Grants

MIG Continuation 2010
MIG Continuation 2009

Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) 2008

The Medicaid Infrastructure Grant program was created to provide financial assistance to States to facilitate the competitive employment of people with disabilities through (a) Medicaid buy-in opportunities under the Medicaid State plan, (b) significant improvements to Medicaid services that support people with disabilities in their competitive employment efforts, and (c) providing comprehensive coordinated approaches across programs to removing barriers to employment for individuals with a disability.

Iowa's Medicaid Infrastructure Grant: Working Together So All Can Work

Major Areas of Activity:
Iowans with disabilities and stakeholders, working in partnership with other state and local government and service agency staff, will achieve project outcomes by focusing on four major areas of activity described in this grant narrative.

Overall Outcomes:

• Increase in number of Iowans with disabilities employed in competitive jobs.
• Increase in earnings of Iowa’s Medicaid members with disabilities.

Community-Based Alternatives To Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Grant

Through this grant proposal, the State of Iowa envisions offering an opportunity to children/youth residing in the State�s psychiatric medical institutions for children that none have ever fully realized. That opportunity is to live in their homes and communities with a system of supports to surround them.

Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment Grant - November 30, 2006

This grant is a joint proposal by DHS, Department of Corrections and Iowa Workforce Development to provide Medicaid benefits and other transitional and vocational supports to inmates with a serious mental illness after they leave prison.  The goal is to help them manage their mental illness so that they will remain employed, and thereby avoid lifetime dependence upon cash assistance programs such as SSI. (Appendices available upon request.)

Money Follows the Person-Partnership for Community Integration

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2006 has opened new options for States to rebalance their long-term support programs to allow their Medicaid programs to be more sustainable while helping individuals achieve independence.  The Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration is part of a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to assist States, in collaboration with stakeholders, to make widespread changes to their long term care support system.

Medicaid Transformation Grant � October 2006

Section 6081 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) provides funding for Medicaid Transformation Grants. States may apply for these funds for special projects designed to be aligned with today�s Medicaid populations and the health care environment. The Iowa Medicaid Program has submitted requests for funding for four (4) such grants. These applications and the attendant cover letter are found below: