Organization: ARIZONA COUNCIL OF HUMAN SERVICE PROVIDERS
Mission: MEMBER ADVOCACY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Activities: The Arizona Council of Human Service Providers (Council) represents the interests of member agencies. Member agencies include: Child Welfare, Behavioral Health, Substance Use treatment, Whole Person Integrated Health Care, Health Plans, Prevention and Early Intervention and Juvenile Justice providers. These organizations deliver health and human services to children, adults and families throughout the state, often serving the most vulnerable and "at risk" populations. The Council provides its members with information, support, advocacy and education to enhance and positively impact their work, See Schedule O for details.
The Az Council engages in public policy advocacy at the state and national level on behalf of its member agencies. To impact legislation, most of the effort is on grass roots lobbying. There is some limited direct lobbying. Over 80% of the lobbying or advocacy effort is directed at the regulatory process, not at legislation. The members of the Council provide publicly funded behavioral health and child welfare services. They are heavily impacted by regulations and policies enacted by state agencies. That is the primary focus of the Council's advocacy effort by staff and independent contractors. Staff of the Council, and of member agencies and independent contractorsm, serve on work groups and committees and meet regularly with the staff of the Arizona Department of Health Services, See PartIII Ln 4b statement.
To encourage its memebers to engage in public policy efforts, the Council organizes a Day at the Capitol so that its member agencies can meet with legislators. The Council sends out information on legislation, regulations and policies so that its members can express their views to their elected officials. The amount of time spent by Council staff in direct lobbying is minimal (less than 3%). See Schedule O for details.
NTEE category: Human Services
Secondary category: Food, Agriculture & Nutrition