Our Mission
FIERCE Interventions empowers transition-age youth impacted by foster care through creative, trauma-informed, and equity-centered solutions. We partner with youth and youth serving systems to elevate lived experience, strengthen pathways to adulthood, and drive sustainable, youth-centered change.
Our Vision
FIERCE interventions envision a future where young people transitioning from foster care are equipped to thrive with confidence, connection, and purpose. We center youth voice, cultural identity, and resilience to transform systems, advance equity, and create pathways to belonging, opportunity, and self-directed lives.
Creative Solutions
FIERCE Interventions provides innovative consulting, training, and program design services that translate evidence-based research into immersive, human-centered experiences. FIERCE specializes in curating intentional learning environments that transform quantitative data into meaningful qualitative experiences, allowing participants to not only understand research but to experience it.
Who We Serve
FIERCE Interventions partners with counties, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and community-based organizations to support capacity-building, professional development, and program innovation. Whether through trainings, facilitated experiences, program evaluation, or strategic consultation, FIERCE’s goal is not simply knowledge
FIERCE Interventions partners with counties, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and community-based organizations to support capacity-building, professional development, and program innovation. Whether through trainings, facilitated experiences, program evaluation, or strategic consultation, FIERCE’s goal is not simply knowledge but transformation. Participants are invited to engage with research in tangible, reflective, and actionable ways, resulting in learning experiences that leave a lasting impression and inform sustainable change.
About Us
Founder
Tunisia Nelson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Doctor of Social Work (DSW) candidate with over 14 years of experience in child welfare and 3+ years in clinical practice. Tunisia specializes in trauma-informed care for underserved communities, with expertise in CBT and community-based research. Proven leader in supervision, training, and ethics consultation, serving as an ethics consultant for the California Society of Clinical Social Workers. A Doctoral Fellow with CSWE’s Minority Fellowship Program, with research interests in child welfare, mental health, and access to care. Committed to advancing policy and practice through nonprofit leadership, advocacy, and teaching.
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