Orange Cap Consultation centers harm reduction in public policy— and teaches you how, too.
Orange Cap is a full service consulting firm specializing in trauma-informed meeting facilitation, nonprofit technical assistance, and social policy design related to community health & safety.
Our work centers the concept of harm reduction as an ethic in public service. We work to build communities, empower marginalized voices, and enable self-determination.
Orange Cap Offerings
Engagement & Analysis
Community Engagement Design and outreach implementation support, especially for marginalized & over-policed communities.
Meeting Facilitation
Trauma-informed meeting and working group facilitation.
Public Speaking Engagements
Utilizing our lived experience as people affected by poverty and the war on drugs, to help shape public narratives around otherness.
Community Health & Safety planning
Integrating harm reduction praxis to traditional public safety systems in the
Equity Coaching
There are gaps in each and every one of our spheres of knowledge— and that’s ok! The search for answers to tough questions about race, class, and disparities are explored and unpacked in a safe environment.
Orange Cap celebrates the human experience. We apply the following principles in our work:
Healing-Centered Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction is a term first used in the context of drug use, to describe the practice of keeping people alive through mutual aid and resource-sharing. Orange Cap embodies healing-centered harm reductive practices, as outlined by Reframe Health & Justice, and embeds them across domains of social justice.
Targeted Universalism
Targeted Universalism is an evolving approach to social sector work, emphasizing universal goals with targeted approaches to accomplishing those goals. Using the approaches of targeted universalism, Orange Cap helps organizations create equitable, results-driven programming and internal tools.
Anti-Racism
DEI work is about more than learning terms and avoiding microaggressions— it’s a continual practice of engaging in self-reflection and requires discomfort.
Community Health & Safety planning
Orange Cap is a leader in harm reductive public safety practice, and helps guide policy and programs that honor community health and safety for all. Orange Cap can help build and plan for carceral alternatives, conduct community outreach about sensitive public safety issues, and help steward community wholeness through public processes.
Project Examples:
King County Public Safety Advisory Committee Facilitation & Recommendations, “Recommendations on Hiring a New Sheriff and Improving Public Safety in King County.” King County. 2021.
Racial Equity in 9-1-1 Communications, King County Sheriff’s Office, Valley Com 9-1-1,” BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2021.
WA Department of Commerce, Homeless Service Providers Workforce Needs Study, BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2022-2023.
Public Meeting Facilitation
Trauma-informed meeting facilitation
Bord Retreats
Conflict mediation
Community-specific Engagement design
Facilitation of public working groups, such as:
WA State Department of Commerce Permanent Supportive Housing Workgroup Facilitation. 2023.
City of Burien, Equitable Community Engagement Training (Co-facilitator). BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2022.
King County Office of the Executive, Public Safety Advisory Committee Facilitation. 2021-2022.
Engagement & Analysis
We know it takes a lot to fully engage a population and get the results needed to make an impact; that’s why Orange Cap offers a full suite of services related to community engagement & analysis, including Outreach Design, Policy Analysis, and Study Design.
Project Examples:
City of Burien, WA, Community Connector Program Design, Project Manager & Engagement Design. 2022.
City of Lynnwood, WA, Public Safety & Equity Survey & Report, Project Manager & Engagement Design, BDS Plannign & Urban Design. 2021-2022