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Services

Following is a listing of services provided by Susan K. Flinn Consulting. Click any of these four headings to jump to that section: Project Management, Materials Production, Meeting Management, or Training & Skills Development

 

Project Management

Susan K. Flinn provides staffing for short- and long-term projects. These services are particularly useful for organizations that have a specific project to complete, but that do not want to bring a staff person in-house for reasons such as cost or the strain on the company infrastructure.

Projects include:

  • Administering a City-wide social marketing and public education campaign to encourage adolescent HIV testing, for Children’s National Medical Center
  • Organizing strategic planning efforts to expand school-based health care across Maryland, for the Governor’s Office on Children, Youth and Families
  • Overseeing development activities including grants, special events, donor appeals, and database management, for Metro TeenAIDS
  • Providing logistical support to the Board of Directors and Executive Director, for the D.C. Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA)
  • Researching variations in Fiscal Intermediary coverage of 25 cancer drugs and summarizing this information for use by clients in advocating coverage expansion, for Nimitt Consulting, Inc.

Project Management clients include:

  • Children’s National Medical Center, Burgess Clinic
  • D.C. Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA)
  • The Maryland Governor’s Office on Children, Youth and Families
  • Metro TeenAIDS
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Nimitt Consulting, Inc.

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Ms. Flinn provides program oversight services for a variety of non-profit clients who need help in multiple areas. Imagine something between a Girl Friday and an eminence gris, and you’re on the right track. It’s hard to characterize these activities, but a few examples are provided below:

  • Metro TeenAIDS

    Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) is a small, DC-based organization that works to prevent adolescent HIV/AIDS in a city with the highest rates of infection in the country. Susan Flinn provides a number of development- and communications-related services for the organization to help support its programs. Primarily, she helps raise the organization’s $2 million budget by coordinating grant writing and reporting activities. Susan manages a stable of six consultants who research funding opportunities, create grant proposals, and draft reports for foundations and governmental agencies. She also edits the organization’s newsletter, Outreach, and manages the writers and graphic designers who work on this publication. Susan helps plan and host MTA’s fundraising events and works with the organization’s event staff to ensure that each occasion reaches its goals. These activities raise critical funds to support the organization; communicate MTA’s successes to donors; and comply with government regulations. In fiscal year 2010, MTA raised 78% of its operating budget in the first quarter of the year.

  • DC Alliance of Youth Advocates

    The DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA) is a new coalition of organizations working to promote healthy adolescent development in Washington, DC. Susan Flinn provided a number of organizational services for the group to help get its work off the ground. When Susan started working with DCAYA, there was no staff and all of the group’s advocacy work was being done by the organization’s talented (but overworked) Board of Directors. Susan helped schedule Board and Executive Committee meetings and provided minutes and assignments for attendants. She updated DCAYA’s member records, email system, and calendar; and helped coordinate the group’s monthly membership meetings. When the first Executive Director was hired, Susan helped backstop the new staff by scheduling committee meetings, helping plan a variety of events, and coordinating production of documents. Eventually, DCAYA brought on a full-time program associate to do this work. These activities helped the Board and new staff work more effectively as the organization transitioned from a start-up to an effective advocate for youth development programs and policies in Washington, DC.

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Materials Production

Susan K. Flinn writes and edits materials for readers of all backgrounds. As a writer, she drafts documents for general audiences, public health practitioners, and policymakers. Her work has been published by Federal agencies, advocacy organizations, and public health associations. As an editor, Ms. Flinn works with authors to make their work as good as it can be, respecting their creation, but providing any suggestions or additions to make the final product more perfect. She has edited documents for both national and international non-profit and advocacy organizations.

Projects include:

