RESULTS INNOVATION LAB
Innovative partnerships, equitable outcomes.
Our Results Innovation Lab recognizes the key role that providers have in transforming policy and practice in the child welfare system.
We engage leaders from the Lutheran Services in America network in active learning cohorts together with partners from academia, philanthropy and others to work toward transformative change.
Our goal is to achieve equitable outcomes for 20,000 children and families in the United States by 2024. Since its inception, the scope of the work in the Results Innovation Lab has reached over 17,000 youth and their families.
Core to our Lab approach is to address racial bias in the child welfare system. For example, disaggregating data is key to identifying practice changes and innovations needed to eliminate racial disparities and improve outcomes.
Our Lab is proven to effectively equip providers with tools to examine their practices and empower them to activate their local community stakeholders toward achieving systemic changes that will lead to an equitable outcome in the lives of all children and families in the United States.
Lutheran Services Florida developed community partnerships and strategies that decreased the number of youth placed in out-of-home care by 25% in 2021 and 40% by 2022.
Beverly Jones
Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois
FEATURES
WHITE PAPER
Transforming Congregate Care
- Sustained exploration and evaluation
- Rigorous use of analytics and evidence-based insights
- Strengthening the capabilities and mindset of staff