Center for Human Service Leadership
Washington University, the Brown School, and the Center for Human Service Leadership are partners in Delmar DivINe. The Center’s vision is transforming the real estate project into a vibrant, collaborative, innovative community of organizations that deliver effective, efficient, ethical, transformative services to clients, customers and community. In pursuit of that vision, the Center will provide on-site organizational capacity-building services to improve the leadership and management abilities of our tenants – their leadership and employees.
Our Mission:
Creating and sustaining an equitable community space to build organizational capacity though leadership and management services to the Delmar DivINe tenants and larger St. Louis community.
In Collaboration with Delmar DivINe leadership, the Mission is operationalized through:
- Animation: The center will organize a variety of educational programs, social and on-boarding activities to connect tenants, facilitate relationships, stimulate collaboration, enhance employee morale and build a distinctive Delmar DivINe community culture that centers diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Concierge Information & Referral Services: The team will research and obtain answers to day-to-day problems, provide informational management consulting, make referrals and introductions, curate & disseminate information to tenants, acting as an extension of the tenant’s management.
- Connection to Brown School and Washington University Resources: As part of the ongoing partnership between Delmar DivINe and Washington University, the Center team facilitates access to other services such as Professional Development, Evaluation Center, Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab, Office of Field Education, faculty-supported student projects, and Community Engagement department.
- Professional Development and Executive Education: The Center will design, plan and implement a variety of both informal and formal educational and training programs designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of organizational leaders, staff, board members and volunteers.