What services do we offer?

LEx Advocacy offers a comprehensive suite of services that help government agencies, nonprofits, coalitions, and community stakeholders build equitable, trauma-informed, and people-centered systems of care.

Below is the full breakdown of services you can provide.

Policy & Systems Consulting - Evidence-based, equity-driven, trauma-informed systems transformation.

LEx Advocacy partners with public agencies and organizations to analyze, design, and strengthen policies impacting children, youth, families, and historically marginalized communities.

Core Services

  • Policy research, drafting, and analysis

  • Legislative strategy and testimony support

  • Systems mapping & cross-sector alignment

  • Policy reform recommendations

  • Best-practice analysis and synthesis

  • Regulatory review and practice assessment

  • Racial & socioeconomic equity analysis

  • Gap analysis of system performance & client experience

Deliverables

  • Policy briefs

  • Legislative proposals

  • Implementation plans

  • Regulatory change recommendations

  • Cross-system analysis reports

  • Executive presentations

Strategic Planning & Organizational Development Building organizational capacity that is aligned, measurable, and mission-focused.

LEx Advocacy helps organizations develop strategic plans rooted in data, lived experience, and community wisdom.

Core Services

  • Strategic planning (1–5 year plans)

  • Program and service evaluation

  • Workflow/process redesign

  • Data-driven outcome measurement

  • Theory of Change & Logic Model development

  • Organizational readiness assessments

  • Risk identification & mitigation planning

  • Governance and board engagement consulting

Deliverables

  • Strategic plan documents

  • Evaluation reports

  • Logic models & Theory of Change frameworks

  • System improvement recommendations

  • Data dashboards (via partner tools)

  • Training plans and operational playbooks

Public Engagement, Communications, & Advocacy Strategy

Clear, compelling, communication for public policy, social crisis, and coalition support.

Core Services

  • Communications strategy

  • Stakeholder engagement planning

  • Public hearing/testimony guidance

  • Messaging and narrative framing

  • Speechwriting for executives, directors, and policymakers

  • Op-eds, letters, advocacy briefs

  • Youth & family storytelling support (ethical storytelling)

  • Crisis communication support for agencies

Deliverables

  • Communications plan

  • Messaging guide or narrative framework

  • Public statements & press materials

  • Talking points for internal/external stakeholders

  • Testimony drafts

  • Media toolkits

Lived Experience Integration (LEx Integration) Embedding Lived Experts into decision-making — ethically, respectfully, and authentically.

LEx Advocacy is the first Rhode Island-based consulting organization specifically built to help agencies integrate lived experience into their systems, not as token voices but as partners in design.

Core Services

  • Lived experience advisory board creation

  • LEx workforce development & recruitment

  • Compensation standards & ethical engagement guidelines

  • Trauma-informed meeting design

  • Harm reduction & psychological safety protocols

  • Implementation coaching for staff and leadership

Deliverables

  • LEx Engagement Framework

  • Compensation & Equity Guidelines

  • Draft charters for lived-experience councils

  • Training modules for staff

  • LEx participation onboarding toolkits

  • Leadership coaching sessions

Youth, Family, and Community Systems Expertise

Specialized consultation for agencies serving transition-age youth, families in crisis, and vulnerable populations.

Specialty Areas

 

  • Youth homelessness

  • Transition-age youth permanency (SOUL Family Framework expertise)

  • Juvenile justice & diversion

  • Child welfare & family stabilization

  • Educational outcomes for youth in state care

  • Behavioral health access

  • Unaccompanied minors/unstably housed students

  • Community outreach & engagement models

 

Deliverables

  • Needs assessments

  • Best practice scans

  • Outreach strategy plans

  • Multidisciplinary coordination frameworks

  • Youth-centered program design

Training, Facilitation, and Capacity Building

Human-centered, trauma-informed, engaging training that changes culture, not just knowledge.

Training Topics

 

  • Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

  • Lived-Experience Leadership & Engagement

  • Youth Homelessness Systems & Higher Education Pathways

  • Child Welfare Policy & Permanency Planning

  • Cross-System Collaboration

  • Leadership Through Lived Experience

  • Harm Reduction Approaches

  • Equity-Driven Policy Development

  • Navigating Complexity in Human Services

 

 

Facilitation

 

  • Strategic retreats

  • Community listening sessions

  • Multi-agency workgroups

  • Convenings & summits

  • Executive leadership roundtables

 

Deliverables

 

  • Facilitated agendas & reports

  • Training slide decks

  • Certificates of completion

  • Follow-up coaching

  • Implementation tools and resource libraries