Technical Assistance

 

What is Technical Assistance (TA)?

Technical assistance is a collaborative consultation in which MCSR, as the TA provider, offers you expert, targeted, customized, strength-based support to effectively establish or enhance your engaging boys and men programming through phone calls, meetings, webinars, document reviews, trainings, and other means.

MCSR, internationally recognized for our approach to positively mobilizing men in the prevention of sexual and domestic violence, has provided TA for 25 years to a host of federal, state, and community agencies and organizations, as well as businesses.

What does technical assistance look like with MCSR?

Our approach is to customize the technical assistance to meet your needs and goals, which we understand can be multi-dimensional and may evolve over time. The tiers below offer a framework for thinking about what level of support we can provide, but they are not prescriptive.

  • Tier 1: Minimum MCSR involvement. For example: Phone calls about possible resources or suggestions; providing feedback and consultation on a single document or project.

  • Tier 2: Medium MCSR involvement. For example: Providing consultation to a working group; participating in scheduled meetings; building relationships with new contacts; providing feedback on multiple documents or projects.

  • Tier 3: Maximum MCSR involvement. For example: Leading and organizing scheduled meetings with a working group on a given topic (e.g., a strategic plan, or a program curriculum); assisting in developing new programming or a public education campaign; establishing new or revitalizing existing networks for support.

How can MCSR support you with technical assistance?

 Ways MCSR can support your efforts in a number of ways, including:

  • Building capacity to implement community assessments and program evaluations

  • Brokering and leveraging relationships to build an effective network of allies

  • Assisting in the creation of a strategic plan of action, including mission and vision statements

  • Helping to address policies and systems

  • Suggesting resources

  • Providing programming suggestions, feedback, and recommendations

  • Assisting in building organizational solutions

Contact us: training@mcsr.org

In 25 years, MCSR has reached more than 200 million men and boys through our pioneering youth development programs, public education campaigns, trainings, presentations, and technical assistance.

Drawing on our expertise in mobilizing boys and men to end violence against women through healthy masculinity, our trainings and technical assistance aim to “meet people where they are” so that communities can better produce sustainable, measurable outcomes at each level of the environmental change model, emphasizing primary prevention, social and emotional learning, and healthy masculinity.