EXPERIENCE
Prior to launching Barczak Consulting, LLC, I served as the inaugural Director of Commnity Health Equity at Ascension St. John in Tulsa, OK. I developed and implemented a grant-making strategy to reduce health disparities by supporting community-based organizations working to improve the social determinants of health; evaluated and expanded a program delivering healthcare services to low-income uninsured adults; and developed a research base for generating new interventions to improve community health outcomes. During my tenure, I grew the impact of this portfolio from $5 million to $12 million a year.
Before that, I held several positions at CAP Tulsa, a nationally recognized Head Start agency serving approximately 2,000 families using a two-generation approach. My most significant role was as the Director of Innovation Lab, where I developed and directed a new department to evaluate and integrate innovative solutions to the agency's work. Projects include the design and implementation of CareerAdvance, a cutting-edge two generation initiative to improve educational outcomes for young children and their parents; the creation of a family goal-setting tool called the Family Success Plan; a multi-year research project in collaboration with UCLA to map developmental indicators for 5,200 young children across 70 schools; human-centered design work in collaboration with IDEO.org to increase family engagement; and pilot projects around improving families' financial capability and leveraging social networks for success.
The expertise I developed at CAP Tulsa led to my appointment as a Senior Advisor in the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. from 2015-2016. There, I led the White House Rural Council's Rural IMPACT project, a nearly $1 million program that provided training and technical assistance to 10 rural and tribal communities to accelerate their two-generation work. I also led efforts to promote two-generation approaches at the federal, state, and local levels by developing and sharing best practices through panel presentations, webinars, and policy briefs.
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