Generating capacity in human services

Doing More Good . . . Together

Change & Innovation Agency (C!A®) understands the challenges involved in delivering vital safety-net benefits to children, individuals, and families in need.

We’re here to help.

Building Capacity in Human Services

Public servants at heart and by personal experience, at Change and Innovation Agency (C!A ®) we know the challenges agencies face in keeping up with ever-increasing demands and evolving expectations. As needs grow and resources shrink, people often wait longer than they should to receive crucial support services.

With decades of experience in safety-net agencies, we offer innovative solutions that go beyond the status quo to deliver real results:

· Optimize staff capacity.
· Boost efficiency and serve more clients.
· Improve accuracy and timeliness.
· Enhance first-contact resolution.
· Meet program and policy goals.
· Maximize the benefits of technology.
· Stay compliant with state and federal requirements.

The Change Agent mindset

Fresh thinking, fresh approach

As part of the Vimo® family of innovative solutions for public health and human services, C!A has specialized in modernizing government agencies since 2003, working alongside states and counties nationwide to streamline operations and radically improve the delivery of essential benefits.  

Instead of arriving with a one-size-fits-all approach, we work alongside agencies to assess and identify your specific needs, goals, and underlying barriers. We then use our unique, proven  so your teams can increase your agency’s capacity to provide important – often life-sustaining – services when and where they are needed.

It is our singular focus to reassure our clients that your goals are within reach, that chaos has an end point, peace is coming, and work will soon get better.

Let’s solve these problems…and do more good, together.

Proven results in human services

How we're transforming government agencies

40–130% More families served

85% Reduction in assessment caseloads

70% Improvement in timeliness

60% Reduction in time to certify foster families

75% Reduction in time from initial report to fully documented assessment closure

65% fewer children returning to care

90% of actions taken closer to decision points

60–80% Increase in same-day determinations

60% Faster claims

Improved fraud detection and higher yielding audits

When we met C!A, we were in a tailspin. Our caseloads increased by 35 percent, we had a massive reduction in our workforce, we were under a hiring freeze, our timeliness rates were atrocious—in some offices they were down to 28 percent. We had no resources to meet the increased demand. They came in, calm and peaceful, and gave us control over that chaos.

Pankaj Bhanot

Former Director, State of Hawaii Department of Human Services

It all comes down to timeliness — how quickly you can deliver services to those who need them. That’s what our families care about, that’s what our legislators care about. With the transition to process management, we’ve turned our cycle time around. Applications that used to take 22 or 23 days to process, now take an average of 5.
Ronald Kreher

Director Department of Health and Social Services, State of Alaska Division of Public Assistance

Transform how the work of government gets done

Using our proven and unique methods, we challenge the government’s status quo. While many focus on tackling symptoms, we focus on underlying problems (which are almost always tied to broken systems) to help you increase your capacity to do all the good our citizens need us to do in this world.

Cutting Edge Technology for Public Sector

We're reinventing the way states administer safety net programs such as Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), child care, and unemployment insurance. With our cutting-edge technology, we’re helping agencies help more people, faster, and transforming healthcare service delivery as we know it.

Manage on-site and virtual operations in one seamless solution

Accelerate eligibility decisions for quicker access to benefits

Partners for a brighter future

While C!A’s team understands the status quo of government, they are not afraid to challenge it with new thinking.  It is this new thinking that has led to our clients’ success and helped them create a new way of doing government business.

About Change & Innovation

Public servants by experience and at heart, Change & Innovation Agency’s (C!A®) team understands first-hand the challenges that you and your team face as you work to deliver vital safety net benefits to children and families in need.

Our Team

Together, we work with you and your team to increase your capacity to do more good.

It all comes down to timeliness — how quickly you can deliver services to those who need them. That’s what our families care about, that’s what our legislators care about. With the transition to process management, we’ve turned our cycle time around. Applications that used to take 22 or 23 days to process, now take an average of 5.

Ronald Kreher, Director Department of Health and Social Services,State of Alaska Division of Public Assistance

Thought Leadership

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