  • Serving as the writer for several projects at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), including the report from the Visions 2020 Future of Pediatrics Task Force; the Clinical Report on Implementing a Transition Plan to a Medical Home, and the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Type II Diabetes.
  • Editing and laying out the bi-monthly National Women’s Health Network newsletter, The Women’s Health Activist
  • Writing a report on the HIV/AIDS epidemic’s impact on communities of color, for HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau
  • Serving as language editor for a document on the key problems facing the Sudan and potential policy solutions for creating a sustainable peace in that country, for the Hague’s Clingendael Institute
  • Editing program outcome reports for projects funded by USAID to enhance women’s opportunities in international communities, for the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  • Creating a monograph on the use of manual vacuum aspiration in international communities that face barriers to abortion access, for Ipas
  • Writing a column on sexual and reproductive health for junior high school students, for Scholastic Magazines
  • Drafting Writing a tool-kit on using community organizing, media outreach and other strategies to enhance public health, for the Academy for Educational Development (AED)
  • Editing a curriculum to train health workers to serve as facilitators in community advocacy efforts, for the CATALYST Consortium
  • Editing and overseeing production of the Metro TeenAIDS newsletter, Outreach
  • Drafting a cognitive-behavior therapy self-help book, for Dr. Lightman of POWER Optimism
  • Writing an overview on using the S-CHIP program to improve adolescent health outcomes, for the Annenburg School of Communication and Open Society Institute
  • Editing reports on using collaborations between government, business, and labor to foster workplace responses to HIV/AIDS, for AED
  • Creating materials to aid communities to build linkages between AIDS Service Organizations and other health care providers, for the Coalition Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) Coalition
  • Editing a compilation of essays on Hillary Clinton, entitled “Speaking of Hillary: A Readers’ Guide to the Most Controversial Woman in America” (White Cloud Press, 2000)

Materials Production clients include:

  • The Academy for Educational Development (AED)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
  • The Annenburg School of Communication and Open Society Institute
  • Association of Women’s Health and Obstetric Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
  • The CATALYST Consortium
  • Clingendael Institute (The Hague)
  • The Coalition Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) Coalition
  • Conservation International
  • HCDI
  • The Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau
  • Heroine Magazine
  • High Noon Communications
  • Impact Communications + Marketing
  • The International Center for Research on Women
  • Ipas
  • Medical Report on Outcomes Research
  • Metro TeenAIDS
  • National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO)
  • National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC)
  • National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)
  • The National Women’s Health Network (NHWN)
  • Nimitt Consulting, Inc.
  • POWER Optimism
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • The Report on Medical Guidelines and Outcomes Research
  • Scholastic, Inc.
  • University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy
  • Voters for Choice
  • White Cloud Press

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Meeting Management

Susan K. Flinn helps organizations hold effective meetings, and ensure that meeting outcomes are not lost after the fact. She plans meeting agendas and coordinates logistics; provides reports and summaries of conference proceedings; and acts as a Review Administrator and recorder for Federal Objective Grant Reviews.

Projects include:

  • Attending grantee meetings and producing summary reports for the HRSA Office on Women’s Health and its programs, including Innovative Approaches to Promoting Women's Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s prenatal depression prevention program
  • Creating meeting minutes for the public meetings of the Division of Transplantation’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) (http://organdonor.gov/research/acot.htm)
  • Coordinating twice-yearly meetings of the Provider Roundtable, a group of hospital financial and compliance staff who meet to draft comments on the Center for Medicaid and Medicare’s (CMS) Outpatient Prospective Payment System (http://www.nimitt.com/resources/roundtable/index.htm)
  • Staffing grantee, task force, and other meetings held by Federal agencies including the Division of Independent Review (DIR); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB); the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB); and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Planning three-day meetings twice a year for the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers (ADCC) to discuss billing, coding and Medicare compliance, for Nimitt Consulting, Inc.
  • Conducting Congressional briefings on adolescent health and public policy, for the National Assembly on School Based Health Care and Advocates for Youth.
  • Creating meeting minutes for the public meetings of the Division of Transplantation's Advisory Committee on Blood and Stem Cell Transplantation (ACBSCT)

Meeting Management clients include:

  • Advocates for Youth
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National HIV Prevention Conference
  • Conservation International
  • DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA)
  • The Division of Transplantation’s Advisory Committee on Blood and Stem Cell Transplantation (ACBSCT)
  • The Division of Transplantation’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT)
  • Enlaces America
  • The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Division of Independent Review (DIR)
  • The HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
  • The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
  • Metro TeenAIDS
  • The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
  • Nimitt Consulting, Inc.
  • The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Palladian Partners
  • Professional and Scientific Associates (PSA)

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Training & Skills Development

Susan K. Flinn conceives, designs and conducts presentations and trainings on health promotion, community organizing, and overcoming controversy.

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Training & Skills Development Clients include:

  • The AIDS Policy Center for Children, Youth and Families (now AIDS Alliance)
  • Edutech, Inc.
  • The Maryland Center for Maternal and Child Health, a division of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  • The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
  • The National Conference of State Legislators’ Adolescent Health Task Force

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