L³ P Associates, LLC has extensive and diverse experience in providing consultative services, facilitating strategic planning sessions, and supporting information system implementation. These are some examples of our recent experiences:

At the Community level—We have worked closely with over 125 community agencies across the nation helping them to become 'managed care ready', addressing services integration, quality improvement, finance, information systems, and marketing.

In Hawaii we helped a large community based agency with three distinct service arms, create an integrated approach to the collection and management of information. Through our IBCPR efforts we walked the agency through the assessment and streamlining of existing data collection processes, the redesign of their inefficient data collection processes and the selection of an information system using our Business Scenario Design Process.

In one community in Illinois we assisted 30 agencies in the creation of an integrated system of care governed by a collaborative of community stakeholders. Today this network serves the child welfare, juvenile justice, SED, and TANF populations, under risk, performance-based contracts with government purchasers. A critical aspect of this effort was to define the information system functionalities required under this risk based financing arrangement, to craft the RFP for the community collaborative, and to assist in the system negotiations.

We assisted a Kansas community-based agency move from a traditional strategic planning model to a more innovative approach where goals and indicators were established based on a careful review of the agency's historical standards of performance. This caused the strategic planning process to come alive for staff of the agency.

In Colorado we assisted three large faith-based organizations in forming a statewide coalition to pursue managed care contracts. This involved the creation of an integrated approach to intake, assessment, service planning, quality improvement and utilization review. This also involved charting the data flow from case opening to case closure, using this information to define the system specifications and develop the RFP.

In Michigan we assisted thee large integrated community-based agencies prepare for the implementation of managed care technology by conducting Integrated Clinical And Business Process Redesign (IBCPR) reducing all redundancies and inefficiencies in paperwork and in the data compilation process. The agency has successfully implemented their new information system.

At the State Level—We have been very active in promoting state-level system reform. We have provided technical assistance to public agencies struggling to develop performance-based contracts with counties or community providers. We have facilitated strategic planning sessions, helping states better manage limited resources. We have developed federal waiver applications to support state's system reform efforts. We have worked extensively with state associations of child serving agencies, compiling utilization, cost and outcome data to be used in lobbying efforts.

In the state of Colorado we wrote the Title IV E waiver moving the child welfare system into a managed system of care with case rate financing and performance based contracting.

In the state of Iowa we wrote the 1915 (b) waiver moving the Medicaid RTSS services for child welfare into a managed system of care.

In the state of Iowa we wrote the Title IVE waiver moving the contracting model with community-based providers to "results based" purchasing.

In the state of Missouri we facilitated the planning process to develop a transportation plan for the TANF program. We also assisted in defining the data elements (building a Data Catalog) required for implementation of the transportation program and assisted in defining the functionalities of the information system.

In the state of Colorado we worked with the State Association Of Child And Family Serving Agencies to research the cost and service utilization trends, agency turnover and capacity issues in preparation for the 2000 legislative session.

At the National level, we have provided consultation, training, technical assistance, and prepared training manuals, proposals, policy analyses, and large-scale case studies for many public and private organizations. These include the Annie E. Case Foundation, Catholic Charities USA, Center for Health Care Strategies, Child Welfare League of America, the National Association for Family-Based Services, and the National Alliance for Business. We also serve on the core consultation team for the National Resource Center for Permanency Planning and National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice.

We are entering into our third 12-month National teleconference series for Catholic Charities USA on managed care readiness for the not-for-profit agency.

We were funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies to write two monographs addressing the implementation and planning phases involved in bringing managed care technologies to the child welfare system.

We were hired by the National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning to conduct a national survey on the status of Concurrent Planning in state child welfare systems.

We were hired by the Child Welfare League of America to conduct training on the characteristics and competencies of leadership for the not for profit social service agency, in today's competitive, managed care environment.

We were hired by the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice to write their position paper on Conducting a Family Centered Assessment.

We were hired by the Learning Systems Group of Washington DC to write an analysis of the strategies that should be employed by TANF workers in dealing with Substance Abuse, Mental Health Issues, Domestic Violence and Learning Disorders of individuals struggling to obtain and or maintain employment.