We work with small businesses and community-based nonprofit organizations to design systems, programs, and projects, and to identify and evaluate innovations and best practices.
Below are some examples of our consulting projects. We are always looking for new challenges and ways to use data, narrative, and lived experience in elevating wellness.
The Social Changery
With funding from Alameda County, Live & Learn conducted an evaluation of a web-based app, AllyNetworks, which connects refugee/immigrant participants and transition age youth from newcomer families with mental health services.
Behavioral Health Concepts
Live & Learn assisted Behavioral Health Concepts, Inc. with its services as a federally certified External Quality Review Organization for Medicaid. Under contract with the California Department of Health Services, these services include reviewing county MediCal data and reports as well as interviewing stakeholders all 58 counties.
Statewide Consumer Networks
Supported the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in convening grantee programs and facilitating discussions around sustainability and collaboration.
National Center for Trauma-Informed Care
Live & Learn advised the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC) on evaluation of the impact of technical assistance on trauma-informed management and personnel practices in nonprofit organizations.
Tobacco Harm Reduction Research Project
Live & Learn supported investigators from UC San Francisco and the Rose Research Center to evaluate the impact of harm reduction approaches to changing tobacco use by individuals with psychiatric history.
Heart & Soul, Inc.
Live & Learn worked with Heart & Soul, Inc. to conduct an evaluation of the HOPE program in San Mateo, a Whole Person Care Pilot Program. The HOPE program is a joint effort by several San Mateo CBOs to provide a peer mentoring program to support wellness, recovery, and resiliency for people returning to the community following a hospital discharge.
Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc.
Live & Learn assisted the GOBHI Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative/David Romprey Oregon Warmline Peer Team to identify instruments to measure and demonstrate impacts of the peer support relationship and recommend data collection protocol based on best practices in peer support research.
Sage Surfer
Live & Learn advised Sage Surfer in pursuit of their mission of leveraging technology to build a healthcare system where every member of the care team has the whole story on the client's needs and treatment and where the client is at the center of the recovery plan, resulting in a world where no one suffers alone, and where help is available at the click of a button.
Trinity County, California
Live & Learn provided expertise in peer support program design and evaluation to Trinity County which received funds for a peer respite home through the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) and the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA).
California Association of Mental Health Peer-Run Organizations
The California Association of Mental Health Peer-Run Organizations' (CAMHPRO) has partnered with Live & Learn to develop methods to evaluate the impact of advocacy on mental health policy and services in the State of California, and to survey member nonprofits around the state.