Aurora is a product of livedxperience. Learn more about who is livexperience and what we are doing here!
One platform. Built to bridge policy, practice, and the family experience.
Aurora is a platform of tools designed to bring transparency, collaboration, and shared understanding to family-serving systems. Our first tool is a deterministic, rules-based family assessment built on Structured Decision Making (SDM) and Team Decision Making (TDM) practices — the same risk and safety frameworks used across child welfare systems nationwide.
Our Approach
Aurora is built on the belief that understanding should come before judgment.
Whether documenting a family assessment, reviewing a case record, evaluating service needs, or examining system performance, the goal isn’t just to collect information — it’s to create a clearer, more reviewable picture of what happened and why.
Our first tool — a deterministic family assessment grounded in SDM/TDM methodology — is the starting point. Every output traces back to a documented rule, not a model’s guess. Additional tools are in development, each built around the same goal: connecting policy, practice, and family experience into one coherent, reviewable system.
Every tool on the Aurora platform is designed to:
- Improve consistency in documentation
- Support policy-informed decision-making
- Increase transparency and auditability
- Encourage critical thinking and reflection
- Strengthen communication between stakeholders
- Elevate lived experience as a source of expertise
Created by livexperience
Aurora was created by Jessie Sicley, a livexperience advocate, independent researcher, and systems innovator whose work focuses on child welfare, family preservation, prevention services, and the relationship between policy and practice.
Drawing from both personal experience and extensive policy research, Jessie has spent years examining how systems function, where they break down, and how they can be strengthened through transparency, collaboration, and practical innovation.
This perspective has informed the development of Aurora and continues to shape its evolution.
Rather than approaching challenges from a single viewpoint, Aurora seeks to bring together the expertise of professionals, policymakers, researchers, families, and community members to create solutions that are both effective and grounded in real-world experience.
