Our Capabilities
CARS is your partner in creating collaborative solutions with real impact.
As a trusted national leader in training and technical assistance, we’re known for delivering high-quality, evidence-informed support to organizations and agencies across sectors. With over 50 employees and a network of over 600 subject-matter expert consultants, we deliver a full spectrum of training and technical assistance services.
We provide over 400 training events every year and thousands of hours of customized support. Each year, CARS hosts over 400 training events and provides thousands of hours of customized support. Our expertise spans mental health, juvenile justice, substance use prevention, health equality, crisis response, systems leadership, and more.
I believe that the technical expertise provided by CARS and its partners’ qualifications, subject matter expertise, and relevant experience on issues and programs related to [our grant] have greatly contributed to our state’s progress in this change initiative.The level of responsiveness, flexibility, and respectful interactions that inspire the very collaboration we are called to promote in [our grant] is mirrored by CARS staff, and we appreciate that very much.
Wisconsin State Agency Staff
Ways we Support You:
Coaching & Consulting
Leverage your strengths for lasting results.
Coaching & Consulting
Cultivate sustainable progress with our strengths-based coaching and expert consultation. We partner with you to define your vision, leverage your unique strengths, and co-create your path to success, connecting you to a constellation of powerful resources to help you reach your goals.
Workshops & Trainings
Unlock your team’s potential.
Workshops & Trainings
Ignite your team’s potential through dynamic workshops and trainings designed to spark creativity, deepen engagement, and motivate meaningful change. From inspiring keynotes to immersive multiple-day facilitation, we leverage our expansive network of subject matter experts to craft learning experiences that inform and inspire your team.
Product & Resource Development
Connect with your community!
Product & Resource Development
Forge stronger community connections with outreach materials expertly designed to educate, engage, and inspire. Our dynamic team skillfully crafts everything from insightful guidebooks and practical toolkits to impactful multimedia presentations, short films, infographics, reports, and more. Let’s work together to tell your story and maximize your reach.
Event Planning & Cultivation
Make your next event unforgettable!
Event Planning & Cultivation
Make your next event unforgettable. Our end-to-end event planning and cultivation services include agenda development, speaker outreach, marketing, day-of facilitation, and everything in between to ensure your convenings connect key stakeholders, build powerful alliances, and generate lasting impact, all while respecting your budget and vision.
Evaluation
Showcase your impact with confidence!
Evaluation
Demonstrate your impact with clarity and confidence. Our expert evaluation services transform data into compelling narratives of success. From robust evaluation design to data collection, analysis, and reporting, we help you satisfy funders, illuminate your achievements, and showcase your value.
Project Management
Transform your vision into reality!
Project Management
Bring your vision to life with our friendly, meticulous project management. We expertly craft actionable timelines and plans, adapt to real-world challenges, and drive day-to-day progress with precision, ensuring your initiatives stay on track, on time, and on budget, so that you can focus on the big picture.
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Virtual Conference Events
We plan and produce large-scale virtual conferences from start to finish—developing themes, managing logistics, curating content, and cultivating meaningful engagement. Check out our System of Care Virtual Summit led by our NTTAC team.
Onsite Professional Conferences
We organize and facilitate in-person conferences that bring professionals together to share best practices, build networks, and drive system change. Check out the Regional Behavioral Health Policy Conferences led by our ABHPC team.
Onsite Community Events
We design and deliver engaging community events that center culture, wellness, and belonging while strengthening local partnerships. Check out Blossoming Together, led by our OC MHWB team.
Monthly Newsletters
We craft and distribute branded newsletters that share timely updates, highlight partner work, and keep communities informed and connected. Check out Prevention Pathways, led by our ABHPC team.
Planning Tools
We create user-friendly tools to support strategy, implementation, and sustainability for programs and systems. Check out the California Mobile Crisis Implementation Plan, developed by our MTAC team.
Podcast Series
We produce podcast series that elevate voices, share field innovations, and spark dialogue across systems of care. Check out Conversation Corner, led by our NTTAC team.
The CARS team have been accessible and responsive, tailored their supports to meet the unique needs and contextual realities of our state, and provided invaluable resources, ideas, guidance and support. Kentucky presents a complex landscape for integrating school- based behavioral health services, trying to connect more than 170 schools districts operating under local control and fourteen regional behavioral health centers into some type of consistent model of effective service delivery. Dr. Wolf-Prusan and the CARS team have offered us evidence- informed approaches that allow for adaptation to meet individual needs, but also enable the state agencies to monitor consistency and fidelity.
Miriam Silman, MSW Executive Advisor, Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health
Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
CustomizedOfferings
Having the right support makes all the difference. Explore our customized services to help turn your vision into action.
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Our customized offerings include:
Case Study: Advancing Mobile Crisis Response
We developed a comprehensive training and technical assistance (TTA) model to prepare states, counties, and county-contracted providers to build the capacity needed to meet federal and state-defined requirements for mobile crisis response…
