Our services fall into four interconnected areas of expertise:

Training

• Program Planning

  • In this training, participants learn the important process of planning for change. Participants learn how to create a program rationale, develop a planning committee, assess community needs, identify an appropriate framework/model, as well as create goals and SMART objectives.

• Sustainable Program Implementation Strategies

  • This training is the basis of putting a program plan into action. Participants learn to coordinate resources, market the program to the priority population, and create a logic model to visualize the link among all program activities and desired outcomes. 

• Program Monitoring & Evaluation

  • In this training, participants learn the CDC-identified framework for program evaluation, as well as how to select and implement an evaluation design. Topics include data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as how to disseminate findings to audiences of various backgrounds and literacy levels.

• Systems Transformation Leadership

  • This advanced training equips leaders with frameworks and tools to guide organizational transformation toward health equity. Participants learn to identify leverage points for systems change, manage resistance, and build coalitions for sustainable impact. The training emphasizes practical application through real-world scenarios and peer learning.

• Change Management for Health Equity

  • This comprehensive training helps organizations navigate the human side of transformation. Participants learn to assess readiness for change, develop inclusive communication strategies, and build buy-in across stakeholder groups while centering equity in every step of the change process.

• Public Health Information Dissemination

  • Information dissemination training equips participants with the skills to create and distribute written and graphically-designed materials to priority communities in a manner that is culturally relevant and appropriate to various backgrounds and literacy levels. Participants learn to create infographics from dense research content, as well as to optimize social media, radio, and television for dissemination to the public.

• Creating Community Needs Assessments

  • In this training, participants learn the 6 steps of assessing community needs. Topics include: determining the purpose and scope of the assessment; conducting a literature search; gathering and analyzing data; identifying health problem risk factors; and identifying the program’s focus.

• Racial Equity and Advocacy Workshop Series

  • Training workshops in this series revolve around creating a foundation of understanding about race, implicit/explicit bias, discrimination, and systemic effects on health and wellness outcomes. By the end of this training series, participants are able to differentiate among implicit bias, explicit bias, and discrimination; identify types and outcomes of structural/systemic racism; and strategize next steps in advocating for equitable wellness.

• Medical Mistrust Since COVID-19

  • Black Americans' general mistrust of biomedicine is deeply rooted in White supremacy and centuries of overt efforts to justify medical mistreatment. Immediate action is needed to finally stem the negative health effects and mistrust arising from the perpetual oppression and exploitation of Black bodies. This training outlines the history of medical mistreatment among Black Americans, reviews the ways this history continues to exacerbate mistrust, and explores opportunities to erode that mistrust for better uptake of COVID-19 prevention and intervention strategies in Black communities. 

• Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

  • This training discusses how gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with race and other aspects of identity. Participants are able to describe strategies to create HIV prevention and care programs that acknowledge and address disparities caused by intersecting oppressions.

Technical Assistance

• Strategic Planning

  • Planning strategies include: disease prevention programs; programs to address systemic injustice; connecting with Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and MSM communities; and reducing stigma in communities of color.

• Systems Change Assessment

  • We guide organizations through comprehensive assessment of current systems, identifying barriers to equity and opportunities for transformation. This includes stakeholder mapping, power analysis, and development of targeted intervention strategies that address root causes of health disparities.

• Health Equity Implementation Support

  • Our hands-on support helps organizations move from planning to action. We provide structured guidance for implementing equity-focused initiatives, including framework selection, progress monitoring, and adaptive management strategies that respond to community feedback and emerging needs.

• Policy Analysis & Development

  • We assist organizations in analyzing existing policies through an equity lens and developing new policies that promote health justice. This includes key influencer engagement, evidence review, impact assessment, and creation of guidelines that ensure policy changes lead to meaningful outcomes.

• Program Planning and Evaluation

  • Abloom coordinates a group’s planning and/or evaluation method(s), assisting with the design of the overall process, as well as the actionable steps to see the process through to completion. 

• Community Needs Assessment

  • Abloom guides departments and organizations through the 6 steps of assessing community needs. Together, we will determine the purpose and scope of the assessment; conduct a literature search; gather and analyze data; as well as identify health problem risk factors.

• Grassroots Organization & Coalition Building

  • To end health disparities, communities must be fully empowered to organize and advocate for their needs. Abloom guides groups into building coalitions, forming campaigns, and utilizing existing resources to achieve necessary outcomes. 

• Recruitment for Behavioral Interventions

  • Together with Abloom, departments and organizations plan recruitment strategies to attract priority populations, such as Black same-gender loving (SGL) men and Black women, to services and retain them throughout care. 

Facilitation

• Focus Groups

  • Focus groups are ideal to receive opinions, suggestions, and reactions before an initiative is made available to the larger public. 

• Focused Conversations

  • Abloom is skilled in facilitating targeted conversations that efficiently move from initial responses to a topic to interpretations and conclusions with clear next steps. This is an ideal tool for discussing difficult topics or navigating a complex idea in a short period of time and with everyone’s input taken into account.    

• Consensus Workshops

  • The goal of a consensus workshop is to have a group come to a consensus, or general agreement, about a topic. This workshop begins with a focused question and allows for brainstorming. Later, the group organizes ideas into clusters, identifying core ideas from each cluster and determining next steps to move the ideas forward.  

• Action Planning Workshops

  • For groups with a general idea or initiative in mind, this workshop uses a series of steps to create a focused, actionable timeline for planning and implementation. 

• Strategic Planning Workshops

  • The strategic planning process begins with a group’s development of a shared vision and identification of any barriers to progress. The group is then guided into the development of strategic actions and a plan to implement the strategies.   

Speaking Engagements

• Keynote Speaking

  • Engaging keynotes that challenge audiences to think differently about health equity and systems change. Dr. Lewis combines compelling data with powerful storytelling to inspire action and transformation.

• Panel Participation

  • Expert contributions to discussions on public health equity, systems transformation, community engagement, and organizational change. Dr. Lewis brings both academic rigor and practical implementation experience to complex conversations.

• Conference Presentations

  • Evidence-based presentations on health equity, systems change, and community engagement strategies. Topics are customized to audience needs and conference themes.

Signature Topics:

• Systems Transformation for Health Equity

• Building Sustainable Change in Public Health

• Community Engagement and Power Building

• Medical Mistrust and Health Justice

• Leading Organizational Change for Equity

To inquire about Dr. Lewis's speaking availability and rates, please contact info@abloomwell.com.