Areas of Focus

Arbor Consulting Partners employs analytical approaches grounded in sociology and anthropology to address issues in four principal areas:

Community Development
Arbor Consulting Partners works with a range of individuals, organizations and communities to improve the effectiveness of community development initiatives. As social scientists, we have experience identifying the scope of factors that shape social change processes. We utilize both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess community needs and perspectives as well as particular community development interventions.
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Environment
Arbor Consulting Partners works on a broad cross-section of environmental issues. We are committed to perspectives and practices that promote better social and health outcomes and to helping communities, organizations and institutions achieve these outcomes.
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Public Health
Arbor Consulting Partners has expertise in a wide variety of public health issues, including HIV/AIDS prevention, substance abuse prevention and tobacco control, and childhood obesity and asthma reduction/prevention. We work with communities, organizations and institutions to achieve better health outcomes.
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Human Resources
Arbor Consulting Partners has worked extensively on an array of human resources issues in for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and in government agencies. We are committed to helping organizations achieve a respectful work environment in which all employees can find meaning in their work, and can achieve balance between their work demands and personal lives. We believe that a healthy organization can meet the dual agendas of the workplace and the worker.
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Early care and education
We have extensive experience working on early care and education policy, and evaluating programs in the field, including programs that promote career development among teachers of young children.  Given the growth of state universal pre-kindergarten programs and a range of efforts to ensure high quality programs....
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Arts and arts education
We bring in-depth experience to evaluating arts and arts education programs.  We strongly believe that the arts can strengthen communities and the economy.  We also believe in the value of educational programming that integrates the spectrum of art modalities, including visual arts, theater, dance and music into core curriculum.....
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