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These included developing a horizontal integration
maturity model for health and human service (H/HS)
agencies, technical guidance documents on financing and
technology, two documents on the use of Big Data—an
Analytic Capability Road Map
and the
Roadmap for Analytic
Capacity Building
—as well as state and local workforce devel-
opment and analytics committees, all of which can be found
on APHSA’s National Collaborative web page. In addition, the
National Collaborative broadened its strategic partnerships
to include all of APHSA’s affiliates, other nonprofit member-
ship organizations, university faculty members, and private
foundations. Federal involvement with our long-time federal
partners— the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS), the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS)—was recently expanded to include the Social
Security Administration (SSA) and the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).
ver the past five years, the
American Public Human Services
Association (APHSA) has worked
to translate its
Pathways
vision of a proac-
tive, client-centric, 21st century health
and human service business model into
reality by undertaking a number of activi-
ties under the banner of the National
Collaborative for Integration of Health and
Human Services (National Collaborative),
previously known as the National
Workgroup on Integration (NWI).
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By Megan Lape