Bééhózin Consulting
Services
In Navajo bééhózin is a verb that means that something is known, or that knowledge about something exists. I have been doing evaluation work for nearly ten years operating from the approach of Indigenous Research and Evaluation Methodology. Indigenous people are natural scientists, researchers, storytellers and we have the knowledge to effectively evaluate what is being implemented in our communities in a way that is relevant to us.
Strategic Planning
From conducting strategic planning sessions to writing a proposal to evaluating a funded project, Bééhózin Consulting has the experience and expertise to provide support to your organization from start to finish. Strategic planning is an essential component to carrying out a successful program. Start with the end in mind.
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Caroline Davis is a trained and certified Institute for Cultural Affairs ToP Strategic Planning facilitator. This approach is a collection of group facilitation methods that helps groups think, talk, and work together through structured methods that will recognize and honor the contributions of all participants, deal with more data in less time, pool individual contributions into larger, more informative and inclusive patterns, and use diversity as an asset while minimizing polarization and conflict.
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Caroline has provided strategic planning facilitation to non-profit organizations, small businesses, Urban Indian Health Centers, and more. Facilitation sessions have ranged from small groups of less than 10 up to 40 participants. Every session has provided critical viewpoints into planning and Caroline has received positive reviews from participants.
Evaluation Services
Caroline focuses her evaluation approach in Indigenous Research and Evaluation methods, community engaged evaluation, and empowerment evaluation. These approaches prioritize the community and those directly affected by the program being implemented. These approaches emphasize utility and usability. Evaluation is for you and your community.
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Caroline has worked on large scale evaluation projects for HRSA, ACF, CDC, and SAMHSA as well as provided training and technical assistance to funded Tribal nations and Community Based Organizations. On those projects she developed culturally relevant templates for logic models and evaluation plans. She was provided guidance documents on evaluation in Tribal communities. Contracting Bééhózin Consulting as your evaluation consultant will bring that level of expertise to your organization or project.
Additionally, Caroline has served as the external evaluator for many Tribes and organizations including the Albuquerque Area Dental Services Center, multiple Tribal nations on IHS Suicide Prevention and Substance Abuse Prevention projects, and much more.
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Hiring Bééhózin Consulting as your external evaluator will ensure that evaluation of your project, program, or organization is meaningful, useful, and community driven.
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Grant Writing
From conducting strategic planning sessions to writing a proposal to evaluating a funded project, Bééhózin Consulting has the experience and expertise to provide support to your organization. We have nearly 10 years of experience working with federal grants, state grants, and foundation grants.
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In addition to technical writing, Caroline has the background knowledge of various areas of health and human services, project management experience that will ensure a clear and thorough process from planning to submission of the grant proposal.
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Caroline also has 7 years of experience reviewing grants for several federal agencies, including Indian Health Services (IHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA), Office of Minority Health (OMH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is well experienced and will ensure that your proposal is exactly what program officers and reviewers are looking for making it much more likely for your project to be funded.
Other Writing & Design Services
Caroline has years of experience in writing, including technical writing. In addition to grant writing, Bééhózin Consulting can provide support in writing Impact Stories, program reports, evaluation findings and reports, program manuals, and training and technical assistance products.
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Caroline has previously developed lessons for high school students to learn more about various areas of public health. She redesigned and wrote the student externship manual for New Mexico State University's public health program.
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Caroline has years of experience in data visualization as well as more recent graphic design. She partnered with Vanafire Consulting, a Native American owned wildfire prevention consultant, in developing Community Wildfire Prevention Plans for counties in Arizona. She provided formatting and design.
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This is only a small sample of the expertise at Bééhózin Consulting. Book an initial free consultation to hear more on products that are specific to your needs.
Decolonizing your evaluation work and your organization
"It needs to be something that's going to be helpful for you. And that's often where I start when consulting with any of the tribal communities that I've worked with, just asking the question, what do you want to know? What is going to be helpful for you to know, helpful for your community to know? And I think that that's an approach that Western evaluation is just starting to catch up to that idea. I've seen a lot of these evaluation consulting firms that kind of push this idea of "we really focus on usability and utility and we really focus on the community" and they really market it like it's this novel concept, that they're being really progressive and forward thinking, when Indigenous evaluation has already been there and they're just starting to catch up to that."
-Caroline Davis, Indigenous Insights Podcast
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work often lead to minimal, if any, changes within an organization experiencing inequities because they operate within systems designed to benefit patriarchal colonized environments. In order to make real, impactful change those systems and environments must be dismantled and rebuilt from a decolonized foundation. Some level of decolonization can be accomplished organization wide, within a specific team or project, or on a scale in between. Integrating Indigenous Research and Evaluation Methods is a specific example that we can help your organization or project with.
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To learn more book an initial consultation.