Entrepreneurship and TASCConnecting the Dots

May 2014

Entrepreneurship and TASC:Connecting the Dots

Pamela F. RodriguezPresident and Chief Executive Officer

Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC)

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What is TASC model?

A technology for

• communicating information between players who speak different languages and have different goals;

• assessment, service access, service matching and retention experts

• care management

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What are entrepreneurial skills? To keep going in spite of setbacks.

• Screening for opportunity

• Goal orientation

• Self esteem

• Need to achieve

• Internal locus of control

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill

• Optimism

• Courage

• Tolerance to ambiguity

• Fire inside

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What’s happening in our environment? What have you learned at this conference that might push or lead you to be entrepreneurial?

• Health Care Reform

• HIT

• Integration with Primary Care

• Criminal Justice Reform

• Medicaid expansion

• Workforce shortages

• Research, EBPs

• RNR

• Socially conscious investing

• Pay for Performance

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Examples of TASC Adaptations and Entrepreneurial Experiences

From the audience—• Investment in IT• HCR• Trauma• Reentry• Etc…

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What are you going to do? Again—facilitated examples from the audience

• As an organization• As a leader• As an employee• As a professional in the field• As an investor• As a member of a community• As a person who works with clients that we ask to be goal oriented, optimistic, entrepreneurial?

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• Are you walking the talk? Do you feel it—the fire inside? Examples of A Safe Haven, Amity, Delancy Street, other TASC colleagues? In the beginning, when there wasn’t much research or a path, it was a mystery. Today, there are many who have gone before. There is an evidence base. There are models. If you are inclined to be entrepreneurial as a TASC program, or as a provider of services to clients in the justice system—there is much here to guide you. I hope you’ve been encouraged by these examples.