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About Allygn

Intro

Allygn has developed a platform to connect clinicians with families and simultaneously allow cities, health systems, and education organizations to significantly reduce costs and increase the amount of resources available for reinvestment. Allygn's partnership model lends a sustainable, scalable framework to maximize access to high quality early intervention, education (PreK), and essential health services, especially for (but not limited to) students with disabilities and IEPs.

About Allygn

We have translated six years of intensive research into healthcare and education policy regulations into an end-to-end strategic solution and technology platform that maximizes access and funding schools and health systems have available for mental health, special education, and disability related services. To date, Allygn and our companion non-profit, Health and Education Alliance (HEA), have unlocked $15,000,000 in collective resource increases (cost savings and annually recurring new revenue) for community-based healthcare and education organizations.

Allygn is at an inflection point where our new and unique technological capabilities and international partnerships give us capacity to scale our solutions for funding and accessing mental health and special education to many more students and families. In just the last 3 months, we have finalized partnerships with the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) and have an MOU pending to commence work with leadership on drawing down $60,000,000 of new funding annually for SDP using our model. We have also strengthened our existing partnership with OnSide Youth Zones, and in turn, their international partners including the Queen's Trust, Office of the Lord Mayor of London, and LEGO Foundation (with more high-profile international endorsements to come).

Allygn Mission and Platform Components

In partnership with an anchor healthcare organization—school district dyad, Allygn operationalizes cross-sector, braided funding streams to meet multiple health and education needs of children and families. Allygn's platform braids funding streams from the health and education sectors (and associated local, state, and federal departments) by facilitating numerous workflows. By increasing resources available for education and healthcare organizations beyond traditional fee-for-service arrangements, Allygn increases quality of service while reducing school districts costs for service lines spanning mental health, autism support services, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. Our key model components can be summarized as the following:

For financing administrative operations

  • Connecting licensed mental health and special education clinicians to students and families and increasing schools' capacity to deliver high quality services
  • Managing the workflow through which mental health and special education practitioners are able to draw down underused state and federal funds
  • Collaborating with schools to navigate pieces of the health system related to optimizing health insurance billing and claiming in a HIPAA and FERPA compliant manner.
  • Building university partnerships to bolster certification, credentialing, and clinician recruitment
  • Identifying and negotiating cost-savings and identifying opportunities for revenue increases along service lines pertaining to service psychologists, mental health counselors, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and autism support services
  • Supporting grant-writing, licensing and credentialing of educators and clinicians, and other associated operations of health and social services

For educators, families, and students

  • Reducing admin burden on educators and maximizing their time with students
  • Reducing the amount parents have to miss work to attend disjointed medical appointments, and lowering the amount of instructional time missed by students

Other Partners of Allygn and Summary of Implementation Wins

In addition to the above partners, Allygn also works closely with the following groups

  • UPenn Netter Center for Community Partnerships—Leadership is central to the national community schools coalition, and they have indicated willingness to engage the highest leadership at the SUNY and CUNY-systems to support this work in New York City and others
  • Duquesne University—Allygn's work has been embedded into the strategic plan for the university's soon to be announced Center of Excellence for Disability Innovation which is supported by several national foundations
  • American Federation of Teachers and PA Affiliates (AFT, PFT)—Unions are among our biggest supporters, seeing our work as a bridge between labor and administration. Our largest media feature is that on the AFT national blog around our work in Pittsburgh
Geographic Area Resource increases & Other Wins
4 Southwest PA School Districts (Pittsburgh Public, Woodland Hills, East Allegheny, New Kensington Arnold)
  • Collective $13 Million in annual resource increases (cost-savings + new revenue) over the past 2-years across the 4 school districts*
  • 14 new clinicians placed in school-districts at a $2M cost-savings
  • In proof-of-concept, tax-cut and improvement in PA Math and ELA test-scores (~14-18% above state average in terms of base-line adjusted improvement)
North Carolina Community Schools Coalition and their state-wide rural-school network
  • Strategies shared have ability to unlock $30,000,000 annually state-wide and at a start-up cost that is 1/3 the cost of other standard models

*Letters of Support and references from each of the above can be provided upon request and testimonial from State Representative Salisbury breaks down the resource increases

Allygn

About Allygn

Intro

Allygn has developed a platform to connect clinicians with families and simultaneously allow cities, health systems, and education organizations to significantly reduce costs and increase the amount of resources available for reinvestment. Allygn's partnership model lends a sustainable, scalable framework to maximize access to high quality early intervention, education (PreK), and essential health services, especially for (but not limited to) students with disabilities and IEPs.

