AHP Solutions: Understanding Policy Implications
From federal and state behavioral health agencies to local and commercial organizations, interpretating new laws, regulations, and their implications can create unnecessary barriers to access. The complexity of legal language and its day-to-day application can result in the loss of federal and state initiatives and funding opportunities. As leaders, clinicians, and policymakers, we have firsthand experience navigating policy interpretation and application, and come to this issue equipped with both technical and personal knowledge of the populations you serve.
For more than 35 years, Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) has been improving health and human services systems of care and business operations to help organizations and individuals reach their full potential. Our experts have a thorough understanding of high-level policy language and are skilled at deconstructing its implications so that you don’t have to.
Policy Development to Application
AHP has extensive experience in tracking, supporting development, interpreting, translating, and applying policy at federal, state, and local levels. We can eliminate the high-stakes guesswork that often arises when dealing with policy interpretation and development, offering reliable and foundational policy insight.
Tap into our expertise in research and evaluation, training, and technical assistance. Our team can assist you with the following:
- Assessing system operations
- Identifying and analyzing problem areas
- Making recommendations for policy, program, regulatory, and reimbursement changes
Specialists from our Research and Evaluation and Center for Training, Technical Assistance, and Consulting teams seamlessly join your team to facilitate effective service delivery and improve outcomes for vulnerable populations.
We Make Transparency Easy
We will help you to apply clinical, technological, cultural, and political context to your service landscape. Through this collaboration, AHP translates policy implications into common language accessible to all stakeholders. This shared understanding increases your ability to serve disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, including those experiencing homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorders, incarceration and reentry, discrimination, and more.
Adhering to Privacy and Security Regulations
AHP will help you in developing custom protocols that are culturally competent while adhering to privacy and data security regulations. This may include protocols for collecting client consent, securely storing data, obtaining regulatory approvals, and more.
Assessing Policy Implications
While some laws and regulations may outline policy change requirements straightforwardly, it is important to remember that even more abstract events, such as new initiatives like efforts to provide housing solutions for individuals experiencing homelessness, can have equally important policy implications that must be considered and applied in practice.
How it Works
Our multidisciplinary teams, including administrators and clinicians with lived experience, will collaborate with you to implement programs and initiatives in line with applicable laws and regulations, develop policies, and assess their impacts. We will help you manage multilevel data collection to inform policy, laying the groundwork for future policy improvements to meet the changing needs of the behavioral health care field and its constituents.
Our national experts can help you:
- Track developing policy in your state
- Form stakeholder groups for input and to help shape policy
- Turn policy into regulations
- Communicate with key stakeholders about policy and implementation
- Apply policy to public health and safety
A Shared Vision
Don’t let complicated laws and regulations keep you from investigating and taking advantage of the opportunities to enhance services and improve access for those who need it most. Our policy experts are prepared and enthusiastic about applying their wealth of knowledge to your situation, translating what may seem unintelligible into an inspiring, and most importantly, actionable plan for change.
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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