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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