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Embedded Staffing
Right now, many recovery, behavioral health, housing, and homelessness agencies are being asked to do more with less while operating during a time of funding uncertainty and rising demand for services. C4’s embedded staffing solutions can help fill key staffing gaps and provide immediate, part-time capacity and stability.
With this flexible, interim staffing solution, you can quickly add part-time staffing capacity for a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. Fractional support roles also minimize recruitment and onboarding delays. As part of our embedded staffing engagements, C4 will support you to plan and build long-term internal capacity within your organization.
C4’s expert staff are available to support:
- Program development and management from start-up through implementation including:
- Hiring, onboarding, and supervision of program staff, including peers
- Writing or updating agency and program policies and procedures
- Agency and program data reporting
- Program evaluation and goal setting
- Team and leadership development
- Communications and marketing
- Operations infrastructure and capacity building
- Grant writing and sustainability planning
- Board development and engagement
- Partnership, community, and network development
- New Continuum of Care/Emergency Shelter Grant program start up
- Integration of recovery-oriented principles, practices, and supports
- Organizational culture to assess, nurture, and sustain strong, healthy mission-driven teams
- Executive leadership for expertise in building teams, developing leaders, managing conflict, navigating crises, and other key functions of healthy organizations
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Every C4 partnership is fully customized. Reach out to learn more about C4’s embedded staffing resources!
Why consider the C4 team?
Our team brings real world experience in housing, recovery, and behavioral health organizations and systems. This includes experience developing and managing recovery-oriented organizations and systems, including peer-led programs and community-based nonprofit organizations; managing and evaluating the implementation of recovery programs; and delivering peer-based and other recovery supports to youth, adults, and family members. Our team also includes certified peer support professionals and seasoned peer supervisors. Our housing experts have managed homeless response systems, including diversion programs and housing problem solving, coordinated entry, street outreach, shelters, rapid rehousing, and permanent supportive housing. We have also worked extensively with Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) leadership.
“C4 facilitated a comprehensive and rigorous investigation that helped us identify our most critical strategic issues at an inflection point in the growth of our organization. They guided our development of a new strategic plan to resolve these issues and set goals, objectives, and action steps to implement it along with metrics to measure progress. In other words, we learned not only what we need to do going forward, but also how to do it."
Bill Greer, Board President, SMART Recovery USA
"I appreciate the creative collaboration and the flexibility offered by the C4 team. Our initiative was able to meet all of our goals and timelines."
Community Partner
Why consider Embedded Staffing?
Organizations may find it beneficial to contract with external professionals in different ways. This commonly includes project-based contracting or contracting with an embedded staff member on a fractional basis.
- Project-based Contracts: Scope is time-limited and defined upfront in response to a specific set of organizational objectives. Consultants remain external to the organization, providing observations, knowledge, and other deliverables or resources.
- Embedded (Fractional) Staff Contracts: Scope is flexible and built around key functions. Team member(s) can integrate more directly into internal day-to-day operations as needed, allowing them to provide direct support and/or supervision and engage in implementing long-term strategic goals.
How are Embedded Staffing contracts structured?
Typically, embedded staffing contracts are structured to be at least six months long, with staff assignments ranging from 4-16 hours (half-day to two days) per week. Organizations could choose to contract with one or more professional roles, spanning mid-level to senior staff, managers, and executives. Embedded staffing pricing varies by the level of professional roles and assigned team members.
C4’s experts are generally available to support embedded staffing engagements on a virtual basis. Costs for periodic onsite travel can be incorporated into pricing if needed.