Guide Service - Center for Health and Safety Culture

Moving From Knowledge to Practice

Communities succeed when they team up with our Center staff! Knowing about the Positive Culture Framework (PCF) is the first step. Once you've taken that first step, our Guide Service can help you move forward with confidence.

Culture change isn’t easy and unexpected bumps can happen along the way. That’s where our Guide Service comes in; a personal Guide helps you skillfully navigate the transformation journey.

You get guidance on strategies, leadership growth, and communication, all customized to your project.

Details

Once you’ve completed a PCF training, you can tap into Guide Service. It’s designed to boost your skills and help you put the PCF into action.

Your Guide is a liaison to the full Center team and affiliated professors and is available through a one-year contract (renewable annually). We provide monthly calls and unlimited email support. At year’s end, we deliver an executive summary with progress highlights and steps to keep advancing.

Why it Matters

We know that applying new concepts like the PCF or building capacity within your team is easier and more successful when you have ongoing support from an expert. Our Guide Service adapts to your pace and your goals.

Key Benefits

Trusted support: Talk through what's happening in your community or organization.

Broad expertise: Learn from the Center’s experience working across communities and states.

Motivation boost: We help keep stakeholders engaged and energized to elevate your prevention efforts.

Meet Your Guide

At the Center for Health and Safety Culture (CHSC), our work is built on the solid foundation laid by dedicated staff over many years, and our team works together to partner with communities to improve health and safety.

Hi, I’m Sam, your Guide with CHSC and liaison to the full CHSC team and our network of affiliated professors and colleagues. It’s my privilege to build on the strong guidance the Center has provided over the years. The Center has supported countless community leaders, bringing real-world experience and commitment to your prevention and Positive Culture Framework journey.

My strengths are in building relationships and finding solutions. I’m here to help you connect with local stakeholders, harness your leadership potential, act on your efforts, and keep things moving, supporting you every step of the way (and yes, we’ll have some fun in the process). I not only coach you through the PCF process but also provide insights on how you can approach the process to be even more effective.

You’ll never feel alone as we work together to improve health and safety outcomes in your community. I’m excited for the opportunity to guide and support you!

You can learn more about me here.

What Others Are Saying: Transformative Support Through the Years

“[The CHSC Guide] is fantastic!! Thoughtful, smart, kind, reliable, insightful. She actually reads all the emails and attachments I send her! I have only been doing our monthly calls for a few months, and I feel like we have accomplished so much already.” -2025 Guide Client 

“Guide service helped me with the technicalities of understanding the process of how [the Positive Culture Framework] is applied in real life and removing the sense of ‘I'm all alone in this.’ It has diminished a lot of the fear and the sense that this is too big for me…It’s just invaluable to me.” -2024 Guide Client

Have Questions or Inspired to Start Guide Service?

Please email CHSC@montana.edu

Guide Communities

Guide Service has partnered with communities nationwide, providing tailored expertise across a wide range of health and safety topics with far-reaching impact.