Episode # 16: CarePortal Founder & President Adrien Lewis
Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy.
This week we’re continuing our exploration of a key constraint on child welfare policy.
Social isolation is forcing a fundamental shift in how public systems think about state capacity in the context of partnerships with private organizations focused on care.
A new class of mission-driven platforms is emerging that doesn’t fit traditional privatization models built around scopes of work and technical execution.
Today’s guest embodies this shift.
Adrien Lewis is the Founder and President of CarePortal a platform leveraging community care capacity at scale to support families in crisis.
CarePortal’s ethos is grounded in a simple truth: when you need a car seat from a stranger, your problems run far deeper than merely not having a car seat.
Our conversation dug into how social isolation underlies family crisis, what community mobilization can do that government alone can’t, and what it points to for future policy.
This episode offers a roadmap to understand how child and family policy is evolving in ways that sharpen the complementary roles of government and private partners.
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