2024 TCOM Conference Spotlight

2024 TCOM Conference Spotlight

Listening to Transformation Frustration: Rethinking Functions, Fidelity, and Funding

by Nathanial Israel, Ph.D.

‘Transformation’ has been the explicit goal of policymakers for the past twenty years. Yet nearly all evidence points to broad and systemic failures to provide access to effective behavioral health treatment to America’s youth and families. Listening to the frustrations of families, youth, treatment providers and public administrators provides us with actions to re-set the course for genuine change. This keynote describes a series of practical actions for system and interpersonal transformation.?

About Dr. Israel

Dr. Nathaniel Israel ’s work focuses on helping organizations grow more effective treatment and strength development practices. For the past twenty years, he has worked together with states, counties and providers to translate values and policies into implementation supports for effective practice.??

His initial work focused on disrupting cycles of homelessness and poverty in Detroit.?

After graduate school he served as faculty at the University of South Florida. There he was involved in a national study identifying mindsets and practices that sustain systems of care.???

He then took a position in San Francisco’s County Child, Youth, and Family System of Care, implementing evidence-based practices and the #CANS assessment. He partnered with families and youth to author a guide on conducting collaborative assessments. He also worked on the State of California’s Performance Outcome System Committee to identify statewide indicators of system performance.???

Dr. Israel then served as a Policy Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. There, he collaborated on statewide practice and outcome improvement efforts in the states of Washington, Idaho, and New York. Since 2018, he has led Union Point Group, a consultancy that partners with key stakeholders to develop more transparent and effective systems of care.?


The 20th. Annual TCOM Conference

Please visit the TCOM Conference Page to learn more about the 2024 TCOM Conference, how to register, and join the celebration of 20 years of collaboration with our TCOM community.




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