Assessments, grants, workshops, and data experiences delivered across Kansas. Click any project to see what it involved, what it found, and where to dig deeper.
Public health and beyond. Click through for the full story on each.
A county-wide community health needs assessment, delivered not as a static report but as a public, interactive website.
View project →An in-person data walk that turned food-access data into something people could physically walk through.
View project →A grant that secured close to $200,000 to expand one-to-one youth mentorship across Kansas.
View project →A hands-on workshop teaching nonprofits to turn public data into fundable applications.
View project →A training needs assessment for the state courts: public-health methods applied well beyond public health.
View project →Assessment, mapping, evaluation, a data walk, or a grant. Tell me what you’re working on and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit.
The 2025 Reno County Community Health Needs Assessment is a full look at the conditions shaping local health, delivered as a public, interactive website rather than a PDF that sits in a drawer. Conducted on a three-year cycle, it meets accreditation standards for the Reno County Health Department and Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System, and doubles as a roadmap for targeted action.
The interactive site lets anyone explore mapped data by zip code and census tract, compare trends across years, hear community voices from the qualitative data, and download the full report.
A data walk in Reno County that put real stories behind the numbers, letting people physically move through maps, infographics, and interactive displays about food access and insecurity in their own community. The goal was simple: make data tangible.
This one is personal. I grew up food insecure, so I think constantly about the people behind the numbers. A data walk makes that visible: someone points at a map and says ‘that’s my street,’ or ‘that’s where I grew up,’ and the data stops being abstract.
We wrote a grant that helped secure close to $200,000 for Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters to expand their Bigs in Blue program, which pairs law-enforcement officers with at-risk youth in one-to-one mentorship.
A ‘Data That Wins Grants’ workshop delivered to the Hutchinson Community Foundation and a cohort of Reno County organizations, teaching nonprofit and coalition staff how to find, interpret, and present public data to make their grant applications more competitive.
A training needs assessment for the Kansas Judicial Branch’s New Judge Orientation program, applying the same survey and analysis methods I use in public health to a very different sector: the courts.
It is a good example of the practice traveling: the methods that map a county’s health work just as well on an organization’s training needs.