12/01/2019
I created this fundraiser because I want to help families avoid and escape contentious, expensive, destructive litigation in Family Court. This non-profit fundraiser focuses on finding and implementing solutions for complex problems with multiperspective, adaptive problem-solving. The webpage is still a work in progress but the research is very solid, data-driven, and responsive to systemic failures that commonly occur in complex companies, societies, and anywhere human interaction can influence and undermine systemic outcomes, especially whenever a lumbering system outgrows the presumptions it was founded on as a result of external or internal factors including technology, and social innovation.
We focus on children and believe that children deserve to have hope, love, health, justice, safety, and everything else they need to thrive and that caregivers and parents should not have to go broke making that happen. We should all be able to have healthy kids, success, health, careers, justice, freedom, etc... and .We're not trying to make anyone rich, we' are trying to prevent anyone getting unjustly enriched at the expense of anyone else getting unjustly impoverished.
The 2019 giving day fundraiser is focused on Family Court dysfunction because it has far-reaching consequences that do not discriminate and impact everyone directly or indi\rectly. We tackle the issue from several perspectives including
1) the "bottom-up approach" empowers individual families in general with knowledge of the system, its presumptions, strengths, and weaknesses, so they can recognize when a case or situation is complex or not and whether it is within or beyond the scope of a limited jurisdiction resource or court and/or it requires complex solution from a general jurisdiction court,
2) "the outlier-approach" targets families already trapped in ineffective, contentious jurisdictional loops or fringe battles that may not make sense to anyone else. We help them identify specific failures that led to their situation in their place by deep data dive into the unique circumstances to hopefully help them escape the dysfunctional system with paradigm and precise focus-shifting solutions. We study every angle of outlier cases to help people them help themselves AND identify the systemic vulnerabilities that made the outlier possible
3) the "local-dynamic approach" develops resources and tools to help families and communities identify and respond to recurring patterns and problems related to failures in local implementation e.g. shifting solutions from short-term adult-focused goals to long-term, child-focused strategic plans that also serve the short- and medium-range goals of adult, and
4) "top-down systemic approach" drives legislative, administrative, and policy changes to build learning and systemic adaptation for the complex system to heal itself.
ALL our research looks at problems and solutions as they relate to blindspots. We even relate multiperspective data to fill in gaps that we must presume exist in our own limited perspective. We look for blind spots that have been systemically disregarded over time. Our models reach WAY back to before the problem became a problem when its roots were probably laid with the oversimplified solution to a complex public interest issue at the federal government level by well-intentioned people who were also susceptible to blind spots.
We put ourselves in the shoes of the people who wrote the law when it was written and in the lives that are being hurt by systemic failure today, we look for the blind spots and vulnerabilities between the past and today. Then we look WAY into the future where those blind spots might fail next with scenarios simulations. We can't foresee every possible outcome but we can definitely improve on a system that is based on presumptions made in 1910.
We believe that long-term, adaptive solutions to complex systemic problems cannot succeed if they overburden or tax any other part of the system so efficiency gains must be transparently measured and analyzed for unintended consequences. We've already identified a few critical vulnerabilities in the current methodology used to evaluate state program effectiveness so we're very confident that this research can have a meaningful impact at systemic level with very little investment simply by looking at data that is already being collected and currently being ignored.
DataToo. Financial help is appreciated but we're also looking for real data and real cases to build on our existing research and models so if you can't donate but you know someone struggling with a family court issue, we want to hear and learn from their story to help them help themselves and prevent others from falling into the same trap. Pls have contacts send questions or request a secure link for data exchange to [email protected]
