CMS-10398 (#7) Cycle III Final Report Addendum

CHIPRA
Cycle III Outreach & Enrollment Grant
Final Report Addendum

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All Focus Area 1–5 Grantees providing application assistance, please answer Questions 1 through 7. If you are a Focus Area 5 Grantee, and your organization is not providing application assistance, please indicate here with an X and skip to Questions 8 through 12: .

1. Most Effective Strategies

Question: If you had a limited amount of money and staff and had to implement just one or two of the most effective strategies you used during the grant to help children in your focus area newly enroll and stay enrolled through renewal, which would you choose to continue and why?

     

2. Most Cost-Effective Strategies

Question: If you compare the amount of grant funding you received with the number of children your grant project newly enrolled or renewed, which strategies do you think were the most cost effective? Explain why.

     

3. Continuation of Strategies after the Grant Period

Question: Will you continue implementing any grant strategies once the funding ends? If so, which strategies, and how will they be funded?

     

4. Lessons Learned

Question: What are the most important things you have learned about identifying, contacting, and engaging eligible families in your focus area to assist them with the application and renewal process for CHIP/Medicaid?

     

5. Primary Challenges to Increasing the Percentage of Eligible Children Enrolled and Retained and the Most Effective Approaches to Overcome Them

Question: Looking ahead over the next 3 years, what do you think are the key challenges to increasing the percentage of eligible children enrolled in CHIP/Medicaid in your state?

Please discuss all types of challenges: state policies, cultural belief, language, transportation, administrative, and funding challenges. Please discuss how these challenges relate to the children in your grant’s specific focus area.

For each challenge, what do you believe are the most effective approaches to overcome them?

     

6. Recommendations for Increasing the Percentage of Eligible Children Enrolled and Renewed

Question: What recommendations can you make through lessons you have learned that would be helpful to other organizations that want to implement projects to increase the percentage of eligible children enrolled and renewed in CHIP/Medicaid in terms of: planning the project, educating families, getting known in the community, marketing, and establishing partnerships/collaborations?

     

7. Project Implementation and Management

Question: If you were able to access a future funding opportunity to help children enroll in CHIP/Medicaid, how might you change your approach to program implementation and management?

     

For Focus Areas 1, 2, 3, and 4 Grantees, stop here. For Focus Area 5 Grantees, please answer the following questions.

8. Training Curriculum Content and Technical Assistance

Question: Did you tailor your training program to specific groups? If so, how? What do you think were the key elements that made your training program successful for specific groups? What do you think are the most effective approaches to providing trainees with ongoing technical assistance?

     

9. Training Curriculum Changes

Question: What were the most significant changes, if any, you made 1) to your trainee recruitment strategies and 2) to your training curriculum over the course of the grant period? Do you think that the changes you made resulted in more individuals or organizations receiving training? Do you think that the changes you made to the training curriculum improved individuals’ and organizations’ capabilities to assist families seeking CHIP/Medicaid coverage? If yes, please explain.

     

10. Administrative and Technical Challenges

Question: What challenges have you faced 1) developing and implementing a training curriculum and 2) recruiting trainees? Please discuss all types of challenges, including administrative, technological, and other challenges. For each challenge, what do you believe is the most effective approach to overcome it?

     

11. Conducting Trainings: Lessons Learned

Question: What are the most important things you have learned about planning, developing, and executing a grant project focused on training individuals and organizations to help families understand application and enrollment systems and to deliver application assistance? What are the most important lessons you have learned about recruiting trainees? What recommendations would you make as a result of these lessons learned to another organization considering a similar project?

     

12. Continuation of Trainings after the Grant Period

Question: Will you continue any trainings once the funding ends? If so, which trainings and how will they be funded?