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It takes many voices to create an effective association—an association committed to developing and promoting sound public policies that improve the lives of low-income Americans. The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) comprises approximately 4,000 individual members in addition to all state and territorial public human service departments and hundreds of local human service agencies.
APHSA is governed by a 16-member Board of Directors, appointed or elected by the general membership and various constituencies within APHSA and from other public or private organizations. The board and the National Council of State Human Service Administrators make policy. The National Council of Local Public Welfare Administrators also develops policy positions and recommendations.
Membership Benefits
APHSA staff serve constituent member agencies and individual members through a variety of programs, including
- the development and analysis of social policy at the local, state, and national levels;
- training and technical assistance to states and localities;
- publications, including the professional journal Policy & Practice of Public Human Services, the weekly Washington report This Week in Washington, the annual Public Human Services Directory, the bimonthly legislative alert W-Memo, the Medicaid Management Institute’s MMI Bulletin, the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators’ Network, Bridges (the newsletter of the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance), the National Association of State Medicaid Directors’ Directions, and professional and policy monographs;
- conferences and seminars, management training seminars, and staff training workshops in specific program areas;
- research and demonstration projects in the human services to extend knowledge, improve service delivery and management, and provide technical assistance in program improvement and change.
Individual members of APHSA support the organization’s policy agenda and receive Policy & Practice, APHSA’s professional journal, as well as reduced rates on APHSA conferences; low-cost group life, accident, and hospital insurance programs; and the opportunity to subscribe at a discount to other APHSA publications.
Agency membership in the association includes all the state and territorial public human service departments, and hundreds of local human service agencies. Agency membership includes, in addition to the benefits of individual membership, a role in determining policy positions of the state and local councils, and the annual Public Human Services Directory. State agencies also receive the bimonthly W-Memo.
Associate membership is available to organizations other than public human service agencies such as local, private, nonprofit associations and national advocacy organizations. Benefits are the same as for individual memberships, plus associate members also receive the Public Human Services Directory.
Contributors. The association accepts individual, foundation, and corporate gifts to underwrite general activities or special projects, such as policy development projects and the Wilbur H. Cohen Human Service Internship. The internship, in honor of the late secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and APHSA president, is a stipend program open to graduate students in social work and public policy. All such contributions to APHSA, including the Wilbur H. Cohen Internship, are tax deductible.
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