Organizational Impact & Development

The Kempe Center endeavors to promote inclusion across all levels of the organization.

We advance child and family well-being using evidence-based, trauma-informed practices. We uphold federal and state nondiscrimination laws and provide services, training, and research support in a fair, and inclusive manner to children, families and stakeholder groups.

Our equity work focuses on removing access barriers (e.g., language, geography, disability, poverty, social identity) while avoiding preferential treatment prohibited by law.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you finally, a responsibility to our young people.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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.

- Lila Watson

Bridging to Relationship Coaching Program (RQ)

Bridging to Relationship (BTR) Coaching invites leaders into the practice of relating across the many stories, histories, identities, and roles that coexist within an organization. Through reflective inquiry, relational skill-building, and intentional dialogue, leaders learn to recognize the conditions that shape people’s experiences of being welcomed, respected, and able to contribute—and to see how patterns of relating and the flow of influence affect those experiences.

Designed by Michelle D. Davis, LPC, PCC, ORSC, CDTLF, leaders learn to listen for the often-unspoken signals that determine whether people feel seen, valued, and supported. They develop the capacity to engage across differences with curiosity and courage, surface what is present but not yet voiced, and steward relationships in ways that nurture psychological safety and trust.

By deepening presence, expanding perspective, and strengthening relational agility, the program helps leaders create environments where people experience genuine welcome, shared contribution, and authentic connection—spaces where differences become sources of insight, creativity, and collective strength.

The Organizational Impact & Development core provides consultation and support to internal and external programs. Training access and evaluation follow objective, job-related criteria. Kempe does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, disability, or any other protected status. Consultation involves guiding programs in the utilization of the inclusion principles to advance and achieve sustainable change throughout the Center’s Core service areas of advocacy, clinical, research, education and business operations to include hiring and retention, and external partner programs and practices.

• KIDS Program
• SafeCare®
• CWTS Program
• Research
• TRIP Program