Our Projects

Choctaw Nation

Teach 2 Reach Capstone Professional Development Day Facilitation

Facilitated STREAMing Culture and Resilience in the Classroom for nineteen (19) new teachers who had completed the Teach 2 Reach project. In collaboration with Northeastern State University, ICI oversaw a Makers Fair where participants explored three stations with technology and lesson plans utilizing the technology followed by Dr. Fuller demonstrating how these technologies and lesson plans may be utilized in the classroom.

ICIs Professional Development Speed Dating lunchtime activity allowed participants to move from station to station in 3-minute intervals and discuss what they learned in the morning sessions, what excites them about teaching, what fears they have about their first day of teaching.

ICI facilitated a STREAM-based resilience session with the participants. Each participant completed a STREAM-based resilience lesson plan to take with them at the end of the day. ICI created and disseminated STREAM Toolkits which contained low-tech to high-tech items for use by each participant as they launch their teaching careers.

Choctaw Nation

Office of Indian Education Pehlichi Project

Provided professional project evaluation including the provision of contractual meeting facilitation, data collection and analysis, and writing services.

ICI provided project staff with appropriate data gathering tools and staff training to ensure federal grant measures were accurately reported and properly documented with applicable supporting data. Data was gathered, analyzed, and reported on a semi-annual basis to all stakeholders and grantors.

ICI reviewed data throughout the grant period to identify potential issues or challenges in a timely manner to ensure measures are met before reporting deadlines.

ICI provided annual collective impact reports during the grant period to communicate the objective and subjective project highlights geared to a cross-section of stakeholders.

ICI also provided the Choctaw Nation internal grant management team with detailed summaries to explain the project outcomes and how to identify the supporting documentation.

Choctaw Nation

Office of Indian Education RISE Project

Provided professional project evaluation including the provision of contractual meeting facilitation, data collection and analysis, and writing services. The RISE project completed its planning phase and is currently providing services within the first year of implementation.

ICI professionals provided guidance on performance measure development and also on data gathering methodologies. ICI provided project staff with appropriate data gathering tools and staff training to ensure federal grant measures would be accurately reported while gathering applicable supporting data.

Additionally, ICI developed the Parent Choice Survey instrument and continues to gather information from parents within the target demographic.

As the data gathering and analysis process is in its infancy, ICI continuously monitors the process and modifies procedures to support staff data collection techniques. Data is being gathered, analyzed, and will be reported on a semi-annual basis to all stakeholders and grantors.

ICI developed the annual collective impact report to prepare for the first year’s outcomes.

Choctaw Nation Department of Education NACTEP STEM Project

Provided presentation on mindfulness and resilience practices to enhance classroom experiences – no matter what the classroom may look like in 2021 and beyond. The career development educators serving middle school, high school, technology center, and college students received practical exercises, tested over ten years with thousands of students. They also received some basic trauma-informed neuroscientific background on how these exercises helped students identify and support their own resilience and stay open to learning despite a variety of challenges. Participants learned how they can use resilience/mindfulness as part of their own self-care as they face the challenges in their classrooms.

Provided professional project evaluation including the provision of contractual meeting facilitation, data collection and analysis, and writing services. ICI provided project staff with appropriate data gathering tools and staff training to ensure federal grant measures were accurately reported and properly documented with applicable supporting data. Data was gathered, analyzed, and reported on a semi-annual basis to all stakeholders and grantors. ICI reviewed data throughout the grant period to identify potential issues or challenges in a timely manner to ensure measures are were met before reporting deadlines. ICI provided annual collective impact reports during the grant period to communicate the objective and subjective project highlights geared to a cross-section of stakeholders. ICI also prepared and submitted annual “Outside Evaluator” reports required by the grantor to reflect outcomes not specifically addressed by the project performance measures and governmental reporting requirements. The grant is in its final year.

Choctaw Nation

Office of Minority Health National Workforce Diversity Pipeline (NWDP) PATHS: Pipeline for Advanced Training in Health Sciences Project

Provided professional project evaluation including data aggregation, collection, and analysis for final performance reporting preparation. ICI provided project director consultation, data aggregation, analysis, and data gathering tools during the last year of the project. The measures for the project were already established before ICI joined the project team, so ICI worked closely with staff to determine gaps and data gathering remediation methods prior to the final grant report. ICI supported the entry and confirmation of data for the closeout report. ICI also provided the Choctaw Nation internal grant management team with detailed summaries to explain the project outcomes and how to identify the supporting documentation.

Washington County Child Care Foundation

Prepared Office of Head Start Grant applications.

Washington County Wellness Initiative

Facilitated monthly Executive Committee meetings and Workgroup Wednesday meetings. Coordinated volunteer services and projects. Provided summer camp, in collaboration with Camp Fire Green Country, for youth impacted by substance misuse and abuse. Provided Resilience Train-the-Trainer sessions to local educators, child care providers, mental health professionals, and community volunteers.

Washington County Wellness Initiative Strategic Prevention Framework

Partnership for Success through the Cherokee Nation

Provided administrative project oversight, project coordination, training, project documentation, event planning, marketing, prevention activities, facilitation, policies and procedures, evaluation, strategic planning, logic model development, community assessment, sustainability planning, project impact analysis, and serving as the primary contact for financial oversight of the project.

