Services
Galen Ellis, MPH, is a community health planner and provides consulting services in the areas of training and education, community organizing and community development, designing and planning programs, administration, evaluation, and supporting social entrepeneurs. She works with a reliable, creative, and established team of multidisciplinary consultants to provide the following services.
Visioning, Planning and Project Management
Effective organizational and program management begins with a vital process of developing a common vision and mission that provide the foundation for effective planning.
El-Askari Consulting provides the following planning and management assistance services:
- Strategic planning facilitation
- Designing and planning programs and campaigns
- Logic model planning
- Development and management of contracts, budgets and staffing plans
Assessment and Evaluation Services
El-Askari Consulting does not separate evaluation from any other phase of program planning and development. Our approach is participatory, based on the assumption that program participants are the experts in developing evaluation targets and measures, and interpreting and analyzing data and findings. Our evaluation designs are driven by the needs of the client and community and include continuous feedback for program improvements.
Evaluation activities have included developing evaluation goals and objectives, logic model development, designing appropriate data collection instruments, data collection, data analysis, and reporting.
Evaluation experience includes:
- Community needs assessments
- Participatory data analysis (including community residents and youth)
- Theory of change and logic model development and training
- Evaluation of community initiatives (e.g. local ordinance, educational, and media campaigns)
- Conference and training evaluation
- Coalition process and effectiveness surveys and other collaboration evaluation
- Measures of community-level efficacy and sense of control
- Case studies
- Key informant interviews
- Focus groups (and training of focus group facilitators)
- On-line surveys
- Embedded evaluation
- Distance learning evaluation
Facilitation, Training, and Communication
Relying heavily on principles of adult learning and empowerment education, El-Askari Consulting provides curriculum development, training, and facilitation services that engage participants in discovery processes and group problem solving that achieve high levels of change in individuals, knowledge, beliefs, and skills as well as group or community level practices.
We specialize in group processes and training programs that demystify highly technical information, improve communication and collaboration, and empower participants and stakeholders to utilize resources previously considered inaccessible to them.
El-Askari Consulting provides:
- Curriculum development and training design
- Adult education, training, and facilitation
- Development of educational materials
- Meeting and event planning
- Writing and editing of manuals, articles, planning, and policy documents
Business Development and Coaching
Utilizing planning and technical assistance skills developed over two decades of working in the public sector, Galen and her team provide business planning and coaching services to social entrepeneurs, including consultants, teachers, and healers.
Services include:
- Business planning
- Utilizing networks for marketing
- Event planning
- Budgeting and financial planning
