SERVICES
Strategy grounded in community. Solutions built for implementation.
Kinfolk Consulting works with organizations, providers, funders, and public-sector partners to address complex challenges in maternal and community health. From conducting research and assessing maternal health systems to developing birth centers, strengthening workforces, navigating policy and payment, and implementing new programs, we help our partners understand what needs to change—and build practical strategies to make that change possible. Our services can be provided independently or combined into larger, multi-phase engagements.
STRATEGY & SYSTEMS
Research, Assessment & Evaluation
Workforce scans • Qualitative research • Landscape assessments • Needs and gap analyses • Stakeholder engagement • Program assessment • Evaluation
Strategic Planning & Implementation
Strategic plans • Implementation roadmaps • Program design • Pilot development • KPIs • Partnership strategy • Sustainability planning
Policy, Payment & Systems Change
Policy analysis • Medicaid strategy • Reimbursement • Credentialing • Payer engagement • Regulatory analysis • Coalition development
Systems Integration & Quality Improvement
Referral pathways • Hospital-community partnerships • Transfer protocols • Quality improvement • Interprofessional collaboration • Data and performance measurement
WORKFORCE & CAPACITY
Strengthen the people and organizations doing the work.
Kinfolk helps maternal and community health organizations build stronger workforces, develop organizational capacity, and create the infrastructure needed to deliver and sustain high-quality care.
Workforce Development
Workforce assessments • Recruitment and retention strategies • Workforce pipeline development • Student and trainee support • Preceptor development • Professional development • Leadership development • Workforce sustainability
Technical Assistance & Organizational Capacity
Operational support • Process improvement • Policies and procedures • Program implementation • Administrative infrastructure • Compliance support • Organizational development • Sustainability planning
Training & Workshops
Customized training • Professional development • Continuing education • Team training • Skills development • Organizational learning
Coaching & Advising
Individualized strategic support • Leadership advising • Organizational growth • Practice development • Operational problem-solving • Birth worker and provider support
Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement
Strategic planning sessions • Workgroups • Stakeholder meetings • Community listening sessions • Cross-sector convenings • Partnership development
BIRTH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONS
From vision to sustainable community-based care.
Kinfolk supports new, emerging, and established birth centers through the strategic, operational, financial, and regulatory realities of developing and sustaining community-based maternity care.
Plan
Feasibility and strategic planning • Business plan development • Financial planning and budgeting • Community needs assessment • Ownership and organizational structure • Facility planning • Sustainability strategy
Build
Licensing and regulatory readiness • Accreditation preparation • Policies and procedures • Staffing models • Operational workflows • Compliance infrastructure • Facility operations • Community and healthcare partnerships
Launch
Operational readiness • Medicaid enrollment • Provider credentialing • Payer contracting • Billing and reimbursement systems • Transfer relationships • Staff preparation • Quality and administrative systems
Sustain & Grow
Operational improvement • Financial sustainability • Reimbursement strategy • Workforce planning • Quality improvement • Organizational growth • Process improvement • Troubleshooting • Ongoing technical assistance
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND LEARNING
Sometimes you don't need a full consulting engagement. You need the right expertise at the right time.
Kinfolk provides targeted technical assistance, coaching, training, and facilitation for maternal health organizations, birth centers, providers, and leaders navigating specific challenges or building new capabilities.
Technical Assistance
Targeted expertise to address operational, organizational, workforce, policy, payment, compliance, or implementation challenges.
Coaching & Advising
Individualized strategic support for leaders navigating organizational growth, birth center development, operational challenges, or major decisions.
Training & Workshops
Customized learning experiences for organizations, teams, birth workers, and maternal health professionals.
Facilitation
Structured facilitation for strategic planning, stakeholder meetings, workgroups, community conversations, and cross-sector initiatives.
Who We Work With
Kinfolk partners with organizations and leaders working to improve maternal and community health, including foundations and philanthropic organizations, government and public health agencies, healthcare organizations, health systems, community-based organizations, birth centers, midwifery organizations, Medicaid and managed care organizations, FQHCs and community health centers, advocacy organizations, universities and training programs, midwives, doulas, and other birth workers.
How We Work
Every engagement is different.
Some partners come to Kinfolk with a clearly defined project. Others know something needs to change but need help determining where to begin. We can support a specific phase of work—such as research, strategic planning, policy analysis, or technical assistance—or partner across the lifecycle of an initiative, from discovery and stakeholder engagement through strategy, implementation, and evaluation.
Tell us what you're trying to build, solve, or change. We'll help determine the path forward.
“ If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together”
— Lilla Watson
