ALIA COHORT GUIDE
Influencing the future of the child welfare system by operationalizing the UnSystem, a new child welfare system, with 30+ child welfare innovators across 5 jurisdictions and 14 counties.
Guiding change, grounding innovation, creating the process, and challenging agency leaders to do more and become bolder and more courageous through rapid prototyping, experimentation and rapid cycle innovation to maximize impact.
Ideating, designing, testing, failing, and retrying transformative, radical, ideas.
Scaling and delivering evidence based research and proof of concept to be highlighted by Jerry Milner, Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, in Congress as the national model for child welfare.
Establishing Alia as the answer to child welfare reform in America.
Developing methods to measure our impact through evaluation maps, consolidation, mining our evaluation maps, all-group report-outs, change frameworks, presentations, worksheets, and in-depth peer-to-peer, all-group consultations.
Identifying and evaluating how can we do more, bigger, faster?
Shifting judicial landscape with judges and attorneys to inform a trauma-responsive approach judicial processes.
Organizing events, webinars, and in person talks with legal and financial officials to develop strong partnerships.
Identifying and encouraging the highest potential agencies and counties to adopt the UnSystem model and join the Innovation cohort.
Developing public awareness campaign
Informing five publications, two case studies on process, learning, and outcomes and three research briefs on the economic cost of child welfare.
Learning how to write effective Op Ed’s to maximize impact and reach.
Alia Innovation
February 2019 - Current
Minnesota, Minneapolis