Dr. Nathaniel Israel’s work focuses on helping organizations grow more effective treatment and strength development practices. For the past twenty years, he has worked together with states, counties, and providers to translate values and policies into implementation supports for effective practice. After graduate school he served as faculty at the University of South Florida. There he was involved in a national study identifying mindsets and practices that sustain systems of care.  He then took a position in San Francisco’s County Child, Youth, and Family System of Care, implementing evidence-based practices and the CANS assessment. He partnered with families and youth to author a guide on conducting collaborative assessments. He also worked on the State of California’s Performance Outcome System Committee to identify statewide indicators of system performance.  Dr. Israel then served as a Policy Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. There, he collaborated on statewide practice and outcome improvement efforts in the states of Washington, Idaho, and New York. Since 2018, he has led Union Point Group, a consultancy that partners with key stakeholders to develop more transparent and effective systems of care.