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Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.

AHP Overview: Empowering, Innovative Solutions for Health and Human Services

Service BriefsLast updated: Jan 28, 2025

Since 1985, organizations like yours have turned to AHP to navigate complex health and human services challenges. With innovative, evidence-based solutions, we help you achieve meaningful change and improve the lives of those you serve. From addressing behavioral health and substance use to advancing equity, housing, and workforce development, AHP combines expertise with compassion to create meaningful change. Let us help you turn bold visions into measurable outcomes for the people and communities you serve.

Solutions for Your Challenges 

We know the challenges you face: increasing demands, limited resources, and ever-changing regulations. AHP turns these obstacles into opportunities. We provide tailored services to enhance operational efficiency, expand service delivery, and meet compliance standards. Our team excels at tackling issues such as workforce shortages, service integration, and data-driven decision-making. Let us be your partner in achieving sustainable solutions that improve outcomes and advance your mission. 

How We Make It Happen 

At AHP, we are primed to create a comprehensive set of solutions tailored to the unique needs of your employees and your organization. We can help you develop a strategy based on education, prevention, intervention, culture change, advocacy, and recovery support to help workers stay in recovery and in the workplace.

AHPs approach begins with listening. We work closely with clients to understand their goals and priorities. Leveraging decades of experience and a multidisciplinary team of experts, we craft solutions that align with your organizations mission and values. Our services span research and evaluation, program design, workforce development, technical assistance, and policy innovation. Whether guiding strategic initiatives or implementing evidence-based practices, we bring creativity, rigor, and a focus on results.

 

Our track record includes: 

  • Designing innovative programs to address behavioral health challenges, social determinants of health, and equity concerns, ensuring holistic and person-centered care for individuals and communities. 
  • Enhancing workforce capacity through training, technical assistance, and leadership development that empower teams to excel in meeting the evolving demands of health and human services. 
  • Evaluating complex programs with rigorous methodologies to measure outcomes, identify opportunities for improvement, and demonstrate impact and accountability to stakeholders. 
  • Implementing integrated care models that break down silos between behavioral health, physical health, and social services, improving client outcomes. 
  • Driving policy innovation to support system change, helping organizations navigate regulatory landscapes and shape strategies that align with best practices and emerging trends. 

AHP’s tailored support helps build your success, turning your mission into measurable impact.  

 

Lets Build a Brighter Future Together 

Discover how AHP can empower your organization to make a lasting impact. We bring decades of experience, a commitment to equity, and a collaborative approach to every engagement. Together, we can build systems that create better outcomes for individuals and communities. Ready to take the next step? Lets start the conversation.

Partner with AHP to transform your potential. 

This Is Not an Isolated Problem

Almost 50 million Americans experience SUDs, and more than 6 million people currently have an OUD.2 The economic burden of prescription drug misuse costs an estimated $78.5 billion per year between costs of healthcare, treatment, and lost productivity.3

Some Industries Are Hit Harder Than Others

Industries that may employ higher numbers of workers with SUDs include mining, construction, accommodations and food services, entertainment and recreation, utilities, and wholesale trade, management, manufacturing, and forestry, fishing, and hunting among others.4

Take Action Now

It is imperative that leaders in all industries act now. While developing effective solutions can be challenging, doing nothing will only continue to make the problem worse. AHP is ready to help you create and deploy a comprehensive and customized strategy to educate workers, prevent addiction, intervene in critical moments, and provide support for employees in recovery, moving toward a future where American workers are no longer at risk from the dangers of SUDs.

AHP Case Study: Opioids in the Workforce, National Association of Home Builders

AHP assisted the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) in their industry’s effort to address the prevailing opioid epidemic among its workforce. We provided tools, resources, and options for addressing the epidemic, such as education, employee benefits, and technology for NAHB members to use within their teams.

 

1 Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. (2020). Michigan Opioids Task Force annual report, p. 5. https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Folder4/Folder28/Folder3/Folder128/Folder2/Folder228/Folder1/Folder328/Michigan-Opioids-Task-Force-Report.pdf?rev=3ece06433a5544a59eb6969979051b5b 

2 Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2023). Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: A companion infographic. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt42730/2022-nsduh-infographic-report.pdf  

3 Florence, C. S., Zhou, C., Luo, F., & Xu, L. (2016). The economic burden of prescription opioid overdose, abuse, and dependence in the United States, 2013. Medical Care, 54(10), 901–906. https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0000000000000625  

4 Bush, D. M., & Lipari, R. N. (2015, April 16). Substance use and substance use disorder by industry. The CBHSQ Report, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1959/ShortReport-1959.pdf 

About Us

Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) creates powerful solutions to improve health and human services systems. By partnering with the federal government, states, municipalities, healthcare systems, and nonprofits, we help people experiencing the greatest disadvantages lead full and productive lives. We are national leaders in training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, publishing, and dedicated consulting. On issues from workforce development to mental health, substance use disorders to housing and homelessness, we help our clients enhance behavioral health care through systems change. AHP was founded nearly 40 years ago to develop solutions for some of the biggest social infrastructure challenges across the nation. Our company has offices in metro Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Find out more at www.ahpnet.com.

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