PAST PROJECTS
Here are examples of major projects I have led in recent years.
CareerAdvance
As Director of the Innovation Lab at CAP Tulsa, a 600-person agency serving approximately 2,000 families, I led the design and implementation of a model that integrates high-quality early education for children in a family with simultaneous career development pathways and supports for their parents. The intervention was developed in partnership with academic experts and delivered through an unprecedented collaboration of four education service delivery partners. CareerAdvance became one of the very first projects awarded funding by a federal Health Profession Opportunities Grant, which provided $10 million over 5 years to support the program.
Rural IMPACT
Partly based on my role with CareerAdvance, I was invited by the US Department of Health and Human Services to lead a year-long comprehensive training and technical assistance program that helped 10 rural and tribal communities across the country lift up and refine local two-generation program approaches. Services included assisting communities in building a logic model and action plan; identifying and addressing their unique public policy barriers; facilitating learning and collaboration across sites; coordinating a team of coaches to assist the sites; and serving as liaison between the communities and federal evaluators. This project was commissioned by the White House Rural Council and involved the participation of 10 federal offices, the National Community Action Partnership, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Parents as Partners
I led a cross-departmental team at CAP Tulsa to improve how the early childhood program could more fully engage parents as partners in their child's and family's success. This work included clearly defining family outcomes and success metrics; creating a Family Success Plan tool to help families set and achieve goals; and aligning all marketing materials and messaging to promote CAP Tulsa's two-generation approach to family success.
Community Health Equity
Catalyst Strategy (CHECS)
Hired by Ascension St. John Health System in Tulsa to review a healthcare program for uninsured low-income adults, I ultimately expanded the system's community-facing work by creating and implementing a multi-million dollar grant-making program focused on reducing health disparities in Tulsa. In its first two years CHECS awarded just under $25 million to community-based organizations working to improve the social determinants of health for underserved populations.
Healthy Women, Healthy Futures
In partnership with the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing in Tulsa, I helped design and launch this inter-conception health program to reduce premature births and infant mortality by improving the physical, emotional, social, dental, and vision health of lower-income, generally uninsured women of child-bearing age. The program offered moms with children enrolled at CAP early childhood education centers access to primary care, health education and care coordination, and healthy lifestyle classes.
Performance Measurement
for the City of Tulsa
As the Deputy Director of Policy, Research and Analysis in the Office of the Mayor, I worked with the Deputy Mayor to create a performance measurement system for all city departments. Prior to that, I served as the Policy Administrator for the Tulsa City Council, where I developed the Council's first Quality of Life comparative measurement tool and a performance-based method to allocate federal grant funds.
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