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HHS
Announces $40 Million CHIPRA Outreach and Enrollment
Grant Opportunity
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Yesterday
(July 6), the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced
the availability of up to $40 million in Children's Health Insurance
Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) outreach and enrollment grants.
These grants will be awarded to recipients - including states, local
governments, Indian tribes or tribal consortiums, federal health safety
net organizations, non-profit organizations, faith-based groups, schools
and others - who can provide demonstrated ability to identify and provide
outreach, enrollment, and program retention to eligible but unenrolled
children in Medicaid and CHIP programs. AAP chapters are eligible to
apply for this grant funding.
This
is the first cycle of such funding authorized by CHIPRA, and will cover
the budget period of September 30, 2009 - September 29, 2011. Announced
just yesterday, there is a very tight time line for applicants to apply
for this grant funding. AAP chapters interested in applying - or joining
states, other advocates, or coalitions in doing so - have until July 27,
2009 to inform HHS of an intent to apply, August 6, 2009 to file an
electronic grant application, and August 10, 2009 to mail hard copies and
a CD of grant proposal materials to HHS. Award recipients will be
announced prior to September 30, 2009.
The
HHS grant synopsis, full announcement, and application materials can be
found on the grants.gov
Web site.
HHS
indicates that award priority will be given to entities that:
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Propose to target geographic areas with high rates of eligible but
unenrolled children
* Submit evidence that the entity has access to and credibility with
ethnic or low-income populations in communities targeted for
outreach/enrollment
* Have the ability to address barriers to enrollment
* Provide specific quality or outcome performance measures to evaluate
the effectiveness of activities.
Non-state applicants are required to
include an intent to
develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with state Medicaid and CHIP
agencies for purposes of data collection or other plans to demonstrate enrollment
or retention results, as well as a letter of support from the state.
Chapters are encouraged to review the entire grant
announcement and application materals for further requirements.
Grant awards will be a minimum of $25,000, with a maximum of $1
million, averaging around $200,000, and HHS anticipates making 200 such
grant awards in total. It is likely that many states and advocacy groups will be
applying for this grant funding, so chapters are encouraged to
investigate state Medicaid and CHIP programs and other advocates
application plans to determine if there are opportunities for
collaboration.
If you have questions or need
additional information, please contact Dan Walter in the Division of
State Government Affairs at 800/433-9016 ext. 4086, or dwalter@aap.org.
The Division of State Government Affairs sends this
update to the Academy's Executive Committee, Board of Directors, District
Vice-Chairs, Chapter Presidents, Chapter Vice Presidents, Chapter
Legislative Contacts, Committee on State Government Affairs, Committee on
Federal Government Affairs, Chapter Executive Directors, and other
interested AAP members and staff.
For additional state legislative information, strategy suggestions,
in-depth resources on issues of pediatric interest, and past editions of
this update, log onto the AAP
Member Center
and see the State Government Affairs area at http://www.aap.org/moc/stgovaffairs.
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