Future Proofing for Family Well-Being (Part I)

While our North Star is constant, how can we anticipate and prepare for turbulence and the tectonic plates that are shifting in our communities, across the country, and around the globe to advance our policy and systems change work ensuring all children and families thrive? With an eye to 2025 and beyond, Ascend at the Aspen Institute Founder Anne Mosle will share how we can adapt the process of “future-proofing”—which is a process for anticipating the future and developing methods to minimize the effects of shocks and stresses of future events. Future-proofing is now widely used across sectors and issues from medicine to industrial design to climate change.