P&P February 2016

By Megan Lape

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ver the past five years, the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) has worked

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). 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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