Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
Family and Childrens Service (FCS) of Nashville, Tennessee, a community based, consumer-focused nonprofit, is a current HHS Navigator awardee under the 2021-2024 Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally facilitated Exchanges and has been a funded Navigator agency for nine years. FCS will remain the lead Navigator agency for this Cooperative Agreement award and will provide Navigator services to 1 FFE, the state of Tennessee (statewide). With increased funding from this third grant year, Family and Childrens Service (FCS) will continue the expansion of staffing and marketing outreach that happened in the second year of this cooperative agreement. FCS will hire new Navigators to expand in-person Navigator services to more locations across the state, targeting areas of high need. We will continue our highly effective statewide GetCoveredTenn outreach activities, which have resulted in tens of thousands of Tennesseans enrolling in ACA health insurance products over the past nine years. And FCS will continue its robust statewide marketing campaign to inform eligible residents of the benefits of having health insurance and how to secure affordable insurance through the Federal Marketplace. Subrecipients: Appalachian Mountain Project Access (serving Northeast Tennessee) and Cherokee Health Systems (serving East Tennessee). Total funding amount for budget year 3: $3,322,233 Populations that will be targeted: FCS, its subcontractors, and the rest of its more than 100 GetCoveredTenn network partners will focus on the following target populations: Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Rural Populations; LGBTQI+ Persons; Low Income and Homeless Persons; People with Disabilities and Impairments; Pregnant Women, New Mothers, and Women with Children; Individuals with Mental Health or Substance-related Disorders; Individuals with HIV/AIDS; Medicaid-eligible Consumers Not Enrolled in Coverage; and Individuals Involved in the Medicaid Unwinding. Counties within the State to be served: Statewide. Number of active Navigator staff to be federally trained and certified/re-certified by October 1, 2023, and throughout open enrollment (OE) which will end on January 15, 2024: FTE Navigators = 32 29 full-time (90.6%) 3 part-time (9.4%) 0 Navigators Number of active Navigator staff to be federally trained and certified/re- certified post enrollment, January 16, 2024, to the end of the budget year: FTE Navigators = 32 29 full-time (90.6%) 3 part-time (9.4%) 0 Navigators
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
