Mission Statement
The mission of the New Hampshire Local Welfare Administrators' Association is to provide and maintain support to its membership through leadership and education to assure the uniform, humane, equitable and ethical administration of RSA 165 – municipal assistance.
Values Statement
The New Hampshire Local Welfare Administrators' Association instills an empathic and empowering approach in providing assistance to those in need. The needs of those requesting assistance shall be met in the most beneficial and cost efficient manner possible, while respecting the confidentiality of the applicants. This is accomplished through fair and uniform application of the law and guidelines, while providing support and direction in necessary life skills for applicants by trained and educated welfare administrators.
History of Welfare
RSA 165 indicates the following:
Whenever a person in any town is poor and unable to support himself, he shall be relieved and maintained by the overseers of public welfare of such town, whether or not he has residence there.
This statute has been in effect in one way, shape or form for over 200 years. Each municipality is required to provide general assistance under this statute and develop guidelines to administer said assistance. The New Hampshire Local Welfare Administrators' Association has been providing education and training to municipal welfare administrators for the benefit of both the applicant and the community. |
Monthly Meeting
Reminder – there is
no monthly meeting in December. Look here in
a
few weeks for details
of the next monthly
meeting, January 15, 2009, featuring
a presentation on
Fair Hearings.
Bob Loranger
We are sad to report yet another loss of a beloved friend and long-serving Welfare Administrator. Bob Loranger, the recently retired welfare administrator of Salem, passed away while on a vacation trip in Arizona on November 1, 2008. Click here for more details.
"NH DHHS Announces the
ACCES: Front Door Project"
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has begun a Process Improvement project that is carefully looking at the Department's "Front Door." NHLWAA President Keith Bates is serving in an advisory capacity to this project. For information, please see:
http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/
DHHS/DHHS_SITE/acces.htm
Presentations from the monthly meetings are now being recorded. Click here to listen to the audio from the April meeting. Links can also be found on the monthly meeting page.
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