In the Media
Tags: Leadership Updates
First Place For Youth
Sep 28, 2018
First Place for Youth has named former Department of Health and Human Services staffer Heidi McIntosh as its CEO.
McIntosh comes to FPFY from the National Association of Social Workers, where she had been serving as deputy director. Before that, she was a senior policy advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration, where she worked on the National Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSRs).
(Chronicle of Social Change)
Related Content
Blog
Written by Samantha Kalahar and Kimberly Smith This year marks Mississippi’s ninth year as a Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative […]
One example of an organization using AI to support evidence-based decision-making is First Place for Youth, an organization that helps foster youth make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood. First Place for Youth built a recommendation engine that uses precision analytics—a technology that predicts trends and behavioral patterns by discovering cause-and-effect relationships in data—to analyze program administration and case assessment data, and learn from differences in outcomes among youth.
March is ‘Stay Paid’ Month at First Place for Youth where we acknowledge all of our young people’s efforts in […]