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Culturally grounded training and facilitation for organizations doing meaningful, complex work.
Evergreen Training & Development is a Native-led training, facilitation, and capacity-building partner supporting professionals, organizations, and coalitions working at the intersection of mental wellness, youth development, and community resilience. Our work is rooted in Indigenous values, relational accountability, and the belief that people and communities already carry the wisdom needed to heal, lead, and grow.We partner with tribal nations, tribal-serving organizations, public health systems, youth-serving programs, and national networks to build practical skills, strengthen systems, and guide courageous conversations—always with respect for culture, sovereignty, and lived experience.
Development, Technical Assistance & Partnerships
Beyond training, Evergreen partners with organizations to strengthen programs, systems, and long-term capacity. Our development work is collaborative, relational, and grounded in community priorities.
Trusted by and partnered with national networks and organizations including:
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National Mentoring Resource Center
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Tribal Youth Resource Center
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One Fire Associates
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Opioid Response Network
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National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health
Our work often includes program design, evaluation readiness, sustainability planning, and strengths-based storytelling that translates community impact for funders and partners.
Facilitation & Strategic Planning
Facilitation is at the heart of Evergreen’s work.
We design and lead structured, inclusive processes that help groups think clearly, speak honestly, and move forward together—especially when the work is complex or emotionally charged.
Facilitation services include:
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Strategic planning and implementation
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Coalition and advisory council facilitation
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Community listening sessions and stakeholder engagement
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Effective meeting design and difficult conversations
Our approach blends proven facilitation methods (ToP® and ORID) with Indigenous frameworks that honor story, relationship, and collective responsibility.
We hold space so groups can do their best thinking together.
Our Cultural Lens & Approach
Evergreen’s work is guided by Indigenous frameworks and values, including:
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Relational worldviews that honor balance across mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural domains
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Wisdom of Ceremony as a planning and reflection framework (preparation, commitment, follow-through, rest)
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Community-defined evidence and lived experience as essential sources of knowledge
Culture is not content—it is how truth is practiced through relationship. This lens reframes historical trauma through collective resilience and honors the ways Native people and communities sustain identity, language, and connection across generations.
Cortney Yarholar, LMSW
Founder & CEO
Cortney Yarholar is an enrolled member of the Sac & Fox Nation as well as descendant of the Muscogee Creek, Pawnee and Otoe Tribes.
Cortney is a social worker and public health professional, facilitator, and trainer with extensive experience supporting tribal nations, tribal-serving organizations, and public systems. His work is grounded in mental wellness, healing, and resilience-based approaches, with deep expertise in youth development, suicide prevention, mentoring systems, and culturally responsive facilitation.
Cortney is known for his calm presence, thoughtful structure, and ability to guide groups through complex conversations with clarity and care. He brings national-level experience while remaining deeply rooted in community, relationship, and accountability.