CHC Insights Consulting Services
Supporting clients engaged in transformative systems change
About CHC Insights
The Mission
At CHC Insights, we specialize in supporting clients engaged in transformative systems change by providing insights from an ecological-systems perspective--an approach that illuminates interdependence within and across social systems.
We tailor consulting services to the unique needs of each professional, collaborative team, and partnering organization we support.
My Story
My name is Catherine Huddleston-Casas (CHC) and I offer you a myriad of insights I have gathered over the last 25+ years.
I am a systems thinker. I like to bring folks who don't typically exchange ideas to the same table so that they can think together and discover their interdependence. Powerful insights can emerge. I am quite comfortable in the midst of emergence.
There is a story behind my two and a half decades of professional experience. To some it may read as a "social justice warrior" story. To others, a "nerdy family scientist" story. To me, it is a story about economic interdependence.
My education and experience have equipped me with a deep understanding of the systemic pathways and barriers to family economic self-sufficiency. My doctoral training is in Family Social Science—an interdisciplinary program that afforded me the opportunity to study the fields of Family Science, Family Economics, and Family Policy concurrently. I have applied an ecosystems approach to the study of economic self-sufficiency, rural poverty and healthcare, childhood witness of domestic violence, and most recently, the early childhood workforce.
The skills and expertise I offer my clients has evolved through my positions as a tenured Associate Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska, as a Congressional Fellow for the late Paul D. Wellstone, United States Senator (MN), and as the Associate Director of Workforce Planning and Development at the University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute. For specific details about the resulting body of work, see my curriculum vitae.
As a scholar with interest in economic self-sufficiency and the interdependencies occurring at the intersection of economic-, government-, and family-life, I have developed the ability to identify productive interconnections across stakeholders and articulate these using a common language meaningful to those involved.
I hope you will become part of this story as it unfolds.
Cathey