Our mission is to bridge the gap between new initiatives and their effective rollout through expert change management and evaluation services. We partner with organizations to turn initiatives, innovations, and best practices into actionable steps, ensuring your projects achieve their desired impact and outcomes.
Behavioral Health Program Development
From initial concept to full implementation, we help build effective and sustainable behavioral health programs.
Digital Transformation
Identifying ways to enhance and utilize current electronic approaches, improve applications, or create digital systems to improve outcomes.
Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System
This is a full-service approach, from applying for the waiver through implementation to evaluation and outcomes.
Evaluation
Data-driven evaluation to impact fiscal reliability, sustainability, and proven outcomes for programming success.
Innovations Efforts
Leading innovative projects and targeted efforts to promote mental health.
Law Enforcement and Community Relationships
Strengthening ties between law enforcement and communities through strategic initiatives and training, including supporting CIT programs to enhance crisis response and mental health intervention.
Legislative Advocacy
Enhancing change through legislative initiatives.
Needs Assessments and Strategic Planning
Internal planning and improvement, partnering with the community and stakeholders, cross-department collaborations and alignment of strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement
Creating conversations and partnerships across your stakeholder population, providing surveys or holding focus groups.
By choosing Concepts Forward, you are not just partnering with a team but with a group of dedicated professionals who are committed to ensuring your initiatives are successfully launched and sustainably impactful. Let us help you turn your vision into reality.
Our team is skilled in access, timeliness and quality of behavioral health plans, systemwide outcomes and evaluation, and communitywide needs assessment and population health partnerships.
With nearly three decades of experience in social services, Kiran Sahota has transformed community behavioral health through innovative programs, law enforcement training, and digital solutions to tackle complex challenges and drive systemic change.
After retiring as a Senior Behavioral Health Manager in 2020, she founded Concepts Forward Consulting, focusing on strategic planning and quality review projects, including the California statewide initiatives of CalAIM, the Behavioral Health Services Act, and electronic Psychiatric Advance Directives.
