On-Site Data Collection and Evaluation: The design, management, and implementation of a wide range of data collection and evaluation activities. Our approach is one where evaluation strategies are developed in collaboration with the clients that we serve.

Evaluation Coaching and Technical Assistance: We work one-on-one with clients to address specific data collection and evaluation needs and build local capacity. We work with clients to help build their skills in the various aspects of data collection and evaluation including instrument development, collection, analysis, and report writing so that they can manage their own data collection and program evaluations.

Customized Evaluation Training Workshops: Development of evaluation training workshops to help organizations and practitioners build their own evaluation capacity. Workshops can be individualized on a variety of topics including the "nuts and bolts" of data collection and evaluation to more specific topic areas such as logic model development, data collection instrument development, how to use data once it is collected and analyzed, and writing reports for specific audiences (i.e., funders, community members, tribal leadership, state and federal agencies, Tribal Consultations, etc.).

Assistance with Grant Writing: Grant writing can be compared to creating a unique piece of art. Creating a grant with a strong likelihood of being funded often requires a great deal of research and understanding about how to tailor the grant to be responsive to the requests and requirements of the funder. Writing a grant can take a considerable amount of time and patience. We will work closely with the agencies and act as primary writers or as reviewers. The process we engage in requires a strong collaboration between our agency and the agency requesting assistance. We possess a great deal of experience writing successful grants for state and federal funding.

Understanding and developing "protective factors": We work one-on-one with communities to identify those factors that may serve to protect their members from various social concerns including: intimate partner violence, suicide, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, etc.

Protective factors are those factors that provide a mechanism that prevents or reduces the presence of or that mediates the negative effects of violence and trauma (Carlson, McNutt, Choi & Rose, 2002). Less knowledge exists about protective factors than risk factors because fewer empirical studies have been conducted in this area. Protective factors may function in three ways: (1) as a buffer to the identified risk factors thus mediating the negative effects; (2) as an interruption to the processes through which risk factors operate; and 3) as a prevention to the initial occurrence of a risk factor (Arthur et al., 2002). Protective factors include an individual's attitudinal and behavioral characteristics, as well as attributes of their environment and culture (Plutchik & Van Praag, 1994).

My dissertation entitled "Cultural Identity and Familial Relationships as Protective factors Against Intimate Partner violence Among American Indian and Alaska Native Mothers" is the first and only study to date that attempts to identify protective factors against IPV among American Indian and Alaska Native women.

Keynote Speaking: Over the past two years, I have been invited to speak nationally at various conference venues regarding the dynamics of intimate partner violence and healing through the process of story-telling and how to reject the shame survivors often feel; promoting a path to true self-actualization. Due to the overwhelming responses from those who have attended, at present, I am currently in the process of turning this work into a book "What if our normal meter is broken" and hope to have it complete by the end of 2017.