The Transformational Change Partnership provides county health and human services teams and their partners with knowledge, learning experiences and implementation support to achieve transformative system change. The Partnership emphasizes human-centered design, community engagement and a focus on outcomes as essential to developing preventative, comprehensive and cost-effective care that improves lives and reduces disparities.

The Partnership is designed to help county agencies successfully implement the numerous current state initiatives and reforms in ways that improve operations, relationships with community partners and client and community results. It engages a cohort of multi-level teams from counties and their community partners over nine months to facilitate shared learning and to support a specific project in ways that make it easier to implement required changes while growing the team’s capabilities to lead and sustain transformative system-level improvements. 

Blog Posts

Blog posts include ongoing learning and insights from partnership, which shares effective practices to advance cross-sector community and public policy administration system change. Backed by interdisciplinary research, the blog presents practical actions that community members, government and non-government practitioners and policymakers can use to support reimagining, diagnosis and implementation of public systems. To that end, collective and coordinated action leads to strengthening public infrastructure to advance a healthy and meaningful system of democracy.

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Members of the Partnership

University of the Pacific is the oldest chartered university in California. Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento has been awarding juris doctorate degrees for nearly a century and many of its alumni work in or closely with government agencies. McGeorge’s public policy program awards Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy degrees with an emphasis on state and local ​​government. 

The TCP curriculum is developed and delivered by faculty with experience leading public sector initiatives, advising public agencies and creating academic programs to support public sector leaders, as well as experience in state and local governance, health and human services policy and executive leadership in county behavioral health. 

Third Sector Capital Partners is a national technical assistance nonprofit helping to unlock possibility, confront inequity and catalyze change to the benefit of the people and places our government and community-based and philanthropic partners serve. It advises our government agencies on effective ways to reshape their policies, systems and services toward better outcomes for all people, no matter their races, backgrounds or circumstances. 

The California Institute for Behavioral Health Services (CIBHS) is a behavioral health consultancy for systems, organizations and providers who desire to improve outcomes for people with mental health and substance use challenges. CIBHS has managed the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute in partnership with the University of Southern California for the past 25 years (including real projects as mechanisms to learn change management, practice improvement, other administrative and clinical skills to support organizational efficiency, growth and quality improvement).  

The Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing is focused on early mental health support and exceptional clinical care, educational and training initiatives and mental health and technology partnerships. The team has expertise in statewide behavioral health training initiatives across multiple disciplines and components of the behavioral health continuum of care. It is housed in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and is committed to spearheading a new national vision for adolescent and young adult wellness and mental health. By supporting the creation of an innovative health system and a new culture of health for the adolescent and young adult population, we hope to support our young people to navigate their transition to adulthood and realize their full potential.  

The Steinberg Institute is an independent, nonprofit public policy institute dedicated to advancing sound public policy and inspiring leadership on issues of mental health and substance use.