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American Public Human Services Association
Supported states, localities, and key partners in building field
knowledge and achieving system transformation through multiple
technical assistance platforms, including the following:
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Expanded the scope of the National Collaborative for Integration
of Health and Human Services (formerly known as the National
Workgroup on Integration) to include a focus on coordinated service
delivery models and new financing approaches critical to impacting
population health and well-being. Continued to support the field
in use of data analytics, achieving systems interoperability, and
modernizing the agency workforce. Enhanced our health and human
services maturity model and self-assessment tool (launching version
2.0) mapped to the Human Service Value Curve to support state and
local integration efforts.
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Launched the Center for Workforce Engagement focused on
promoting two-generation and cross-sector (labor, health, education,
social services) approaches to employment through capacity
and skill-building, career pathways, financial literacy, health, and
individual and family well-being.
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With support from the Kresge Foundation, developed and tested a
change management toolkit to serve as the foundation for technical
assistance to human service agencies and their partners as they
work to make transformative changes in systems.
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Using framing research, advanced and embedded a network wide
communication strategy to promote the need for a transformed
health and human services system. Captured and documented
stories of innovation and transformation across the country.
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Completed the National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise
(NEICE) project, designed to build the architecture for the electronic
exchange of data for the Interstate Compact on the Placement
of Children and to pilot the exchange through six states prior to a
nationwide rollout. Results included significant reductions in the time
it takes to notify receiving states, complete home studies, and make
placement decisions, as well as an expected $1.6M in savings from
copying and mailing costs alone once fully implemented. Awarded a
$3.6M grant from the Children’s Bureau to further develop the NEICE
and onboard all states to the NEICE platform. This project also
received the 2015
Adoptions Across Boundaries Award.
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Examined impacts of the Affordable Care Act on operation of the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through state
site visits and a national survey. This initiative, funded by the Food
and Nutrition Service, identified how well customers entering the new
health system were being attached to SNAP, how agency structures
contributed to this interaction, and identified future research needs.
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Established a relationship with the Social Security Administration
to conduct a national survey and launch a peer community of
excellence focused on achieving optimal data sharing through the
Federal Services Data Hub.
BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
FROM 2015
“Our voice is usually well-represented by APHSA without us
having to be heard”
– Oklahoma