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Consultation to Achieve Client Goals

Solution-Focused Consulting

Robert Surber works to support health and human service organizations to clarify and pursue their goals and to develop effective strategies to prioritize and implement services that achieve their goals. This is done through fostering strong and positive relationships throughout the organization, within a process that clarifies and supports the organizaiton's mission and values. Strategic planning, organizational development, funding development, and program implementation activities are designed to build upon the strengths, traditions, culture, and historical context of the organization.

Robert Surber is a professional social worker with over 35 years of mental health, substance abuse, and human services experience with adults, children, and the elderly, including 20 years of management experience, and 12 years of independent consulting. Mr. Surber considers his work as advocacy for undeserved populations that promotes full community functioning and recovery by supporting the goals and dreams of consumers and their families.

US Consultation and Training Activities Include:

  • Funding Development and Proposal Preparation
  • Organizational Assessment and Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Program Design and Implementation
  • Service System integration
  • Staff Training and Development
  • Board of Directors Development
  • Outcome Evaluation

Robert Surber has provided paid consulting and training services to the following organizations in the United States since 1995. (See International Services page for international organizations served.)

  • San Diego County Mental Health Services Administration, San Diego, California
  • Mental Health Systems Inc., San Diego, California
  • Community Research Foundation, San Diego, California
  • Alpha Behavioral Health Services, San Diego, California
  • Washington D.C., Mental Health Commission, Washington, D.C.
  • Gates Recovery Foundation, Placerville, California
  • Bay Area Young Positives, San Francisco, California
  • Mayor's Youth Employment & Education Program (MYEEP), San Francisco, California
  • Mayor's Office of Community Development, San Francisco, California
  • One East Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, California
  • Southeast Youth Consortium, San Francisco, California
  • Housing Conservation & Development Corporation, San Francisco, California
  • Golden Gate Regional Center, San Francisco, California
  • Young Community Developers, San Francisco, California
  • Northern California Service League, San Francisco, California
  • Community Youth Center, San Francisco, California
  • Visitacion Valley Jobs, Education & Training, San Francisco, California
  • Sunset Youth Center, San Francisco, California
  • Network for Elders, San Francisco, California
  • Chinese Newcomer Services, San Francisco, California
  • Eden Psychiatric Services, San Leandro, California
  • Protection and Advocacy Inc., Oakland, California
  • San Francisco Residential Care Association, San Francisco, California
  • Peers Envisioning and Engaging Recovery (PEERS), Oakland, California
  • Parents Helping Parents, San Francisco, California
  • NICOS Chinese Health Coalition, San Francisco, California
  • National Community Development Institute, Oakland California
  • Westside Mental Health Center, San Francisco California
  • RAMS (Richmond Area Multi-Services), San Francisco, California
  • Bayview-Hunter's Point Foundation, San Francisco, California
  • National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter, Sacramento, California
  • Family Service Agency, San Francisco California
  • Family Mosaic Program, San Francisco, California
  • Walden House, San Francisco, California
  • Conard House, San Francisco, California
  • Mental Health Association of San Francisco
  • St. Paulus Lutheran Church, San Francisco, California
  • University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco California
  • San Francisco Department of Human Services, San Francisco California
  • San Francisco Department of Mental Health Services, San Francisco, California
  • San Francisco Community Substance Abuse Services, San Francisco, California
  • Pleasant Street Hayes Home, San Francisco, California
  • Berkeley Mental Health Services, Berkeley, California
  • Community Housing Partnership, San Francisco, California
  • Kaiser Permanente, Oakland California
  • Diamond Lodge, San Francisco, CA
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing, Oakland, California
  • Sonoma County Mental Health, Santa Rosa, California
  • Alameda County Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Oakland, California
  • JFK University, Orinda, California
  • Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS), Oakland, California
  • Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Wisconsin
  • Center for Community Change, Trinity College of Vermont
  • University of California Berkeley, Extension, Berkeley, California
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Supplemental Rate Residential Care Providers, San Francisco California
  • Page Street Residential Care, San Francisco California
  • Veteran's Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California
  • California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
  • Visionary Healthcare, Danbury Connecticut
  • Marin County Mental Health Services, San Rafael, California
  • GSC Home Study Courses, Sacramento California
  • Fort Miley Veteran's Administration Hospital, San Francisco, California
  • Telecare Corporation, STRIDES Program, Oakland, California
  • Janssen Pharmaceutica, San Jose, California
  • Pendergrass and Associates, San Francisco California
  • Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board, San Francisco, California
  • University of California Davis Extension, Davis, California
  • Imperial County Department of Mental Health Services, El Centro, California
  • Fresno County Department of Health and Human Services, Fresno, California
  • Alameda County Department of Social Services, Oakland, California
  • Trinity County Health and Human Services Department, Weaverville, California
  • Shasta County Department of Social Services, Redding, California
  • Yuba County Department of Social Services, Marysville, California

  • Detail of services provided and references are available upon request

For more information send an e-mail to Robert Surber at: RWS@RobertSurber.com

In San Francisco:

Robert W. Surber
PO Box 347471
San Francisco, CA 94134

Telephone: 415.595.0668
 

In Hawaii:

Robert Surber & Associates
PO Box 422
Honomu, HI 96728

Telephone: 808.963.5181
 

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