Learn more about how the 100 Families Initiatives has dramatically reduced the number of kids going into the foster care system and significantly increased the reunification rates with biological families by mobilizing a coordinated system of support to help families move from crisis to self-sufficiency and stability.  

Learn specific ways that a coalition in Alberta, Canada is overcoming numerous barriers to change the family justice system based on understanding brain science and techniques for social transformation. 

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 and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing.   He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.   

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”.

Diana Lowe, QC is a lawyer with 35 years of experience which includes legal practice, research, and reform of the civil and family justice systems in Canada, and most recently as Executive Counsel to the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. Diana has been appointed to the Queen’s Council (QC), an appointment of honor for having demonstrated exceptional merit and exemplary service to the Canadian justice system through her work in the federal public service. Diana recently retired from the Court and established a consulting practice - “Re-imagining Justice”. She continues to support the Reforming the Family Justice System (RFJS) initiative in Alberta, and also works with other jurisdictions interested in justice system transformation.

The RFJS is a multi-year, multi-sector collaboration, designed to effect system-wide change in the family justice system in Alberta, based on brain science and Adverse Childhood Experiences. The RFJS is seeking to shift the focus in family justice matters away from adversarial, legal responses, to making supports available to assist families with the social, relationship, parenting, and financial issues that arise in family matters. The outcome collaborators are seeking is family well-being, which they define as “Helping Families Thrive”.

Karen Phillips is the Associate Director of Restore Hope. Karen is a Certified Grant Management Specialist by the NGMA and a nationally certified Community Housing Development Organization Specialist. Although she has 23 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 has won multiple awards for program implementation and leadership including the ACHANGE Leadership Award, HUD Special Recognition, and Best Overall Program from Arkansas Community Action Agency Association.