State Health Insurance Assistance Program Performance Improvement and Innovation Grant

 

The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) provides grants to states to fund infrastructure, training, and outreach support to over 12,000 (mostly volunteer) counselors in over 1,300 community-based organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. In FY 2014, the SHIP program was transferred from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to the Administration for Community Living (ACL). SHIPs provide free, one-on-one counseling and assistance to help aging and disabled Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries as well as coming-of-agers navigate the complexities of health and long-term care systems. Services are provided via telephone and face-to-face interactive sessions, public education presentations and programs, and media activities. With this funding opportunity ACL is seeking applicants for competitive innovation and/or performance improvement grants. Eligible applicants include only current SHIP grantees. ACL anticipates funding multiple 17-month grants capped at 20% of the applicant’s FY 2014 base grant award or $250,000, whichever is lower, to improve SHIP program performance and service quality.

Deleted 08/23/2014 (Archived.) HHS-2014-ACL-CDAP-SO-0089 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Administration for Community Living Cooperative Agreement 15 This opportunity is available only to the current SHIP grantees (specifically those that received a SHIP base grant from ACL in FY 2014). Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. 07/24/2014 This program does not have cost sharing or matching requirements. Rebecca Kinney
Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov
http://www.acl.gov/Funding_Opportunities/Announcements/Index.aspx Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov $2,500,000.00 Awards range from $8,389.00 to $250,000.00