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Day One Institute

10.13.22 | 3 min read

What is the Day One Institute?

Our mission is to equip civil servants with mindsets, capabilities and experience to foster and deliver programs that meet the needs of diverse customers—the American people. We envision a future of government services that offer seamless entry points into state and federal programs to support all Americans utilizing any social safety net program or government service.

Our Craft

Experiential training and development opportunities—with direct access to world class trainers who have grounded experience in building and delivering social services from positions within government.

Online training, resources, and toolkits—through an online platform that provides consistent access to resources and people to support civil servants on their journey to transform social services within their offices.

HCDX: Human Centered Design Experiential Training

The White House issued anExecutive Order关注客户体验所有机构receiving federal funding, creating an imperative for government programs to be infused with customer engagement and feedback systems that include customers in the design of policies, programs and processes, yet agencies and civil servants lack the training, mindsets and access to resources to best support the execution of their mandate.

This 7 day (remote) or 5 day (in person) class equips participants with the methods, processes and confidence to use Human Centered Design for both policy making and service design. Participants will:

This training is set up to be experiential—learning by doing. Participants will be actively iterating, learning, and practicing design thinking and other approaches to innovation.

GILD21

Aguildis a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants; or an association of people in pursuit of a common goal.

The Day One Institute designedGILD21as a 21st Century guild (it’s also an acronym: Government Innovation, Leadership and Design). Our craftsmen are public servants. Our trade is improving policy and service delivery across the whole of government.

We know that most public servants at all levels of government care deeply about their mission, and often have great ideas to improve how their agency works. They see low uptake and high dropout rates in programs that could help people get jobs, get off of welfare, or learn new skills. They see inequity in outcomes that results from the disconnect between old government approaches and how the world has changed.GILD21will teach leaders in state and local government the critical skills to focus on their customers in order to redesign policies, processes and operate more effectively.

As a result of theGILD21program, participants will learn to: