Baljit Hundal
MSW, Senior Consultant
Baljit Hundal brings thirty years of experience transforming health and human services organizations across California and New York. As a former Child Welfare Director and Mental Health Director, she specializes in system reform, organizational restructuring, and policy implementation.
She brings a comprehensive range of services designed to enhance organizational performance and resilience. Her expertise includes strategic planning and policy implementation, organizational restructuring, and fostering culture change to align with evolving goals.
Her professional experience includes successfully consolidating county departments into a unified superagency while implementing a System of Care framework. Leading rural county systems provided her opportunity to develop expertise in establishing mass care shelters and Local Assistance Centers following catastrophic wildfires. Baljit is adept at helping build resilient systems that maintain essential services during emergencies and ensuring crisis preparedness and disaster response planning and readiness.
She has developed and implemented policy and change management across the HHS spectrum, including areas like Extended Foster Care, Pathways to Wellbeing, Continuum of Care reforms (AB 403), and CalAIM. Most recently, she’s been a trusted advisor and trainer on CalAIM implementation, Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) compliance, and California Child and Family Services Review (C-CFSR) processes. Each of these requires expertise to translate complex regulatory mandates into effective, sustainable programs.
Baljit’s serves as a contract instructor with numerous workforce and training academies, including the University of California, Davis, delivering specialized staff, supervisor, and leadership training programs. She has developed comprehensive training programs that strengthen workforce capacity and retention.
Ms. Hundal's combination of executive leadership, implementation expertise, and training experience makes her an invaluable partner for organizations seeking to enhance their impact and sustainability.