Worked with Technical Assistance provider to design, develop, distribute, and collect responses from local youth regarding risky behaviors. Facilitated two focus groups with high-school youth to learn the “truth” about underage drinking and the misuse of prescription drugs.

Designed, developed, distributed, and collected surveys for pharmacists and law enforcement. All data will be used to strengthen the logic models and strategic plan.

Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Threshold of Transformation: Strategic Vision for Victim Safety – State of Oklahoma

Provided a statewide needs assessment and strategic plan for the provision of domestic violence and sexual assault services in compliance with the Administration for Children and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau’s Division of Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPSA Program) requirements and in collaboration with the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General Victim Services Unit, Oklahoma District Attorneys Council, and the Native Alliance Against Violence.

Choctaw Nation’s Indian Education Demonstration Grants Program

Native Youth Community Project

Provided professional project evaluation services for the Native Youth Community Project (NYCP), CFDA 84.299A including the provision of contractual meeting facilitation, data collection and analysis, and writing services.

Native Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Directory of Services

Provided data collection and preliminary analysis for the NIWRC grant project to populate the nation’s first online/interactive resource guide for Native American and Alaska Native victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States. Coordinated data gathering, reviewed status, and database for monitoring of progress. Designed and developed a data gathering system. Currently collecting data from all interpersonal violence service providers with specialized services to meet Native American needs. Data will be implemented into a 24-Hour Federal hotline.

Osage County Sheriff’s Office

Victims of Crime Act Grant

Provided administrative project oversight, project coordination, project documentation, marketing, facilitation, training material preparations, victim awareness packets, and served as data assessment coordinator for determination of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking needs.

California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA)

DoJ Building Refuge in Detention through Governance and Engagement (BRIDGE) Project

Choctaw Nation’s Strategic Planning for Tribal Justice System

Provided administrative project oversight in collaboration with Choctaw Nation coordinator and staff, project coordination, project documentation, facilitation, data gathering tools with Choctaw IRB approval, and serving as the developers of the strategic plan for the “future” Tribal Justice System. Designed, developed, and collected over 1100 Tribal Justice Assessments. Data was gathered, analyzed, and prepared to report findings to the team in order to build a logic model and strategic plan.

Washington County Wellness Initiative HRSA’s Rural Health Network Grant

Provided administrative project oversight, project coordination, training, project documentation, event planning, marketing, facilitation, policies and procedures for HRSA submissions and approvals, strategic planning, community assessment, sustainability planning, “On-Board Manual” for board members, post-project documentation, and served as the primary contact for financial oversight of the project. Designed, developed, distributed, and collected over 1000 Washington County Community Assessments. Data was gathered, analyzed, and reported to team and community partners.

Operation Tri-County Triumph

Nowata, Osage and Washington OVW Grant

Provided administrative project oversight, project coordination, project documentation, marketing, facilitation, training material preparations, victim awareness packets, and served as data assessment coordinator for determination of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking needs.

Our Projects

Delaware Child Development Center
Prepared Office of Head Start Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grant application.

John’s Farm
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Value-Added Producer Grants, Oklahoma Agriculture Enhancement and Diversification Program; Farm Diversification Grant (4 grants written and submitted; all four funded).

Town of Oologah
Weekly grant research, drafted and submitted four grant applications (two were funded) to support the building of the Oologah Community Center and Media library. Assisted in the creation of 501(c)(3) to support future fund-raising activities.

Public Health Institute of Oklahoma
Coordinated strategic visioning for 2016-2017 Board of Directors and facilitated dynamic guided visioning session to develop its Strategic Plan

Fellowship Congregational Church
United Church of Christ: coordinated strategic planning for 2016-2017 church leadership team and facilitated dynamic guided visioning session to develop its Strategic Plan

Green Country Camp Fire
Coordinated Strategic Planning for 2016-2017 Board of Directors and facilitated dynamic guided visioning session to develop its Strategic Plan.

Mutual Girl’s Club
Coordinated strategic planning for 2016 Board of Directors and facilitated dynamic guided visioning session to develop its Strategic Plan.

District Attorneys Council/Wings of Hope
Contract with the District Attorneys Council and Wings of Hope to facilitate and document six regional focus groups with sexual assault victims and survivors supported by the ARREST grant.

Wings of Hope
Facilitated the SWOT analysis session to better position the team to develop its Strategic Plan (2012)

Family Crisis and Counseling Center
Facilitated “Diamond Exchange” ™ Team Strengthening Session with staff during an annual staff retreat

Family Healthcare Clinic, Inc.
Facilitated “Diamond Exchange” ™ Team Strengthening Session with staff and Board. Assessed status of the organization and provided plan of improvement.

Oklahoma State University
Facilitated “Diamond Exchange” ™ Team Strengthening Session with over 75 staff members during their bi-annual professional development session

Seeking Sitters
Facilitated “Diamond Exchange” ™ Team Strengthening Session with staff during annual staff retreat