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Preventing Trafficking in Our Most Vulnerable Population: Youth

Preventing Trafficking in Our Most Vulnerable Population: Youth

Human trafficking thrives on chaos and desperation in communities already ravaged by ills like poverty, addiction, etc. While we cannot know for certain the effects of COVID – 19 on sex and labor trafficking in real-time, we can almost accurately predict that communities will be more vulnerable to violence, abuse, and exploitation in the wake of this worldwide economic and social disruption. As the economic fallout of the pandemic deepens and further exacerbates vulnerabilities, communities should anticipate that millions more may fall into labor and sex trafficking in the aftermath of this crisis.

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Creating a Blueprint to Assess and Combat Human Trafficking in States

Creating a Blueprint to Assess and Combat Human Trafficking in States

Across the country, state governments face the growing and complex challenge of fighting human trafficking within their jurisdiction. This may happen separately in law enforcement organizations or within organizations that provide services to victims. While collaboration among agencies is growing quickly, in order to address the complexities of human trafficking states and their counties must use a disciplined approach that assesses the scope of the problem and the specific gaps within their jurisdiction.

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Christine Wisniewski
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Building a Better Workplace: Recent Trends in Professional Responsibility

Building a Better Workplace: Recent Trends in Professional Responsibility

While misconduct, harassment, and other types of behavior detrimental in the workplace are not new, the public and private sectors are developing innovative and creative ways to tackle them. Recent trends in professional responsibility highlight how behavioral science, data-driven decision-making, risk management, and technology assist Government agencies and their professional responsibility functions address adverse workplace behavior.

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Arc Aspicio
A First-of-Its-Kind Behavioral Science Bowl

A First-of-Its-Kind Behavioral Science Bowl

Adjusting to a socially distanced work environment is not easy. As time continues to pass, people are looking for ways to connect, brainstorm, and learn something new. To bridge this divide, we deemed May as the “Behavioral Science Month” at Arc Aspicio and rolled out the inaugural, first-of-its-kind Behavioral Science Bowl. As a result, more than 60% of our company jumped into the contest to solve interesting problems and collaborate with others.

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Marathon Remote Working: Preparing for the Long-Term Run

Marathon Remote Working: Preparing for the Long-Term Run

When the stay-at-home orders and mass remote work became the norm to combat COVID-19, the country unknowingly began a marathon with a sprint. As weeks have turned into a new normal for the knowledge economy, what seemed temporary has become a disruption for business as usual. And yet, full time remote and hybrid workers have been winning the remote work marathon for some time.

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Using Behavioral Science in Government Communications to Improve Outcomes

Using Behavioral Science in Government Communications to Improve Outcomes

While organizations have spent years cataloging how we behave, Behavioral Science helps us understand why we behave and offers a guide for what might inspire change. As a result, this field is rapidly growing as a way that the Government can improve mission outcomes. Techniques like Defaults or Norms in government communications can improve desired outcomes by informing decision-making.

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Making Solutions Come to Life: Integrating Designs into Mission Operations

Making Solutions Come to Life: Integrating Designs into Mission Operations

Government programs are large and complex, and their customers and stakeholders are demanding and have different priorities and goals. Designing solutions to new challenges when programs have increased mission responsibilities or unexpected challenges is important. It gets hard when agencies need to incorporate these new processes, tools, and methods into their organizations and workflow without disrupting ongoing operations and while gaining the buy-in of the workforce that needs to make these solutions come alive.

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Arc Aspicio
Key Components of Data Strategy

Key Components of Data Strategy

For many years, Governments have viewed data as a byproduct of activity with little value. This sentiment, however, is changing rapidly. Today, organizations are trying to get every little advantage they can get over another to achieve their goals, and in doing so, have taken advantage of what data has to offer.

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Arc Aspicio
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Amplifying Customer Experience By Looking Through a Behavioral Science Lens

Amplifying Customer Experience By Looking Through a Behavioral Science Lens

The emerging fields of Customer Experience (CX) and behavioral science have steadily grown in popularity over the past few years. Leading organizations worldwide are adopting and implementing CX to achieve great success. However, highly impactful tactics that lie at the intersection of CX and behavioral science are being overlooked and underutilized. By using a behavioral science lens, organizations can amplify CX initiatives to multiple their already impressive results.

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Arc Aspicio
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Data-Driven Mission Insights Through Design-Driven Dashboards

Data-Driven Mission Insights Through Design-Driven Dashboards

The amount of data that is available now and is still becoming available creates a wealth of opportunity for Government agencies and organizations to improve decision-making. With more complex and large data sets at its disposal, the Government can use data visualization to help increase understanding of what data is showing and what it means. In other words, data can be used to tell a story and help the Government can make better decisions.

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Eric Smith
Breakthrough Facilitation: Powerful Offsites Drive Mission Results

Breakthrough Facilitation: Powerful Offsites Drive Mission Results

Senior leaders in Government increasingly recognize the value of an offsite or workshop for their leadership team. It can jump start a strategy, solve one of the organization’s biggest problems, launch a new program, or help make data-driven decisions. Offsites allow teams to concentrate on a strategy, an initiative, or a complex problem that they otherwise cannot devote time to due to other deadlines, distractions, or day-to-day responsibilities.

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Lynn Ann Casey
Behavioral Science in the Government: Strategically Designing Actionable Conversations

Behavioral Science in the Government: Strategically Designing Actionable Conversations

Conversations are key for exchanging thoughts and ideas and creating an opportunity to listen to each other. Though the purpose of discussion is to advance and increase comprehension of an idea, not everyone leaves a conversation with a clear path forward. In fact, people often leave conversations uncertain. In cases like this, a follow-up conversation is required, increasing the time it takes to act and reducing momentum in providing measurable results.

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