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Featuring content from members, partners, and staff, as well as experts from outside our field, our various posts focus on what it takes to build well-being from the ground up. Organized around the six impact areas (see below) defined in APHSA’s Strategic Playbook, our goal is to spark new ideas and accelerate the spread of promising approaches that help realize our shared vision for thriving communities built on human potential.
Belonging Is More Than a Buzzword: Deepening Our Commitment to Racial Healing and Belonging
Natalie Williams, 01/17/2023
Healthier Ecosystem
Providing Data to Advance Racial Wealth Equity
Natalie Evans Harris, 01/12/2023
Data Optimization
A Vision for Young Families: Introducing the System Alignment for Young Families Project
Lofaine Bradford, 01/06/2023
Evidence-Informed Investments
How Can Data Stop Homelessness Before It Starts?
Andrea Danes, 11/17/2022
Trauma-Informed Care: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?
Molly Tierney, 10/14/2022
Agile H/HS Workforce
Pregnancy and Poverty: Forging a Path Forward for Families
Madison Doser, 09/26/2022
Modern H/HS Policy
Gearing Up for the 2023 Farm Bill: Lessons Learned from SNAP Policy Planning Sessions with Health and Human Services Leaders
Michelle Fausto, 09/22/2022
Tackling Turnover: How Agencies Are Supporting and Sustaining Their Workforce
Laura Haffield, 08/31/2022
One Mental Health Hotline: How is Your State Addressing the 988 Mandate?
Pawel Walczuk, 08/11/2022
Child Care Reform: An Essential for Economic Recovery
Meg Dygert, 08/01/2022
Shifting Structural Power to Advance Race Equity—Part 3
Tracy Wareing Evans, 07/15/2022
Shifting Structural Power to Advance Race Equity—Part 2
Tracy Wareing Evans, 06/03/2022
Shifting Structural Power to Advance Race Equity—Part 1
Tracy Wareing Evans, 05/13/2022
Joining Forces Across the Atlantic to Celebrate World Social Work Day
Alfonso Lara Montero and Tracy Wareing Evans, 03/15/2022
2022 Action Plan: A Commitment to Outcomes
Tracy Wareing Evans, 02/17/2022
Joining Families on Their Journey
Erin Oalican, 11/18/2022
Uncovering the Evidence for TANF Innovation and Modernization
Romuald Tassigne, 10/19/2022
Seven Ways to Improve TANF and Help Families Advance
Susannah Rodrigue, Matt Lyons, and Mary Nelson, 08/22/2022
A Tangible Illustration of the Promise of TANF
Justin Brown, 05/26/2022
TANF Agencies' Critique and Aspirations for the Future
Babette Roberts, 04/08/2022
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Promoting productive narratives that facilitate finding common ground and advancing locally-adaptable solutions centered on the whole family.
Advancing policy at federal, state, and local levels that is human-centered; rooted in the context of what it takes to be healthy and well in a community; and focuses on achieving social and economic mobility across generations.
Supporting a culture of evidence in health and human service organizations and generating opportunities for building and spreading services that have been shown to work.
Integrating and leveraging data while building the analytical capacity of health and human service agencies to inform sound policy and practice.
Focused on the critical role of the workforce and enhancing the well-being and overall capacity of workers at all levels to deliver on the agency’s mission.
Creating thriving communities by understanding the enabling conditions for social and economic mobility through the lens of social determinants of health; whole family and multi-generation approaches; and Value Curve progression.
As we continue navigating the uncharted waters of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will use this special section of our blog to highlight relevant topics.
A multi-part blog that looks at the American Rescue Plan and discusses how to leverage it to strengthen the resiliency of our public health and human services infrastructure and substantially move the needle on social and economic mobility for long-term family success.
A cutting-edge blog series getting to the core of modern TANF reform.
Find all articles posted in 2023.
Find all articles posted in 2022.
Find all articles posted in 2021.
Questions? Suggestions? Contact Jessica Garon, Director of Communications.