Expertise

We work with you to develop, refine, and enhance your performance in the areas illustrated below.

Infrastructure, workforce development, research, data collection, and more–we’re experts in all of it. With both a 30,000-foot view and boots-on-the-ground approach to execution, we match your complex challenges with sustainable solutions.

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Behavioral Health Infrastructure and Housing Development

We can change the trajectory of behavioral health access and housing shortfalls together. AHP delivers tailored, state-of-the-art solutions to build effective behavioral health and housing infrastructure.

We can help you build a foundation for the long-term changes in behavioral health and housing systems this country needs now.

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Criminal Justice System Involvement

AHP is dedicated to bettering the lives of people at the crossroads of substance use disorder and criminal justice involvement. Our expert staff are experienced in offering practical, customized, effective solutions for jails, prisons, courts, probation departments, and other criminal justice stakeholders.

Whether your goal is to tackle staff shortages, offer medications to treat opioid use disorder, or bolster staff education and training, we’ll create a plan to meet your unique needs.

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Mental Health Parity and Health Equity

Are you looking to modernize healthcare services to ensure equitable treatment for marginalized populations? AHP is ready to help develop, implement, and evaluate custom systems of care to support your equity and parity missions.

We understand how access to care can be affected by race, ethnicity, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation, and more, and we are experts at implementing systems designed to consistently overcome barriers to care using evidence-based practices.

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Health-Related Social Needs and Systemic Drivers of Health

Establishing effective support programs, coordinating funding, training a quality workforce, and evaluating processes and outcomes can be a real challenge and a tremendous opportunity to identify and address systemic drivers of health.

Luckily, AHP has been helping clients do just this for years. From assessing at-risk populations to identifying health-related social needs and applicable programs, we’re ready to help you make lasting change.

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Housing and Homelessness

AHP is committed to solving the problem of homelessness in the United States. We can help shape the right approach for your community and expand your capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate programs that truly create systems change.

We’ll simplify complex issues to identify clear, achievable solutions, and guide you in the development of the most relevant supportive services to help people experiencing homelessness thrive.

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Data Science and Innovation

We’re proud of our state-of-the-art, culturally informed, responsive data systems and solutions. Together with our research and evaluation skills, subject matter expertise, objectivity, and real-world experience, we offer a comprehensive suite of tailored services. These empower our clients to make data-informed decisions, showcase their initiatives, and support best-in-class data collection, management, analysis, and reporting.

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Integration and Care Coordination

Integration and care coordination in health and human services are paramount to meeting the complex needs of disadvantaged populations. This may involve everything from policy development to implementing operations—and AHP is ready to work with you at every level.

We design solutions that address the cultural and social dimensions of integrated and coordinated care, answer the need for new business and administrative operations, and set you up for financial success.

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Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Design

AHP’s team includes experts from around the country and across many disciplines, standing ready to assist federal, state, county, and city policymakers in designing tailored systems of care and continuums of care for their communities.

We consider every variable, including the community’s vision, level of investment, values, and goals, as well as the needs of the distinct populations you aim to serve.

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Opioid Crisis Response

The opioid epidemic is the most critical public health crisis facing our nation today. Success in reducing opioid and other drug overdoses requires a thorough understanding of all factors contributing to the crisis in the first place—an expertise that AHP can bring to your efforts. We’re known for marshalling best practices and supporting large-scale systems change when lives depend on it.

We provide support through training and technical assistance, administrative solutions, workforce development, and more.

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Special Populations

AHP is dedicated to serving the needs of special populations, including pregnant and parenting people, people experiencing homelessness, people with mental health and substance use disorders, and people who are or were involved in the criminal justice system.

Every special population shares the experience of having been marginalized and living with multiple chronic conditions. Our job is to help you develop solutions that meet the needs of the diverse populations you serve.

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Workforce Development

The need for an accessible and qualified behavioral health workforce is as great as it has ever been. The Workforce Innovation Lab for Behavioral Health and Human Services at AHP specializes in the creation of tailored solutions to attract, grow, and retain staff.

Our proven workforce strategies lead to the development of competent, flexible, and resilient staff who can effectively serve your clients and patients.

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