Creating value through collaboration
Smart Policy Works LLC is a trusted partner for governments agencies and community-level providers on initiatives to align public systems and optimize local, state and federal dollars. We help partners define problems AND build solutions. We leverage our expertise to help communities and government partners align problems with solutions so we have the right system, with the right services at the right time.
Smart Policy Works is a convener, facilitator, and subject matter expert, working with partners who are also at the forefront of policy systems change, services interventions, and housing interventions for medically complex populations and overburdended public services.
Previous collaborations have involved federal and state agencies and the private sector:
- Appointed by President Barack Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative Public Health
- Contractor with 39 states the National Consortium for Health Systems Development, a state-to-state technical assistance collaborative that developed cross-agency approaches to employment and training for people with disabilities
- Developed the multimillion-dollar Think Beyond the Label campaign, an innovative effort directed at corporations to change the conversation on employment of people with disabilities
- Launched the Medicaid Leadership Group, an advocacy organization of policymakers, legislators, advocates, providers, and consumers that worked with the State of Illinois to improve the health care system
- Co-founded the Make Medicare Work Coalition which brought together more than 700 people representing 270 agencies and organizations to promote access to affordable health care options in Illinois
Let’s achieve change together