APHSA 2015 Annual Report

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2015

Supported states, localities, and key partners in building field knowledge and achieving system transformation through multiple technical assistance platforms, including the following: ●● 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. ●● 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. ●● 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. ●● 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.

●● 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. ●● 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. ●● 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.

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