McNary Group provides expert and experienced system change, policy, and leadership consulting services to organizations across the country who want to get results and achieve their goals - specifically to the non-profit, foundation and community organization sector. The mission is to get results for families and communities, especially the most vulnerable. We work to efficiently increase organizational capacity and add value to organizations. McNary Group's services include assisting organizations:- Seek statute and regulation changes- Obtain grant funding- Build networks and host effective gatherings- Understand stakeholders- Research for results- Think strategically- Develop reports and other documents to drive systems change- Evaluate and measure outcomesMethodologies include: - Advocacy campaign planning and implementation- Government relations consulting- Public policy consulting and analysis- Professional writing- Network development- Coalition building- Advocacy and coalition training- Meeting planning and facilitation- Qualitative research and listening sessions- Fund development - Grant writing- Data Analysis- Evaluation methodsMcNary Group employs a results based leadership and accountability framework in thier approach. We specialize in health related issues including oral health, obesity, and children's health access, although skills are transferable across issue areas.

Teach Social Welfare Policy and Program Evaluation for Doctorate and Master of Social Work Students. Classes explore the historical context and evolution of social welfare policy and the ways in which dominant values and contextual factors shape policy in a broad range of social welfare arenas. Emphasize analysis of poverty and income maintenance programs. Teach the interrelationship between problem conceptualization, policy options and their impact on social work practice and clients. Analysis of these interrelationships in child welfare, health, mental health and aging and the current delivery system in these four areas from a systems perspective is also covered.

Code 6.04 Advocates, Inc. is a nonpartisan 501c3 (nonprofit) organization that is focused on creating a global advocacy network through technology, to improve the effectiveness of advocacy plans and tactics in a polarized modern global society. We will use advocacy that works, helps those to rise up, that meets the outliers, and directly impacts change for the world’s most vulnerable populations building from the old to a new advocacy style – Disruptive Advocacy. We are creating the inroad for thinkers, listeners, doers and innovators to create real change that is applicable and effective in a modern-day society. We aim to train, build and connect a first of its kind advocacy network across disciplines.

Stakeholder buildingPlanning regional and national convenings and webinarsConsutling on regional oral health issues

I joined the staff at Kentucky Youth Advocates in 2002 and served in many roles at the organization. I excelled in arranging complex situations with many moving parts into cohesive statewide system changes to benefit children in Kentucky. Recent successes include leading a planning effort to improve oral health outcomes by developing a statewide oral health literacy campaign. I directed the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition. I am adept at designing, initiating and sustaining a variety of projects and programs in several portfolio arenas, including health, early childhood, and child welfare.I established critical linkages and fostered collaboration between diverse leaders at the local, state and national levels around influencing key decisions on behalf of children and families. I lead successful short and long term strategic planning efforts including various parts of the Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children. I provided leadership in the in the passage of several state level policy changes including allowing more time for children aging out of foster care to go to college, passage of the kindergarten entry dental screening bill, the inclusion of BMI collection on the school physical form, the removal of the face to face interview for children’s health insurance, and the passage of booster seat legislation in Kentucky. I also lead efforts to convene and train advocates and volunteers in sharing their point of view with decision makers. I was the the founding leader of the decade old Children’s Advocacy at the Capitol campaign as well as the designer and facilitator of a Child Advocacy Fellowship project. I collaborated with national foundations and organizations to bring critical advocacy funding into the state to make Kentucky the best place in America to be young including the Annie E Casey Foundation, the DentaQuest Foundation, Save the Children, the Ford Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The Leadership Institute for State-Based Advocates (LISA) was designed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to equip professionals from member organizations of the KIDS COUNT network with the confidence and competence to advance a child and family advocacy agenda at the federal, state and local levels to support increased investments for vulnerable children and families. This program graduated the first class of “change agents” in April 2014.