Transforming Human Services Through New Partnerships

American Public Human Services AssociationReady by 21 Conference

April 23, 2014

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Our Desired Future State

APHSA’s Pathways agenda: a transformed health and human services system

• fully integrated • based on shared services and coordinated care delivery• a consumer-focused, modern marketplace experience• designed to improve consumer outcomes, improve population health over

time, and bend the health and human services cost curve • accountable for these results through data and evidence • fully engaged with strong partnerships that reach across sectors, provide

comprehensive services, and leverage resources and strengths

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Supporting Movement up the Value Curve

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Our Desired Future State

Some key elements of transformation –

• Collective impact • Innovation • Accountability • Transformative partnerships

Transformation in action

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Partnerships:

Critical to Our Vision

for Innovation

Breadth and Depth of the Resources We Bring

• Top-level human service leaders across the nation• Affiliates representing the human services spectrum, including mission support

services that cut across the health and human service enterprise• Existing partners with a shared vision • Growing funding relationships with federal agencies and with philanthropy

aimed at sparking innovation and leading to better outcomes • Initiatives in framing our messages and other leadership skills

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Partnering through Innovation – Current and Future Opportunities

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• Current opportunities – use funding and authority already in place, such as Performance Partnerships

• Others in the child welfare arena include Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, CMS demonstrations, and the challenges in dealing with trafficking

• We are seeking additional opportunities for blended and braided funding and other examples of alternative financing

• We are also seek greatly expanded policy waivers, particularly across programs

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• NEICE (National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise) • Child welfare practice and finance alignment• Chapin Hall Data Center• NCWWI (National Child Welfare Workforce Institute)• CCDBG Reauthorization

Other Key APHSA Partnership Initiatives with

Children and Youth Connections

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We are Ready to Partner • APHSA: your connection with human services partner agencies that are

capable and ready

• Joint conference calls or webinars on Performance Partnership ideas and similar innovative opportunities

• Identify issues and populations well-suited to joint efforts

• Data collection strategies and development of outcomes that will work across sectors

• Initiatives within APHSA and through joint efforts that focus on leadership, communication, and impact

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To find more information about us and our members’ efforts:

Visit www.aphsa.org