Our Expertise

People experiencing substance use, mental health issues, trauma, or housing instability often face obstacles to receiving equitable, quality care. We know how to minimize these obstacles to support lasting change for people who are marginalized. Many of our staff have lived experience that informs and enriches our work.

Our team brings deep expertise in assessing and meeting the needs of marginalized people across the lifespan–from the earliest developmental years to transition-age youth and adulthood. Drawing from a diverse pool of subject matter experts, trainers, technical assistance specialists, clinicians, researchers, and evaluators, C4 Innovations provides training, technical assistance, consultation, and evaluation services in the following areas.

C4 Innovations centers people in everything we do, and we work with our clients to do the same. We prioritize the specific needs, concerns, and strengths of individuals to improve care and lives. We can support your organization to strengthen your approach to:

• Person-centered care
• Outreach and engagement strategies
• Case management models
• Motivational interviewing skills
• Shared decision making
• Approaches to integrating and valuing lived experience

Experiences of trauma are especially common among marginalized populations and can affect physical and mental health. Health, behavioral health, and other human service programs can improve care by understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of trauma. C4 Innovations can help you improve your understanding of:

• Knowledge of trauma
• Neuroscience of trauma
• Service design and delivery
• Trauma-informed care
• Implementation of best practices
• Organizational assessment
• Trauma-informed policies and procedures

A stable home promotes health and well-being for individuals, families, children, and youth. When people become homeless, housing is essential, but often insufficient to secure long-term stability. Services matter. For many, having a stable home remains out of reach. C4 Innovations helps programs and communities respond to homelessness and housing instability by:

• Integrating housing and essential services
• Providing services and supports targeted to individuals, families, children, and youth
• Supporting re-integration into community life
• Utilizing community-based care
• Understanding the impact of racism and discrimination on homeless service systems and the people they serve
• Designing and implementing, inclusive, equitable, housing-focused solutions

Many people experience mental health and substance use challenges. People can and do recover — and recovery is possible for everyone. C4 Innovations advances recovery-oriented services and supports nationally. Our expertise can improve your practice and capacity in:

• Assessing mental health conditions
• Managing co-occurring disorders
• Adopting best practices in recovery-oriented care
• Providing supported employment programs
• Establishing roles, competencies, supervision, and supports for peer workers
• Responding to opioid use, including overdose prevention
• Using medication-assisted recovery and medication-assisted treatment
• Integrating harm reduction approaches
• Advancing recovery-oriented supports, services, systems, and communities
• Supporting quality recovery housing
• Creating and delivering prevention, early intervention, and recovery supports for youth and young adults
• Supporting families of people in or seeking recovery
• Promoting the resilience of children and youth
• Supporting parents in recovery
• Implementing integrated behavioral health and primary care strategies

Learn more about our training and technical assistance and consulting services.