Needs Assessment
Valerie works with clients to assess their current operating environment to identify and prioritize key issues, identify service gaps and redundancies in local markets; develop goals and objectives and to formalize their internal theories of change. The results of the needs assessments may be included in grant proposals; used to serve as the basis for program logic models; provide support for program evaluation planning; used to develop or enhance new programs and services or serve as a basis to terminate programs and services.
Here is one of the models Valerie uses to help clients develop their individualized theories of change.
Valerie F. Leonard Theory of Change

