Services

The scope of consultation provided by MLP Communications ranges across four pillars of quality service:

Strategic Planning and Mapping Services

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MLP Communication’s strategic planning services help our customers define their visions and missions and develop strategic objectives for business action plans so that they can achieve their visions. We work with customers to determine the best methods for delivering value and complying with changing intervention and programming requirements. As a complement, MLP’s Strategic Mapping services deliver a visual representation of an organization’s plan to turn its resources and assets into tangible outcomes linked to organizational objectives. Specializing in organizational communication, MLP Communication understands the key value the organization provides its customers and stakeholders, the implications of not delivering value, and methods needed to identify key levers to improve client value and customer satisfaction.

MLP Communications offers the following strategic planning services:

  • Visioning
  • Environmental and Situational Analysis
  • Strategic Business Planning
  • Mission, Vision, Values
  • Goals, Objectives, Targets
  • Organizational Communications
  • Team-Building, Consensus-Building
  • Balanced Scorecard Reporting

We tailor our implementation plans to the organization’s current and future needs and include change management diagnostics, which help identify the potential resistance or breakdown points during implementation. Often these plans involve educating top management so that they have an understanding of the concepts, principles, and tools needed to build a true commitment to the strategic direction and processes required for implementation

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Research and Evaluation Services

MLP Communications offers services in design, application, and analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. Consultation services can also be provided for needs assessments, market research, and formative and summative evaluation. Data management and reporting requirements are tailored to client and study needs.

MLP Communications’ research and evaluation services provide high quality, independent research in all areas of health communication and public health programming. Our extensive research experience enables us to select from a wide range of research techniques and methodologies, including online surveys and evaluations. We use a variety of print and electronic reporting formats, tailored to meet the clients' requirements.

The core staff of MLP Communications has experience and proficiency using standard evaluation software for optimal reporting, including SAS, SPSS, SUDAAN, Social Network Analysis, HLM, MLWin, EpiInfo, STD*MIS and ArcGIS (Geo-coding Software).

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Capacity Development and Grant Writing Services

MLP Communications offers services in capacity development and grant seeking/writing for the client. This includes perming searches for grant funding, grant proposal development based on an RFP or solicitation, grant application development, Request for Proposal (RFP) development, grant proposal review and grant proposal evaluation.

As a company specializing in health communication, MLP Communication touts its ability to craft a statement of need that highlights the public health impact of the funded service and sites the published research literature to validate risk and need statements on behalf of the client. The business of grant attainment and funding is critical to propel the mission of any organization seeking such services. Our company aspires to offer the most professional and efficient consultation in meeting these objectives. We will conduct thorough research to determine appropriate funding options, match organizational needs with make strategic, budgetary recommendations for a balanced financial portfolio, compile, write, and edit all applications with excellence in expository writing, and assist in the submission of progress reports and supplementary materials as required by the sponsoring organization.

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Health Communication Campaign Consultation Services

We offer consultation and support in the design of health communication campaigns for our clients. Specializing in multi-level interventions and campaigns, we offer a variety of solutions and tactics to strategically reach the aims of the client’s campaign. Strategies can be designed to: increase knowledge of intended audience(s), influence the perceptions and beliefs that could shape norms/policy, reinforce healthy behavior, increase demand for services, refute myths, advocate a position, increase surveillance and disease awareness, distribute emergency messages, strengthen organizational relationships, prompt action and response, evaluation campaign strategies, and, with varying success, cause sustained individual behavior change.

MLP Communications’ campaign consultation services provide high quality, multi-level, strategic delivery in all areas of public health programming to a variety of audiences. Our extensive health communication experience (theoretical and applied) enables us to select from a wide range of evidence-based techniques and methodologies, including the use of new media channels, tailored to meet the clients' needs.