About Allygn

We have translated six years of intensive research into healthcare and education policy regulations into an end-to-end strategic solution and technology platform that maximizes access and funding schools and health systems have available for mental health, special education, and disability related services. To date, Allygn and our companion non-profit, Health and Education Alliance (HEA), have unlocked $15,000,000 in collective resource increases (cost savings and annually recurring new revenue) for community-based healthcare and education organizations.

Allygn is at an inflection point where our new and unique technological capabilities and international partnerships give us capacity to scale our solutions for funding and accessing mental health and special education to many more students and families. In just the last 3 months, we have finalized partnerships with the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) and have an MOU pending to commence work with leadership on drawing down $60,000,000 of new funding annually for SDP using our model. We have also strengthened our existing partnership with OnSide Youth Zones, and in turn, their international partners including the Queen's Trust, Office of the Lord Mayor of London, and LEGO Foundation (with more high-profile international endorsements to come).

Allygn Mission and Platform Components

In partnership with an anchor healthcare organization—school district dyad, Allygn operationalizes cross-sector, braided funding streams to meet multiple health and education needs of children and families. Allygn's platform braids funding streams from the health and education sectors (and associated local, state, and federal departments) by facilitating numerous workflows. By increasing resources available for education and healthcare organizations beyond traditional fee-for-service arrangements, Allygn increases quality of service while reducing school districts costs for service lines spanning mental health, autism support services, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. Our key model components can be summarized as the following:

For financing administrative operations

  • Connecting licensed mental health and special education clinicians to students and families and increasing schools' capacity to deliver high quality services
  • Managing the workflow through which mental health and special education practitioners are able to draw down underused state and federal funds
  • Collaborating with schools to navigate pieces of the health system related to optimizing health insurance billing and claiming in a HIPAA and FERPA compliant manner.
  • Building university partnerships to bolster certification, credentialing, and clinician recruitment
  • Identifying and negotiating cost-savings and identifying opportunities for revenue increases along service lines pertaining to service psychologists, mental health counselors, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and autism support services
  • Supporting grant-writing, licensing and credentialing of educators and clinicians, and other associated operations of health and social services

For educators, families, and students

  • Reducing admin burden on educators and maximizing their time with students
  • Reducing the amount parents have to miss work to attend disjointed medical appointments, and lowering the amount of instructional time missed by students

Other Partners of Allygn and Summary of Implementation Wins

In addition to the above partners, Allygn also works closely with the following groups

  • UPenn Netter Center for Community Partnerships—Leadership is central to the national community schools coalition, and they have indicated willingness to engage the highest leadership at the SUNY and CUNY-systems to support this work in New York City and others
  • Duquesne University—Allygn's work has been embedded into the strategic plan for the university's soon to be announced Center of Excellence for Disability Innovation which is supported by several national foundations
  • American Federation of Teachers and PA Affiliates (AFT, PFT)—Unions are among our biggest supporters, seeing our work as a bridge between labor and administration. Our largest media feature is that on the AFT national blog around our work in Pittsburgh
Geographic Area Resource increases & Other Wins
4 Southwest PA School Districts (Pittsburgh Public, Woodland Hills, East Allegheny, New Kensington Arnold)
  • Collective $13 Million in annual resource increases (cost-savings + new revenue) over the past 2-years across the 4 school districts*
  • 14 new clinicians placed in school-districts at a $2M cost-savings
  • In proof-of-concept, tax-cut and improvement in PA Math and ELA test-scores (~14-18% above state average in terms of base-line adjusted improvement)
North Carolina Community Schools Coalition and their state-wide rural-school network
  • Strategies shared have ability to unlock $30,000,000 annually state-wide and at a start-up cost that is 1/3 the cost of other standard models

*Letters of Support and references from each of the above can be provided upon request and testimonial from State Representative Salisbury breaks down the resource increases