Specialized human service consulting 

Claudia Pineda lives in Renton, Washington and has lived and worked in the Seattle area since 2016. Through her career as a Social Worker, she has worked in a range of settings to develop human service systems that sought to advance social and racial justice. The depth of knowledge she has had the privilege to acquire compels her to build community capacity. In addition to being committed to a full-time role as a Program Manager at King County, she offers limited consulting services in short-term, specialized projects. Since community is essential to human service efforts, she has developed strong ties with other professionals who offer an array of expertise. When there is an opportunity to increase value for a client, she partners with consultants from this network to deliver. She is available to work on these efforts during limited weekday hours, evening hours, weekends, and sometimes during the week. She provides services over Zoom and in person. (More about Claudia...)

Leadership Statement

Services Offered

1. Leadership, relationship, and program management coaching/advising 

2. Trainings: 

• Social service provision (crisis counseling, interventions, action planning, safety planning)

• Facilitation (groups, youth, adults, arts expression)

• Program design (youth and adult programs, including summer camps)

• Restorative justice, mediation, and conflict management

• Topics related to domestic violence

• Working through "resistance"

• Interpersonal skill development such as: communication, listening, accountability, healthy boundaries, self-awareness, etc.

• About domestic violence (survivors, interventions, and when perpetrated by youth)

3. Team development workshops

   • Skill and community building

4. Interventions

• Conflict resolution

• Specific situations

5. Presentations, panels, keynote speaking

Approaches

Claudia's work is informed by the incorporation of the following models and frameworks in which she has been educated, trained, and mentored throughout her career.  

• The Creative Community Empowerment Model 

• Experiential Learning

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Restorative Justice - Community Group Conferencing

• Strengths based approach

• Non-Violent Communication

• Healing centered engagement

• Client centered advocacy
  
  

Racial Liberation and Antiracism Education

• Extensive trainings with the Center for Equity and Inclusion in Portland, Oregon 

• Latin American Studies B.A. and Ethnic Studies B.A. from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Though there are too many theories to list, the practices she adopts noticeably prioritizes the following:

• Psychodynamic theory

• Empowerment theory

• The theory of oppression, critical race theory, and feminism

• Abolition

Previous and Ongoing Partnerships

• Psychiatry & Behavioral Services Co-Lab for Community & Behavioral Health Policy @University of Washington

• Georgetown Community Development Authority @Seattle, WA

• Justice for Girls Coalition @Washington state

• Partners for Youth Empowerment @Langley, WA

• King County Office of Equity and Social Justice

• Park Orchard Elementary School @Kent, WA

• SeaMar @Washington state

• Vulgar @Mexico City

• Encarne @Mexico City

• Fundacion Tomillo @Madrid, Spain

• Young Women Empowered @Seattle, WA

• The Center for Equity and Inclusion @Portland, OR

• La Cima, Bilingual Leadership Camp and La Chispa @Washington state

• Step Up @King County, Washington

• Open School @Portland, Oregon

• Emerging Design Consulting @Seattle, WA

• Binghamton University @New York

• Enlace Comunitario @Albuquerque, NM

• Common Ground Mediation Services @Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Hispanic Scholarship Fund @San Jose, CA