Our Impact Areas Include:

Youth Criminal Legal Reform

CoLab engages in system and multi-sector projects to improve the responsiveness of existing juvenile justice practices to youth developmental needs as well as working to build upstream community capacity to avoid criminal legal process altogether, when possible.

Scalable Mental Health Solutions

For too long, child and family mental health intervention and services innovation have neglected scalability as a design consideration. We work closely with healthcare agencies, community groups, funders, and policymakers to develop scalable approaches to workforce development, leadership support, and payment reform.

Policy Codesign

Policy Codesign is an emerging area of practice and science to improve persistent problems in policy development and implementation. Our team is collaborating with national and international design, evidence-synthesis, and health equity experts in developing and testing these models. Policy codesign is an approach to multi-sector knowledge sharing and relationship
building that sets the stage for more effective implementation.