Policy & program design
Translating research into policies and programs that hold up in the real world of clinics, classrooms, and communities.
- Policy analysis & option development
- Program models & implementation plans
- Cross-sector strategy
Child & adolescent health · K–12 education
Where a child's health and learning meet.
We help agencies, school systems, and foundations turn evidence into policies and programs that ensure every young person thrives.
How we see it
Two systems, one child — and where they meet, something grows.
What we do
From the evidence to the decision.
We work across the whole arc — designing what should happen, testing whether it worked, and making the case that moves it forward.
Evaluation
Measuring what matters — so you know whether a program is reaching young people and actually moving outcomes.
- Evaluation design & logic models
- Mixed-methods & outcome studies
- Data for continuous improvement
Advocacy materials
Turning findings into briefs, testimony, and materials that make the case to the people who decide.
- Policy briefs & fact sheets
- Legislative & budget testimony
- Framing & messaging support
Our approach
A child's health and a child's education are not separate problems — so we don't treat them separately.
Evidence first, ideology never
Every recommendation traces back to what the data and the field actually show.
Built to be implemented
We design for the constraints of real budgets, staffing, and systems — not the whiteboard.
Equity as the baseline
The kids who are hardest to reach are the ones the work has to reach first.
Partners, not vendors
We work alongside your team, leaving you with capacity you keep after the engagement ends.
About
Built at the intersection of health and learning.
Health & Education Policy Partners was founded on a simple observation: the systems that shape a young person's life — health care, families, and schools — rarely work in concert. Each holds only part of the picture, and children too often fall through the gaps between them. Closing those gaps is the work.
The practice is led by our Principal, who works across child and adolescent health and K–12 education: translating research and on-the-ground reality into sound policy, designing programs that agencies and districts can actually run, and building the evaluation and advocacy that keep good ideas moving. Every engagement gets senior attention from first conversation to final deliverable.
We deliberately take on a small number of clients at a time. That keeps the work close, the advice honest, and the focus squarely on what changes for kids.
Who we serve
The people shaping young lives.
State & local agenciesHealth · education · human services
School systemsDistricts, charters, networks
Foundations & fundersStrategy & portfolio evaluation
Nonprofits & advocatesPrograms & campaigns
Get in touch
Have a program, policy, or problem to work through?
Tell us what you're trying to change for kids. We'll tell you honestly whether — and how — we can help.