REMARKS
Innovation and future improvements in ACS preventative services
1:23:51
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51 sec
Deputy Commissioner Luisa Linares discusses ongoing efforts to innovate and improve preventative services. She highlights the need for flexibility in funding and provider innovation.
- ACS is considering changes to the funding structure to allow for more innovation
- Some providers have requested and been approved for additional services, such as tutoring programs
- Linares expresses a desire to expand successful innovations across the system
- She acknowledges that ACS is in constant conversations about how to best improve and expand services
Luisa Linares
1:23:51
We also need to think about our our funding structure, to figure out where there's room for innovation.
1:23:59
I can tell you that we have providers, for instance, that have since my appointment in this role, have they have requested things like we want to do tutoring, and we were able to approve a request for tutoring program for one specific agency.
1:24:16
So while that's not a that's not a, a service that a a a youth, a student can use across the system, we do have one provider that using their thinking, their innovation, and the internal resources was able to say, we can provide this to our prevention program.
1:24:35
Ideally, we would like to be able to do that across the board, and I think we are in constant conversations thinking about how can we do that best.
