Overview

WRMA draws upon almost a quarter of a century of extensive national, regional, and local consulting experience working with public and private human services agencies to evaluate and improve services for children and families. Since the firm's founding in 1980, WRMA's professional staff have conducted more than 300 customized, time-limited projects for States, counties, and cities as well as for Federal agencies, leading foundations, and national associations and consortia. Many of these projects have focused on child and family welfare issues and have required in-depth interaction with the client, the study sites, and the communities. These projects also have included literature reviews; policy-relevant hypothesis formulation; site visits; focus group meetings; program, worker, and client surveys; programming and processing of project-specific databases; and related analyses and assessments.

WRMA specializes in five service areas: Research, Evaluation, Strategic Planning, National Data Collection and Reporting Systems, and Information Systems development, for which the company has developed extensive and impressive track records for its consulting services. In the Information Systems development area we have built client assessment, case management, and program and performance monitoring systems for Federal, State, and community-based organizations. WRMA Research services are directed at understanding the circumstances and consequences of decision making behavior and building a knowledge base for improving program administration, assessment tools, and staff training and retention. During Evaluation projects, WRMA staff assesses the quality of existing data and work to build the capacity of the agency to develop and use data in day-to-day management, planning, and evaluation. Our firm's approach to Strategic Planning is rooted in our knowledge of what works in complex public sector environments taken from our experience with more than 30 projects for States and local agencies. With our National Data Collection and Reporting System services, WRMA staff help state child welfare and social services agencies collect, analyze, and disseminate national data.

Professional Staff

One of WRMA's greatest strengths is our professional staff. We have successfully assembled one of the most highly qualified teams, bringing extensive experience in assisting large, complex public sector agencies throughout the United States. We have assisted in the development of viable, stakeholder influenced results-oriented strategic plans; technology-based outcome evaluations; and public and private sector policies and practices; as well as the design, development and implementation of information technology systems.

	Our staff includes nationally recognized leaders in the areas of research and evaluation as well as strategic and technology planning for public sector and private agencies.
	Our project managers are all senior professionals with more than ten years of experience in their particular technical or programmatic field.
	WRMA's senior staff members hold advanced degrees in such fields as: Sociology, Law, Psychology, Computer Sciences, Public Policy Administration, and Social Services, with concentrations in the areas of Community Organization, Planning and Administration, Urban Government, Public Administration, Service Delivery Systems, and Criminology.

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