Your Partners for Transformative Change
Training & Online Learning
C4 Innovations partners with programs, organizations, communities, and systems to develop customized, strategic learning plans that deepen knowledge and build skills. Our training approach is grounded in adult learning principles and features experiential, interactive, and ongoing activities. Our training packages are tailored to each organization’s unique skills, needs, goals, timeframe, schedule, and budget.
Our expert trainers engage your staff in interactive, inclusive environments. To do this, we:
- Create safe learning environments that respect the different experiences and backgrounds of participants
- Prioritize lived and living experience and first-hand knowledge
- Facilitate self-assessment among learners
- Provide multiple opportunities for participants to share or demonstrate their knowledge and skills
- Use a variety of teaching tools to accommodate learners with different learning styles and knowledge levels
- Provide challenging learning experiences through case examples
Transform Your Services
Every C4 partnership is fully customized. Reach out to learn more about C4’s training opportunities!
Building Knowledge and Skills
We deliver interactive online and onsite trainings that are designed to increase knowledge and improve skills. Retention is strongest when online learning is combined with onsite training and coaching. We blend online and onsite experiences and ongoing coaching to create custom training packages.
Making Change Stick
Instilling new practices often requires a sustained and multi-modal approach to learning, coaching, and troubleshooting challenges. C4 develops and supports implementation of new practices and policies using:
- Basic and intensive customized training and technical assistance
- Readiness assessments
- Facilitation and consensus building
- Strategic planning and capacity building
- Implementation support
- Organizational and staff coaching and consultation
- Evaluation design, consultation, and support
"Relevant, taught with a sense of humor, and meaningful. It gives hope to those we work with today."
Training participant
"The training was very informative and tailored to the work we do…the interaction with others in the same industry experiencing the same types of situations is always helpful."
Online course participant
"Not only did this training provide us concrete strategies, it presented compelling insights to consider. I can't thank the presenters enough for their candor and the real-life usefulness of the information presented."
Training participant
“I now have a framework to better understand what I have learnt from experience. It will allow me to communicate better and has given me a lot of insight into what I am encountering and challenges I face. This course has also made me much more aware of prioritizing self-care for myself and colleagues.”
Online course participant
Our Experts
Examples of Our Work
Addressing the Opioid Overdose Crisis in Massachusetts
The opioid overdose crisis has touched every community in Massachusetts. In response, the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership (Mosaic) funds initiatives addressing opioid overdose in communities and populations that have been historically underserved and have experienced a high rate of opioid-related overdose deaths. As part of Mosaic, C4 is providing training, technical assistance, and capacity building support to community-based and municipal grantees. For community-based grantees, C4 is supporting a wide range of technical assistance, from strategic planning to finance and operations, evaluation and data, communications and marketing, and fundraising and sustainability. For municipalities, C4 is working with a team of regional technical assistance providers to support cities and towns with planning, regional partnerships, community engagement, needs assessments, and the implementation of evidence-based opioid response strategies. Mosaic is funded by the MA Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services and powered by RIZE Massachusetts Foundation. Learn more.
Enhancing Native Behavioral Health
Holly Echo-Hawk, C4’s Tribal Behavioral Health Specialist, and other C4 staff collaborate with United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) and 7 Generations: American Indian and Alaska Native Behavioral Health Center of Excellence to produce “Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance,” a Tribal Behavioral Health ECHO webinar series. Native Psychological Brilliance refers to the intelligence, strengths, balance, innate resources, and resilience of Native people.
Starting its 4th year in 2026, each webinar in this free series provides participants an opportunity to:
- Gain skills on strength-based approaches in partnership with Native People to enhance Native behavioral health
- Discuss ways that Native brilliance is demonstrated and supports behavioral health
- Learn about Native brilliance examples to share with behavioral health and other health care staff as well as local Tribal Nation citizens
- Experience Native music videos and spoken word performances
The series is open to Tribal Nation health directors, clinic staff, counselors, social workers, physicians, nurses, Tribal Epidemiology Center staff, and anyone supporting Tribal Nation citizens with health and behavioral health. In 2025, over 1,500 attendees participated from 117 hospitals, health clinics, and treatment centers, 99 Native organizations, 84 schools and universities, 52 federal and state partner organizations, and all 12 of the Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
To watch previous sessions, visit USET’s YouTube channel. For more information and to join future webinars, visit United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.