How HopeHub and a Smart Justice Approach are Saving Families, Taxpayer Dollars, and Our Future
Join us for a webinar that introduces a remarkable non-profit organization, Restore Hope Arkansas. We are highlighting this organization because of the impressive progress they’ve made under some of the most challenging circumstances. The issues of incarceration, recidivism, child welfare, foster care, and helping families deal with poverty have stubbornly resisted most efforts to move outcomes in the right direction. But, for Restore Hope, with their 100 Families initiatives, the HopeHub software, and the Smart Justice approach, the results have been consistently positive.
Early in the development of the strategy for Restore Hope Arkansas, a collective impact initiative was established to address the intertwined issues of justice-involved parents and the child welfare system. It became clear that there was a need for a shared case management system to help coordinate all the different ways that the community partners could help people move from crisis to stability and on to thriving. The application that they inherited and expanded is now called HopeHub. This webinar will introduce the functionality of HopeHub and how it can be used in many different situations where improved collaboration is needed to help people struggling with poverty and other challenges get on a sustainable path.
The strategy is built around an approach called Smart Justice. The emphasis is no longer based on punishment and deterrence, rather it’s based on compassion and trauma-informed support for people who are seeking to improve their lives. This new approach has a wide range of benefits—from reducing crime and saving taxpayer dollars to breaking the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
The webinar will also introduce another key innovation, HopeHub. This cutting-edge technology is offered by a non-profit organization that doesn’t rely on licensing revenue so the cost of deploying HopeHub is substantially lower than what is typically the case with for-profit entities.
Join this informative webinar to learn about a Collective Impact success story which employed the tools and techniques now being expanded around the country.
Speakers
Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration. His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations, papers, and webinars.
Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017). His recommendations for using strategy maps is featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration. Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.
Paul Chapman, Director of Restore Hope Arkansas. Paul is the Director Of Restore Hope. He left a career as an executive at Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock where he oversaw local and global rehabilitation and development efforts as well as directing grants through a member supported fund. He has been personally and professionally engaged in fostering, adopting, and prison reentry for twelve years.
Karen Phillips, Associate Director, Restore Hope Arkansas. Restore Hope is part of Governor Hutchinson’s Initiative to reduce the number of children in foster care and recidivism. She has 22 years of experience in community development and housing. Karen is a Certified Grant Management Specialist by the NGMA and a nationally certified Community Housing Development Organization Specialist. Although she has 22 years of experience in grant management, housing development, and program design and implementation, her God-given calling and passion is for families. As a foster parent, Karen was able to help all of the children in her home safely reunite with their parents and has been working with families in Arkansas to preserve and reunite families ever since. She served on the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Advisory Council for 9 years, currently serves on the Opioid Task Force and the Old Fort Homeless Coalition Board of Directors and consults with organizations on housing development projects, both large and small. She has won multiple awards for program implementation and leadership including the ACHANGE Leadership Award, HUD Special Recognition, and Best Overall Program from ACAAA. Karen has two adult married children, a new grandson, and two recently graduated teenagers and has been mom to many other children and teens throughout the years.
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