Senior Project Director
Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health at Boston University
Bethlyn works as a Senior Project Director and Co-PI at the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health at the Boston University School of Social Work. With 24+ years of experience, her work and training lie at the intersection of social work and public health, partnered with people living with complex health and social conditions across the lifecourse. Her projects center disability justice, building capacity of systems of care to partner with people with lived experience to meet their essential, interconnected health, social, and community needs. She brings direct experience in systems innovation and applied implementation science, including: health equity strategies; financing levers and stakeholder alignment; collaborative partnerships that center person/family colleagues at all levels; intervention design, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability; dissemination and knowledge translation; workforce development; and interprofessional education, training, and technical assistance (TA) with diverse stakeholders as co-learners, inclusive of people with lived expertise. Current projects include serving as a consortium partner for the HRSA-funded Blueprint National Center led by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and being on the core team for the DIVERSE Collective to identify systems of care solutions for multiply marginalized children with disabilities, funded by LPFCH. She was co-editor of the recently released Pediatrics journal supplement on learnings from the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Advance Care for CMC (CMC CoIIN), and Co-PI of a HRSA Emerging Issues grant to build workforce capacity and nontraditional strategic partnerships.
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