Imoyase Community Support Services

Imoyase Community Support Services (ICSS) is a nonprofit (501c3) organization with over 30 years of experience conducting program evaluation and action research that is participatory, culturally relevant, collaborative, and flexible, resulting in meaningful individual, community, organizational, and systems policy change throughout Los Angeles, California, and the nation. ICSS has experience working with diverse populations across the United States, and has conducted many multi-site, multi-year, multi-level program evaluations, and provided technical support to small to mid-sized organizations that serve African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Native American communities. ICSS also works with service providers, private foundations, governmental agencies, and other institutions to aid them in evaluating their impact in communities and provide recommendations for expanding their reach and strategic direction.

Imoyase evaluation and technical assistance extends to across diverse communities in LA County, California, and across the country and touches on a host of social justice and community issues such as:

• health
• mental health
• education
• child welfare and juvenile justice
• alcohol and drug prevention and treatment
• youth development
• systems, environmental, and public policy change
• organizational capacity
• community organizing
• social networks among communities and organizations
• homelessness
• community based leadership
• civic engagement
• reentry

A majority of Imoyase’s work has focused on organizations involved in direct service and social justice issues, coalition/alliance building, popular education, and local/state policy advocacy. We conduct evaluations focused on at-risk and high-risk youth, education and juvenile justice issues, adult ex offender re-entry, youth and adult prevention and early intervention in mental health and substance use, organizational capacity building, community organizing, network analysis, public health (e.g., childhood obesity prevention, youth wellness etc.), and environmental, systems and policy change. We also design customized measurement strategies and tools.