State & Local Governments

Key Process Points: Assess > Plan > Activate > Measure

State and local governments are tasked with balancing the competing needs of all individuals within their jurisdictions. Canavan works with government leaders, constituents, and their departments to assess, reimagine and effectuate measurable change within your human service systems that align with your community’s goals. 

• Facilitating Disaster Preparedness and Planning/Post-Event Management

• Assessing and reimagining a human service system that brings greater wellbeing to all constituents

• Working to balance the needs of homeless individuals with public complaints in relation to new no-camping ordinances

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Homelessness Response Systems

Homeless Response Systems must balance constraints on funding, staff and other resources with the high needs of their vulnerable populations in order to coordinate complex service demands. Canavan works with Homeless Response Systems to assess and redesign both high level and and procedural systems pathways, always with the ultimate goal of accelerating placements into housing. ​

• Planning and executing humane encampment resolution through HCC

• Facilitating collaborative partnerships with stakeholder at the state and local levels or in the hospitals, justice system or public health teams

• Helping administration and staff understand and reimagine the homeless response system

Philanthropies & Nonprofits

Key Process Points: Assess > Plan > Activate > Measure

Philanthropies and Nonprofit must balance the need to execute their mission for their clients with the logistics of continuous development, volunteer management, and regulatory compliance. With expertise in program design, resource allocation, and centering client experience, Canavan helps organizations assess their current systems and realign with their current goals. 

• Streamlining funding and resources to support programmatic goals

• Planning and executing the administration of grants

• Fully reimagining and redesigning your programs in collaboration with your key partners 

Public Health, Hospital & Justice Systems

Key Process Points: Assess > Plan > Activate > Measure

Public Health Teams, Hospitals, Justice systems, Libraries and Public transit often serve as important points of access for people experiencing homelessness within the community. As key partners to ending homelessness, we can help your team create and sustain meaningful partnerships with the homeless system, assess your role, resources and unique skills in helping vulnerable individuals more efficiently access services, and stabilize public spaces for the whole community. 

• Coordinating discharges from a prison system to a shelter

• Reconfiguring a system to design pathways for unsheltered patients to be housed directly from Emergency rooms

• Advising Public Health departments during shelter-wide infectious disease outbreaks to create effective and executable policies