Strategies provides practical and highly interactive training, as well as organizational needs assessments and individualized technical assistance to professionals in the field of family support.

Strategies’ capacity building activities focus on using a strengths-based perspective, promoting evidence-based practice, sustainability planning and developing effective public/private partnerships.

Increasingly, the social service sector is being challenged to provide evidence that their work is making a real difference for the people and communities they serve. A powerful and user-friendly evaluation tool to help programs answer these questions is the Family Development Matrix.

In a unique partnership the Strategies and the Institute for Community Collaborative Studies at California State University Monterey Bay provide training and technical assistance to organizations interested in learning how to use the Family Development Matrix in their programs.

The Strategies web page lists all upcoming trainings, includes a virtual tour of a Family Resource Center, provides links to relevant resources, and hosts a library of sample policies and procedures.

Community Training
Strategies draws from the broad range of expertise of Interface’s staff and consultants to provide community trainings in the areas of family support, child abuse prevention, cultural competency, domestic violence, mentoring programs, mental health issues and non-profit management.

Upon request, Strategies also provides meeting facilitation, strategic planning assistance, and individualized coaching services.