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link between using OE tools and methods, making desired improve- ments, improved organizational functioning, and improved impact on those served. Primary OE frameworks include the Organizational System, the DAPIM TM Flywheel, the Structure for Change Management, and many tools and templates with other categories and dimensions. APHSA’s Knowledge Management Programs APHSA’s Web and Social Media Sites. Shaped by our members’ Pathways agenda, all policy papers (cross-sector and program specific), issue briefs, successful stories of innovation and impact, guidance chapters, and tech- nical assistance tools are posted here. In 2015, we will be launching an APHSA Resource Repository and National Map that will allow all of our members and partners to scan the entire country for best practices, to review a summary on Congress and the Legislative Process Congressional Research Service. http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/ crs-publish.cfm?pid=%270DP% 2BP%2CC%3E%23P%20%20%0A-37k, July 19, 2010 5. Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate, Richard S. Beth, Specialist on Congress and the Legislative Process and Valerie Heitshusen, Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process, Congressional Research Service, May 31, 2013. https:// www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish. cfm?pid=%270E%2C*PLW%3D%22P%20 %20%0A 6. Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 31 U.S.C. 1301 7. Lee, Nooree, “Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Reconsidered,” Harvard Law School, Federal Budget Policy Seminar. http:// www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/ BudgetActRevisited_34.pdf 8. Ibid. 9. A concurrent resolution is “A legislative measure. . . generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal

of the work and its impact, and then to link for more detailed case materials and tools as desired. APHSA’s Innovation Center (http://www.aphsa.org/content/ APHSA/en/pathways/INNOVATION_ CENTER.html) Launched in 2012, this “virtual center” is a test laboratory for emerging frameworks and tools that may later be integrated with our tech- nical service platforms, similar to what has occurred with adaptive leadership and alternative financing. Emerging frameworks within the Innovation Center today include the application of behavioral economics to human services, and the underlying drivers of capacity-building for executive functioning, resilience, and leader- ship—both within our organizations and with those we all serve. Some of the key opportunities further shaping the path forward for with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the president and thus do not have the force of law.” U.S. Senate Glossary. https://www.senate. gov/reference/glossary_term/concurrent_ resolution.htm 10. Reconciliation: “A process established in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by which Congress changes existing laws to conform tax and spending levels to the levels set in a budget resolution. Changes recommended by committees pursuant to a reconciliation instruction are incorporated into a reconciliation measure.” U.S. Senate Glossary. https://www.senate.gov/reference/ glossary_term/reconciliation_process.htm 11. A Christmas Tree: “Informal nomenclature for a bill on the Senate floor that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments. The amendments which adorn the bill may provide special benefits to various groups or interests.” U.S. Senate Glossary. https://www.senate.gov/

health and human services are high- lighted in the piece I have written for this issue, “What’s Shaping the Path Forward for Human Services?” Over the course of the year, we will be working with our members to bolster our Pathways framework by building on those opportunities, and to develop additional practical tools and products. We are particularly excited about two new products to be launched early this year: the new online repository of proven real-world improvements and innovations occurring across the country (mentioned above) and a CEO self-diagnostic dashboard designed to be generic and intuitive to our execu- tive agency members, regardless of their system’s level of readiness and goals. Be on the lookout for both! Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. (2012), 132 S.Ct. 2566 , http://www.supremecourt.gov/ opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf 15. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111–152, 124 Stat. 1029) 16. Department of Homeland Security, Executive Action on Immigration. http://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction 17. Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act, P.L. 113-083, Section 3101(b) of Title 31, U.S. Code 18. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, (P.L. 105–33, 111 Stat. 251) 19. The Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (P.L. 113–93) 20. Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015 (P.L. 113-202) reference/glossary_term/christmas_tree_ bill.htm 12. (2 U.S.C. 644). 13. Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate’s “Byrd Rule.” Bill Heniff Jr., Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process, Congressional Research Service, September 13, 2010. 14. National Federation of Independent

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