Works, a year-long program of DiversityWorks, is a peer diversity education program designed for high-school and college-aged youth. In order to document the ways in which participants may be changed by their experience in The Works, DiversityWorks contracted with Rachel to plan a preliminary, outcomes-based evaluation process. Rachel designed a pre- and post-survey for participants and led a focus group with several of the youth who completed a six-week intensive training in August 2003.

Homophobia and Racism Prevention in Schools Project (HARPS)
Intergroup Clearinghouse, San Francisco CA

The overall goal of the Homophobia and Racism Prevention in Schools (HARPS) project was to strengthen the capacity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and questioning (LGBTQIQ) communities to address and respond to racism both within LGBTQIQ communities and in school settings. With the convening organization, Intergroup Clearinghouse, Rachel coordinated a pilot project of six organizations convened to incorporate issues of race and racism into their anti-homophobia curricula for youth in Bay Area public schools. Rachel designed and taught a curriculum focused on institutional racism and organizational change and provided technical assistance tailored to each organization’s objectives.

Comprehensive Evaluation of Children’s Program
Shelter Network of San Mateo County | www.shelternetwork.org

As an Associate and Strategic Partner with LaFrance Associates, LLC, Rachel managed a three-year, comprehensive evaluation of Shelter Network of San Mateo’s Children’s Program. Shelter Network provides services to homeless families at four shelter sites throughout San Mateo County. Rachel provided team leadership and budget tracking; created and used data collection instruments in English and Spanish; held interviews and focus groups with homeless families; analyzed quantitative and qualitative data; and wrote reports on Shelter Network’s achievement of process and outcome objectives. Please see the LFA web site (www.lfagroup.com) for more information about this project, the Shelter Network First Step for Families Assessment and Planning project, and other projects (see Client List) which Rachel contributed to or managed.