IMPORTANT: Look for your child’s Medicaid or CHIP renewal in the mail, complete it and mail it back immediately. They may be covered even if you’re not! Every child currently covered by Medicaid or CHIP will need to go through a renewal process within the next several months. Keep your child covered and healthy. Complete the renewal as soon as you get it in the mail! Go to Medicaid.gov/renewals to find contact information for your state Medicaid office.

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2011 Cycle II Grants

On August 18. 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $40 million in grants for efforts to identify and enroll children eligible for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Grants were awarded to 39 state agencies, community health centers, school-based organizations and non-profit groups in 23 states.

The grants support outreach support activities that find and enroll eligible children and the grants were made in five focus areas:

  1. Using technology to facilitate enrollment and renewal (approximately $20 million to ten grantees)
  2. Retaining eligible children in coverage (approximately $3 million to four grantees);
  3. Engaging schools in outreach, enrollment and renewal activities (approximately $5 million to seven grantees)
  4. Reaching children who are most likely to experience gaps in coverage (approximately $10 million to fourteen grantees)
  5. Ensuring eligible teens are enrolled and stay covered (approximately $3 million to four grantees).

Grant amounts range from $200,000 to $2.5 million with the largest grants going to the technology focus area

Summary of the Awards

  • $40 million in 23 states
  • 39 grants
  • Awarded to state agencies, community health centers, school-based organizations and non-profit groups in five focus areas:
    1. Using technology to facilitate enrollment and renewal;
    2. Retaining eligible children in coverage;
    3. Engaging schools in outreach, enrollment and renewal activities;
    4. Reaching children who are most likely to experience gaps in coverage; and
    5. Ensuring eligible teens are enrolled and stay covered.