HINS APPROACH TO STRATEGIC PROGRAM PLANNING, STRATEGIC PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION, AND STRATEGIC PROGRAM EVALUATION ENSURES COMPLIANCES AND DOCUMENTATION

HINS Program Professionals have developed, pilot-tested, and perfected a series of strategic program methodologies in which the planning stages goes far beyond the 'focus group approach' to meet the needs of our clients.  Our experiences indicated that most people in focus group tend to approach the task by using the part of their brains that controls intelligence, (the cerebral cortexes), with little or no emotion or instincts investments.

   Our programming approaches utilize a strategic planning system (SPS) that stimulates the 'reptilian' portions of the brain, which are reputed to be hard-wired to initiate and sustain excitements, survival, emotion, instincts, and affability. Our SPS explores the conscious and unconscious meaning people assign and how they relate to a particular behavior, product, service, or relationship. In this process, our system:

• not only investigates what our clients' desire as their end product, but also the wants, likes, and dislikes of their clients.
• incorporates a 'buy-in' process that creates awareness, and ensures program success between our clients and the people they cater for, right from the planning stage.
• utilizes various scientific methods to collect needs assessment information from various samples of those who will use the program (the audience/benefactors), the services to be provided (program/project/service) and other stake holders in such services (ground staff, community leaders, and other providers of similar services).

   Combining our findings at the planning stage with existing secondary data, we employ our SPS to develop implementation, evaluation, compliance, and/or documentation protocol as per our clients' specifications.

   Our staff experiences include:

• teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in needs assessments, program planning, program evaluation, and grant writing at universities in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Illinois
• conducting needs assessment of unwed African-American teen fathers;
• assessing health needs of Amish and Mennonite communities;
• community needs assessment of Somalia refugee;
• training of trainers in Thailand,
• evaluation project for Minority Health Commission;
• adolescent fertility management training/workshop in Illinois;
• capacity development for HIV/AIDS community programs for the Ohio Department of Health;
• on-site technical assistance in reproductive health and status of women enhancement programs in
  -  Benin
  -  Botswana
  -  Congo
  -  Ethiopia
  -  Ghana
  -  Kenya
  -  Madagascar
  -  Nigeria
  -  Uganda
  -  Zambia and
  -  Zimbabwe

   Depending on your requirements, our proposals will include a plan of implementation, evaluation, budget, compliance and documentation mechanism to meet grantors' requirements for either future grant proposal or/and end of program report. We can also provide trained staff and technical support, as required.

   Our affordable rates are set to support non-profit and low-budget organizations. Site visits, where required, can be organized within five working days.