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Featuring: Dr. John J. Dilulio and Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies

Lutheran social ministries have a long-standing faith tradition of service in over 1,400 communities in America. Our presence and partnerships in these communities position us to build congressional and administration support for policies and funding that advance health and opportunity for all people.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. John J. Dilulio and Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies, who were instrumental in setting up the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives under the Administration of George W. Bush and reconstituting it under the Obama and Biden administrations. Their continued thought leadership informs current debate about how to make faith-based, community-driven solutions at the heart of our national response to poverty.

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Dr. John J. Dilulio is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as the Founding Faculty Director of Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program (1999-2018) and Partnership for Effective Public Administration and Leadership (2018-present). He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books including a leading textbook, American Government, 16th edition (with Meena Bose, Matthew Levendusky, and James Q. Wilson, Cengage, 2016); Bring Back the Bureaucrats (Templeton, 2014); and Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future (University of California Press, 2007). 

Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies is director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance at the Center for Public Justice. He is co-author of Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organization (Brazos, 2015), served in the Bush White House faith-based office, and advised the Obama faith-based initiative. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto.

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Featuring: Jackie Aman of Wilder Research and Rose Johnson & Sarah Mihich of Transform Consulting Group

How well are we doing at connecting rural older adults to the health, social and economic support they need to thrive? Is your team growing in its ability to center issues of race equity in your family stabilization work? These are just two of the questions being addressed for Lutheran Services in America members by innovative approaches to measuring impact in Lutheran Services in America collaboratives.

Please join us on December 7 at 2 p.m. ET to hear from evaluation partners and peers engaged in the Lutheran Services in America Rural Aging Action Network (RAAN) and Family Stabilization Initiative (FSI) about how innovative approaches to impact measurement are supporting their work on the ground.

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FSI Speakers

Jackie Aman is a Research Scientist with Wilder Research who led a recent evaluation of FSI’s Collaborative Learning Model, incorporating survey methodologies and an art-based evaluation tool, “ripple mapping.”

Katy Smith is the Director of Community Programs for AK Child and Family, where she is responsible for the supervision, oversight, and administration of all community based programming, including their participation in the Family Stabilization Initiative.

RAAN Speakers

Rose Johnson is a Project Consultant and Sarah Mihich is a Project Data Analyst with Transform Consulting Group. Together, they have led data analytics and visualization work, as well as training, for participating RAAN organizations and leaders.

Michelle Madsen is the Senior Director of Community Services with Lutheran Social Services (LSS) of South Dakota, where she provides leadership for mentoring, childcare and education services, including their RAAN, their Older Adult Resource Network.

Tanya Urquieta is the Project Program Coordinator of Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota’s RAAN, their Older Adult Resource Network. In this capacity, she leads community engagement and connects older adults to resources in and around Armour, South Dakota.

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Navigating the intricacies of a multi-generational workforce can be a challenging endeavor. Are you worried your cross-generational teams aren’t working together as effectively as they could or meeting their highest potential? Understanding the strengths and influences of each group can help you appreciate and motivate the diverse generational viewpoints in the workplace.

Learn from workplace expert Dr. Ingrid Provident of Select Rehabilitation how you can prevent generational collisions from occurring while managing to the strengths of each generation. You’ll leave with a strong understanding of the common characteristics of the different generations in the workforce, the best ways to manage and communicate across generational differences, and how to more effectively build your team around the strengths and preferences of each.

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• Ingrid Provident, Ed.D., OTR/L FAOTA, Education Specialist, Select Rehabilitation; Associate Professor, Chatham University

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• Sheila Glazov’s color brain quiz (workplace)

When decisionmakers discuss reducing racial disproportionality in the child welfare system, they frequently focus on how services are delivered, the types of services that are provided, and how the system and its resources should change to reduce structural inequities. But what if decisionmakers also centered issues of race in how services are implemented and sustained? This is the approach of the Lutheran Services in America Family Stabilization Initiative, which partnered with Chapin Hall to create a Sustainability Toolkit to release later this month. A webinar about the toolkit, Advancing Equitable Outcomes in Child Welfare: A Toolkit for Sustainability, will be held at 2 p.m. Eastern / 1 p.m. Central on Wednesday, November 1.

If you’re in the senior living industry, you’ve probably heard the buzz around value-based care (VBC). It’s a concept that seems complicated but has the potential to revolutionize the way we provide and pay for care in senior living communities. So, what is it exactly, and why should you, as a senior living operator, be interested?

Join Alan Fairbanks, owner and operator of Bickford Senior Living and president of the Value Based Care Alliance, to learn the basics of value-based care. Learn the core elements of value-based care, the opportunity for operators to get paid with VBC, and how to get started running this transformative healthcare model.

Our thanks to Serviam for their partnership!

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