Constellation Rising LLC | Constellation Consulting LLC
TOGETHER WE RISE Serving since 2012, Founded 2019
CONSTELLATION RISING
Together We Rise
Serving Since 2012, Founded 2019
Constellation Rising
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ad astra per asperum (to the stars through difficulty)
A vibrant, diverse,
caring, visionary collective
of stellar hearts and minds offering
smart, creative, love-centered, needed
solutions to the world's big challenges. We use
the best ancient and modern tools and technologies to
foster, guide, and scale systems transformation and innovation.
We are centered in love, interdependence, equity, justice, and wellbeing.
We offer a dynamic portfolio of professional consulting services
customized to your community, organization, or business.
Non-profit, public, private, and community-driven
organizations at all levels are welcome.
Let's be the change we seek;
rising rooted together.
mWe are one.
Our Valued Partners
PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
TRANSFORMATIVE EVALUATION TO CREATE A CULTURE OF EQUITY AND BELONGING IN MARIN COUNTY
Our team has partnered closely with equity leaders and champions at Marin County to assess world-class racial equity and social justice educational offerings by World Trust. Leading and learning with a diverse Guiding Council, we have engaged in participatory mixed methods research including surveys, Storytelling Sessions (the next evolution in in-depth interviews), and observations.
Both a Logic Model and a Theory of Change are also being developed to create a clear roadmap of the resources, inputs, outputs, and outcomes involved in leading culture change toward greater equity at the county. Quantitative and qualitative analyses also capture and assess differences in outcomes by subgroups, factors that act as enablers of or barriers to desired outcomes, and underlying assumptions and contextual factors.
EQUITY CLIMATE SURVEY
In collaboration with World Trust LLC, we have worked with this client to develop an Equity Climate Survey to assess their organizational equity climate at the individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. This has included examining subgroup differences, internal processes, and power dynamics.
Their Climate Survey provided a cross-sectional assessment of current workplace dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, and serves as both a diagnostic tool highlighting areas for improvement and a roadmap for organizational change and future equity training.
City of Seattle, 2019-20
Constellation Rising LLC is conducting a transformative evaluation of a multi-racial learning cohort for supervisors, managers and HR advisors in local US-based city government--a first-of-its-kind anti-racism program! This has included piloting the RITES (Radical Indigenous Transformative Evaluation and Storytelling) Framework, working with a diverse Guiding Council, and conducting mixed methods Developmental Evaluation.
Both outcome and process evaluations have been conducted to capture both what is changing and why and how, centering BIPOC ways of knowing, being, seeing, and valuing. This evaluation effort has been deeply informed by the project's undergirding approach and framing by Sonali Sangeeta Balajee: Our Bodhi Project and the Bodhi Frame.
STRATEGIC PLANNING, PROCESS MAPPING, AND PARTICIPATORY YOUTH COUNCIL
This client came to Constellation Consulting LLC seeking to clarify and capture the strategic vision of their cutting-edge college and career readiness program that centers equity. We have helped this partner to capture and communicate how they improve student academic achievement and advancement into college or technical careers.
Services included executive leadership coaching, strategic visioning and planning, and transformative program evaluation. Highlights include developing a 360 evaluation tool, Environmental Scan, Gap Analysis, Conceptual Framework development, distillation of program principles and practices, and a Youth Participatory Evaluation Council (YPEC). Three high school teams of low-income and BIPOC teens learned about evaluation methods, designed and conducted novel research projects, and presented findings and recommendations to PPS leaders and staff.
King County Government
TRANSFORMATIVE EVALUATION WORKSHOP
This client approached us for consultation on how to integrate transformative evaluation, including equity-centered and anti-racist practice, into their local public governance structures. Our collaboration was brief but powerful and was led by Sonali Sangeeta Balajee.
GreeneWorks, 2018
LITERATURE REVIEW ON CHILD MARRIAGE
We supported GreeneWorks in a literature scoping review, determining if published articles, grey literature, and programmatic reports met criteria to be included in analysis of global efforts to address child marriage, linkages to poor health and life outcomes, and risk and protective factors. Services were provided in three languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
NATIVE AMERICAN ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROGRAMS
We supported the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in preparing final evaluation reports, programmatic materials, and assessment toolkits for two programs (described below) designed to address health cries among Native Americans using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
The Respecting the Circle of Life (RCL): Mind, Body Spirit program was part of the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, which focused on reducing substance use, improving reproductive health, and reducing unintended pregnancy among Native American youth. The Arrowhead Business Group (ABG) offered entrepreneurship education to protect against the interrelated risks of suicide, substance use (with a focus on Methamphetamines), and low school attachment among Native youth.
Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), 2017-18
FAMILIAS FUERTES (Click for PDF report)
Constellation Rising LLC led a qualitative assess of an family health program, "Familias Fuertes" (Strengthening Families Program) across 16 Latin American countries. The evaluation examined whether the program improved adolescent health by improving parent-teen connection and communication around difficult topics like smoking, drugs and alcohol, sex, violence, anxiety and depression, difficult emotions, and more.
Evaluation services involved conducting Key Informant Interviews in in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and analytical comparison of of intra- and international similarities and differences. A synthesis of findings were shared at a 2018 PAHO/Adolescent Health Panama City Summit.
Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS), 2015-2019
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACEs), MENTAL HEALTH & VIOLENCE (Click for publication PDF)
From the beginning, we have supported GEAS, a seminal 16-country study on early adolescents living in low-income urban and periurban areas across five continents. Dr. Naranjo-Rivera served as one of two coders who helped generated the analytical codebook for the entire study using Atlas.ti software. She also went on to research and co-author an innovative paper on the link between ACEs and depression and violence perpetration in early adolescence, as well as conduct examine the development of perspectives on gender norms in Latin America.
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH & NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Dr. Naranjo-Rivera gained experience as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF), an elite 2-year federal government leadership training program. Her work included qualitative research using NVivo software to code and analyze the NCI's health disparities research portfolio. She also helped with development, dissemination, and education for a grant mechanism/request for proposals (RFP) across to enhance funding for innovative community-designed health initiatives to reduce disparities among Native American communities. This initiative was a collaboration across 8 NIH Institutes and Centers and involved heavy coordination and multilingual services.
The Women's Collective, 2013-14
DATA NEEDS ASSESSMENT & DATA CAPTURE SYSTEMS DESIGN
We led an organizational effort to comply with federal funding requirments for Ryan White HIV/AIDs programming for underserved HIV-positive women and girls. This included conducting informational interviews with all staff and creating customized solutions using Microsoft Access and other database software to meet our partner's collective data capture, review, and reporting wish list.
ASSET MAPPING & STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF BILINGUAL COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER (CHW) PROGRAM
This client approached us for help mapping community health and education assets. We worked to produce a series of maps indentifying food/nutrition, hygiene, mental health, physical health, dental, residential care, and other health resources. We also helped to develop a strategic plan to launch a bilingual team of CHWs to address community needs and link vulnerable individuals, families, and communities to needed resources.
MINDFULNESS TEACHING & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
constellation rising llc | constellation consulting llc has worked with this client from the very beginning - and we’re happy to be their partner throughout their journey. Together, we have achieved outstanding results, and it has been a pleasure to watch their business grow.