Public-health consultancy · Meghan Hynes
Plan for change
Pragmatic public-health strategy, rooted in harm reduction and lived experience.
Rooted in health justice and harm reduction, Practical Strategies helps organizations craft pragmatic solutions to complex public-health problems — through strategic planning, program design, technical assistance, training, and evaluation. Drawing on lived experience and a direct-services background, we help programs evolve with their communities and lay the foundation for equitable access to quality health services.
Too many promising projects falter in practice. We design programs to be strategic and adaptable, so they make a tangible impact on the ground. Our participatory approach puts the staff who implement your project at the center of building it — strengthening your internal capacity as you go — and keeps service-user input in the loop at every stage, so your program stays responsive to the community it serves.
Twelve ways we help programs plan, build, and prove their impact.
Set a clear direction your team can actually act on.
Services shaped around real community needs.
Keep complex work moving and on the rails.
Practical learning that sticks with staff.
Hands-on support, right where you need it.
Measure what matters and show your impact.
Move policy toward health and dignity.
Guide boards and teams through hard, productive conversations.
Evidence to ground your decisions.
Clear proposals, reports, and materials.
Deep harm-reduction and drug-user-health expertise.
Frontline experience that informs every plan.
Years alongside harm-reduction and drug-user-health communities — in advocacy and in direct service.
Trusted by teams at Shanti Project & The Sidewalk Project.
Tell me what you're working on. I'll get back to you with a pragmatic place to start.
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