CREATING A SOCIAL INNOVATION’S MOVEMENT
WITHIN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA STORY
PLEASE NOTE: This event is sold out.
The Social Innovations Journal in partnership with Bucks County Human Services, Woods Services, Magellan Healthcare, and Independence Blue Cross Foundation is pleased to host this SYMPOSIUM on Tuesday, Sept. 26 that will examine successful and innovative models and partnerships within the Bucks County, PA Region as an example of how health and human services organizations are innovating across the country. This edition specifically explores new innovative models of care for:
- Aging Populations
- Mental and Behavioral Health
- Children and Youth
- Drug and Alcohol
- Physical and Developmental Disabilities
“Health and human serving system leaders are discarding the old ways of doing business in favor of new approaches that are innovative, efficient, effective, and responsive to the needs and demands of a dynamic and rapidly changing society. We are shifting from a reactive and crisis-oriented services delivery model to one that focuses “upstream” and better enables all of us to live to our full potential and to more effectively identify and address root causes when we do encounter roadblocks along the way.” (American Public Health and Human Services Association, November 2016)
Health and human services agencies along with their nonprofit and community partners in counties around the country have started to approach traditional long standing societal challenges differently. They are capitalizing on public/private partnerships; breakthrough technologies; brokering unique cross-sector partnerships; blending funding sources, and applying family-centered and community-based approaches to find innovative solutions with the expectation that these will lead to efficiencies and better client outcomes. Ultimately, regional health and human services agencies, collectively, are shaping a new ecosystem across sectors and systems that will align services, integrate data systems, leverage technologies and create system transformation.
PLEASE JOIN US! As we have limited space capacity (100 participants) we ask that you only register if you are confident that you will attend.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Torres
CEO/Co-Publisher
Tine Hansen Turton
President & CEO of Woods Services
Co-Publisher
Jonathan Rubin
Human Services Director
Bucks County
Agenda
8:30 AM
Registration/Networking Light Refreshments
9:00 AM
WELCOME
Nicholas Torres, SIJ Publisher
Tine Hansen-Turton, CEO, Woods Services and SIJ Publisher
Charles Martin, Chairman, Bucks County Board of Commissioners
Jon Rubin, Human Services Director Bucks County
9:15 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tracy Wareing Evans, President and CEO, the American Public Human Services Association
Current state of Human Services/Human Services Value Curve and the Value of and future for Public-Private partnerships
9:45 AM
CONSUMER VOICE AND PERSPECTIVE
Lessons learned from the consumer perspective: Bonnie Healey
10:00 AM
PARTNERSHIP INNOVATION STORIES
Bucks County: Connect. Assess. Refer. Engage. Support. (BCARES) program: Margie Rivera, Associate Director, Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission and Eric Stark, Executive Director, Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership
Using the Sequential Intercept Model to build collaboration and support community engagement: Christina Finello, Deputy Director, Bucks County Human Services
Foundations Summer Internship Program: Ron Bernstein, Executive Director, Foundations Community Partnership
10:15 AM
CRITICAL THINKING ROUNDTABLES
11:00 AM
PANEL REACTION
Moderated by Tine Hansen-Turton, CEO Woods Services
Panelists
Tracy Wareing Evans, President and CEO, American Public Human Services Association
Audrey Tucker, CEO Family Service Association of Bucks County
Dr. Mark Hoffman, Ed.D., Executive Director Bucks County Intermediate Unit
Jon Rubin, Director of Human Services, Bucks County
Heather Major, Independece Blue Cross Foundation
11:45 AM
CLOSING REMARKS/NEXT STEPS
Tine Hansen-Turton & Jon Rubin
