National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s (NCCD) Alex Busansky and Kathy Park available to discuss Pay for Success models and NCCD’s Pay for Success projects
Salt Lake City, UT – On January 21st, the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation hosted its third and final regional summit on Pay for Success. The regional summits – in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Chicago, Illinois, and Salt Lake City, Utah – sought to highlight and advance regional activity underway across the country, build the longer term Pay for Success infrastructure to catalyze future projects and facilitate an open, transparent dialogue among public, private and philanthropic stakeholders.
Pay for Success projects bring together government agencies, private investors, service providers, and other stakeholders to finance, implement, and evaluate programs that have proven to be effective in meeting an identified social need.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) President Alex Busansky and Vice President Kathy Park, both experts on Pay for Success and its application in criminal and juvenile justice systems and social welfare systems, participated at each summit and moderated discussions on NCCD’s Pay for Success projects. The Pay for Success approach combines NCCD’s commitment to innovation and its expertise in evidence-based problem solving.
In October 2014, NCCD received a Pay for Success grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service’s (CNCS) Social Innovation Fund (SIF). NCCD’s PFS project aims to assess feasibility and develop Pay for Success capacity in jurisdictions from the states with the highest rates of racial and ethnic disparities in these systems. Those states are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, DC and Wisconsin.
Currently, in collaboration with Third Sector Capital Partners and two California counties, NCCD is also exploring the feasibility of two promising Pay for Success projects: one to implement a restorative justice project that has already proven successful at keeping youth out of detention by directing them to programs that reduce recidivism; and the second to identify child welfare-involved youth who are at increased risk of delinquency and targeting prevention services to prevent juvenile justice system crossover.
The following National Council on Crime and Delinquency Staff are Available for Comment or Background on Pay for Success Models:
Alex Busansky, President
Alex Busansky joined NCCD as president of the organization in 2010. In 2011 he also served as a member of the Los Angeles County Commission on Jail Violence. He is a former prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, attorney for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, executive director of the Vera Institute’s Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, and founding director of Vera’s Washington, DC, office. Alex is an expert on creative research, policy, and programming in justice and social welfare systems; and under his leadership, the organization has expanded its leadership and work on Pay for Success models.
Kathy Park, Vice President
As vice president of NCCD, Kathy Park provides oversight and accountability for programmatic efforts and organizational operations across NCCD’s offices in Madison, Wisconsin; Oakland, California; and Washington, DC. Most recently she has played a key role in NCCD’s Pay for Success feasibility assessment projects in California and its Pay for Success grant from the CNCS Social Innovation Fund. Kathy has devoted her entire professional career to making a difference in the lives of adults and children impacted by abuse and neglect. Her experience includes provision of direct services, technical assistance and training, and research and policy in child and adult protection.
About the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
NCCD promotes just and equitable social systems for individuals, families, and communities through research, public policy, and practice. For more information about NCCD, visit www.nccdglobal.org.
