Protecting, Connecting, and Thriving: We are all Public Health
By Courtney Chapple, Consulting Manager Happy National Public Health Week! From April 1 – 7, RDA joins the American Public Health Association (APHA) in recognizing and celebrating public health. As we celebrate National Public Health Week, we take a moment to look back at the partnerships that we have established and the project work that…
Participative Budgeting and Profit Sharing– An Update on RDA’s EOT
by John Cervetto, Chief Operating Officer As RDA Consulting begins 2024, we both mark one year since RDA transitioned from a privately-owned business to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) and forty years since the founding of RDA in 1984. Our first year as an employee-owned business has been defined by developing new processes and practices…
RDA Consulting at 40
2024 is a significant year for RDA Consulting. As we plan for the future, we also are reflecting back to our founding forty years ago in 1984 by Robert (Bob) Bennett. Then, as now, Bennett launched Resource Development Associates (as RDA was then known) with the intention of impacting systems and the communities that they…
World AIDS Day: Remember and Commit
by Courtney Davis, Consulting Manager Friday, December 1, 2023, marks the 35th annual World AIDS Day. Since the emergence of the HIV virus and the first official case reporting of AIDS in 1981, more than 35 million people have died from the disease globally. It’s estimated that some 38 million people are currently living with the…
Employee Ownership Month – An Update on RDA’s EOT
As Employee Ownership Month draws to a close, RDA Consulting is celebrating our 10th month as an employee-owned trust (EOT). We have set up a Board of Directors and a Trust Stewardship Committee, both made up primarily of employees. We have governance documents and decision matrices, and are working on our first strategic planning process…
RDA Supports Indigenous People’s Day
by Ken Lupoff, Associate Director of Business Development Since its adoption in Berkeley, California 31 years ago, the celebration of Indigenous People’s Day has spread across the United States, replacing or being held in conjunction with Columbus Day. Today, some 18 states and innumerable cities and towns celebrate Indigenous People’s Day on the first Monday…
Overcoming Barriers and Expanding Access to Behavioral Health Services
by Caroline Calonge, Consultant and Paulina Hatfield, Consultant Access to behavioral health services is becoming more difficult, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, but programs are working to increase access to services for those that need it most. Recently, RDA Consulting partnered with Merced County in evaluating the effectiveness of an innovative program that makes services…
A Step Forward for Child Welfare in California
by Aditi Das, PhD, Consulting Manager All too often, cases of child abuse are erroneously reported (according to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, 82% of cases reported and investigated are unsubstantiated) and families are separated when caregivers and other persons of authority – teachers, school nurses, police officers – see that children…
June 19 — the Birth of Juneteenth
by Ken Lupoff, Associate Director of Business Development This year’s Juneteenth federal holiday falls on June 19 – the date in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order 3 in Texas, enforcing President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery and called for the freedom of Black people who had long been oppressed by…
“It’s our Fourth of July!” Celebrating Juneteenth When the Rest of the Country Catches Up…
by Charlene Y. Taylor, PhD, VP of Consulting Services Even though I grew up in Alaska, my family has very southern roots. I was born in Miami, Florida where both my parents were also born and raised. Being military, my family had friends from all over the country with varied backgrounds, so although I grew…
This Year’s LGBTQ Pride Month Is More Important Than Ever
by Julia Lang, Consulting Manager and Ken Lupoff, Associate Director of Business Development LGBTQ+ Pride Month (or Gay Pride Month) was first held in June of 1970 to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots that erupted over the long-term discrimination and harassment of New York City’s diverse LGBTQ+ communities by the city’s police force. Those gay…
Implementing Equitable & Collaborative Programs with Social Vulnerability Indices (SoVIs)
Identifying areas with the greatest need for intervention is critical when deciding where to direct limited financial resources, but it can be challenging to do with precision. Social vulnerability indices (SoVIs) offer a solution by simplifying complex policy questions into scores that identify areas with the greatest need for an intervention.
We Cannot Have Women’s Rights Without Abortion Rights
When SCOTUS ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022, many millions of women, other people with uteruses, and the people who love them, were faced with the devastating reality that their rights to bodily autonomy were being gutted nearly 50 years after having been enshrined in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Out of One, Many. RDA Enters a New Era of Employee Ownership…
We are delighted to announce that RDA Consulting is officially an employee-owned social purpose corporation! After more than a year of planning and solidifying financing and agreements, employees have purchased RDA from our former owner and CEO, Patricia Marrone Bennett, PhD. With this transition, Dr. Bennett has created a lasting legacy for our 38-eight-year old consultancy.
National Indigenous People’s Day
RDA Consulting is committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in both its work and community outreach. In that vein, it is our pleasure to announce that we will be making a donation in honor of National Indigenous People’s Day to the Oakland-based organization, Native American Health Center.