Consulting Services | WRI Solutions

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Get an outside perspective, help strategize direction, or facilitate an exchange of ideas. Let WRI Solutions put our skills and experience behind your next project, grant or change initiative.

Below is a sampling of our work. Contact us to learn more about the details of WRI's consultation process!

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Summit on Rural Victim Services

Seeking Solutions Summit on Challenges for Providing Victim Services in Rural Communities: Ensuring Sustainable and Effective Services (2024), New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS) and Lifespan of Greater Rochester

In 2024, OVS reached out to WRI for assistance in planning and facilitating their Seeking Solutions Summit on Challenges for Providing Victim Services in Rural Communities: Ensuring Sustainable and Effective Services.
To help shape the second day of the Summit, WRI surveyed registrants and collaborated with the OVS planning team to design breakout sessions that both shared information and gathered participant feedback. WRI provided support and facilitation to each of the breakout groups, and to the closing session reporting on the work. Throughout the Summit, WRI documented the entire Summit, identifing key themes, challenges, and suggested models for addressing challenges. WRI prepared a report on the Summit, incorporating findings from the post-event evaluations. The report was reviewed by OVS and can be downloaded from the link below.

2024 Summit Report

Elder Abuse Service Strategic Plan

Seeking Solutions: Elder Abuse - Creating a Clear Vision of Where We Go from Here (2021-2022), New York State Office of Victim Services and Lifespan of Greater Rochester

In 2021, WRI served as lead facilitators for a series of six online workshop meetings sponsored by the NYS Office of Victim Services and Lifespan of Greater Rochester. The meetings brought together key stakeholders from around New York State to focus on better providing for the needs of underserved populations. The recommendations were incorporated into goals and strategies for a statewide elder abuse plan.

In 2022, WRI facilitated a session to review work on the strategic plan to date and make recommendations for community engagement.

Implementation of Family First Act

Local Implementation of Family First Prevention Services Act (2018 to Present)

Through contracts with Local Department of Social Services and previous contracts with the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, WRI has helped support county-level, data-driven strategies to increase family and youth engagement, increase kinship care, decrease congregate care, and strengthen prevention services for children and families involved with the child welfare system. WRI works with county Departments of Social Services and key community stakeholders to meet each county’s individual needs and emphasize their strengths, creating plans for continuous quality improvement.

Federal Diligent Recruitment Grant

Federal Diligent Recruitment Grant (2013 to 2018), New York State Office of Children and Families (OCFS) & US Department of Health and Human Services

WRI administered a statewide Recruitment and Retention Resources survey to identify areas of opportunity and barriers to success. WRI assisted seven identified counties in NYS in creating empirical plans to track and share Key Performance Indicator data to monitor progress more effectively. WRI also developed Continuous Quality Improvement practices with the identified counties to ensure that the practices adopted during the grant period remained sustainable after its conclusion. The data-driven foster care recruitment model developed during this period gained national acclaim: https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/fostercare/recruitment/