InsightFormation provided consulting to help with the launch of Restore Hope Arkansas, a new non-profit organization launched in 2016 to help address the intertwined issues of Child Welfare/Foster Care and Incarceration/Recidivism.  

After six years, the impact of the strategy and successful strategy implementation is an inspiring example of how strategy maps can support collective impact success.

In the counties where this approach was piloted, parental reunification rose to over 80% and hundreds of children stayed out of the foster care system as the strategy supported the biological parents in addressing the challenges that may have otherwise resulted in the children entering into a system that was already stretched beyond its capacity.  

Even though rates of violent crime were soaring in most of Arkansas, Group A crimes in Fort Smith were down 6% during 2021. (This group includes assaults, homicides, breaking and entry, fraud, kidnapping, vehicle theft and sex offenses.)

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