Stewards of Change has written and/or published a series of articles and white papers on the role of business and technology in taking promising child welfare solutions to scale. Many of these articles were included in the annual SOC primer that accompanies each national conference.
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Confidentiality and Privacy in HHS: Myth vs. Reality
The University of Pennsylvania's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research, in collaboration with Stewards of Change, hosts think thank to explore misconceptions about information sharing among human services agencies. The goal: to clarify understanding of privacy and confidentiality rules, resolve related concerns and promote strategies to improve client outcomes.
By Amy Lipton
Technology
From Field to Fed: HHS Integration Gains Momentum
National Interoperablity 'Community of Practice' emerges to set consumer-focused standards, share best practices with Health and Human Services organizations.
By Amy Lipton
From Urgency to Innovation
By William D. O'Leary, Executive Director, Microsoft & David Meyers, Sr. Architect, Microsoft
Improving Access, Outcomes and Efficiencies through Connected Health and Human Services.
Child Welfare Technology Research Project
Research was conducted to identify key technology issues and opportunities within child welfare for AECF and the industry as a whole, on a strategic and tactical level.
Megacommunities to Solve Thorny Problems
Today’s problems often feel particularly complex. Often, they’re simply too large for any one authority, group or sector to solve.
Real-Time Data Enhances Human Service Delivery
By Marty Elisco, Motorola, Inc.
Mobile computing through handheld devices holds promise for improving the quality of family services, caseworker productivity, and on-the-job satisfaction.
Nonprofit Improves Services to California Families with Collaboration Software
Aspiranet operates 35 core programs that deliver services to more than 10,000 California children and families a year. Accomplishing this mission requires caring, skillful caseworkers and integrated information technology. To remain effective, Aspiranet deployed Windows® Sharepoint® Services, helping to improve collaboration among caseworkers and enhance the services the organization delivers to communities.
Marketing
Market Research Dispels 5 Foster Care Myths
By Daniel Stein
Consumer studies on child welfare consistently debunk false notions about foster parenting and promote action for better outcomes.
Marketing the Foster Care Adoption Message
By Rita L. Soronen
To be agents of change in the lives of children, who through no fault of their own are left without a family, we must do more than say, “Consider adoption.”
Microtargetting: Streamlining the Search for Potential Foster Parents
Using business intelligence technology to gather and analyze data about consumer concerns and media preferences, marketers can fine-tune their efforts to reach prospective child welfare participants.
Got Branding?
By Michael Smith
Consistent messaging can increase public and political support for innovation in child welfare, but the right business and communications strategies are essential to overcome fragmentation and territoriality.
System Changes
Time after Time
by Sid Gardner
Collaboration is the managerial and leadership challenge of the 21st Century. Not only in health and human services, but in all the important public tasks- foreign policy, national security, law enforcement, fighting the diseases that cripple and destroy us- the paramount human task is putting disconnected pieces of programs and remedies together so they help people better than if they remained fragmented.