American Association of Food Stamp Directors
(AAFSD)
Provides a national forum for discussing policies, laws, and
regulations at
the state and federal levels that affect the administration of the
Food Stamp Program.
Provides a forum at national, state, and regional
levels for
the discussion of legal matters pertaining to the administration
of public welfare.
List
of Executive Committee Members
Go
to Attorneys’
Discussion area.
Promotes understanding within the field, exchanges
technical and design information, and promotes the goals of APHSA.
Go
to APHSA–ISM’s web site.
APHSA serves as secretariat to the Association of
Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical
Assistance, a nonprofit corporation established in 1986 to facilitate
the administration of the compact (but not an affiliate of APHSA). APHSA
staff provides member states with technical assistance and support in
administering the compact and also assists them in improving
professional practices pertaining to the interstate aspect of adoption
assistance programs. In addition, the secretariat facilitates the
collaboration of activities and exchange of information among compact
administrators, private adoption agency representatives, and others
concerned with special-needs adoptions to improve services for
special-needs children and their families.
Besides being an affiliate of APHSA, AAICPC obtains its
secretariat services through APHSA. The AAICPC was established in 1974
and consists of member states from all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Interstate Compact on the
Placement of Children (ICPC) is not only statutory law in all 52
jurisdictions, it is also a binding contract between all parties. The
ICPC establishes uniform legal and administrative procedures governing
the interstate placement of children. ICPC is the best means we have to
ensure protection and services to children who are placed across state
lines. The Secretariat provides ongoing administrative, legal, and
technical assistance to individual states that administer the compact.
The Secretariat also provides administrative, legal, and technical
assistance to the network of ICPC member states for the purpose of
resolving problems of mutual concern, and formulating common policies,
practices, and goals.
Click
here to read about ICPC and Regulation No. 7.
Provides states and territories with a forum for
sharing mutual concerns on quality control activities and their related
issues.
The mission of NAPIPM is to promote and enhance
excellence in the planning and administration of state human service
programs through the development, collection, analysis, and evaluation
of program data, and outcomes and performance information for use in
informed decision making.
Provides information to and training for administrative
hearing officials within human service and other government agencies.
The mission of the National Association of Hearing
Officials is to improve the administrative hearing process and thereby
benefit hearing officials, their employing agencies and the individuals
they serve through promoting professionalism and by providing training
continuing education, a national forum for discussion of issues, and
leadership concerning administrative hearings.
Click here to read more
about NAHO and its Board of Directors.
NAPCWA, created in 1983, works to enhance and improve
public policy and administration of services for children, youth, and
families. As the only organization devoted solely to representing
administrators of state and local public child welfare agencies, NAPCWA
brings an informed view of the problems facing families today to the
formulation of child welfare policy.
Provides for the development of information,
recommendations,
and comments of state agencies on federal laws and regulations
and problems and the issues affecting the administration of the
Medicaid program.
Go
to NASMD’s web site.
The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) was
established by a cooperative agreement grant to APHSA from the U.S.
Administration on Aging (AoA) in September 1993. NCEA’s objectives were
to serve as a clearinghouse, develop and disseminate information,
provide training and technical assistance, and conduct research and
demonstration projects of national significance. NCEA is not an
affiliate of APHSA. NCEA and its subcontractor, Westat Inc., launched
the nation’s first elder abuse incidence study, with funding from the
Administration for Children and Families and AoA. A report on the study,
to be completed soon, will provide estimates of the national incidence
of the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older people in domestic
settings and information about the characteristics of domestic
elder-abuse victims.
Provides a national forum for the discussion of staff
development
and training issues at the federal, state, and local levels.
