Covering Wisconsin uses outreach, education, and enrollment assistance to improve the publics ability to access use and keep health insurance coverage improving their physical and financial health. - For this Cooperative Agreement for FY25 through FY29, Covering Wisconsin (CWI) is the lead applicant of the CWI Navigator Consortium (the “Consortium”). CWI is a program of an institution of higher education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, and has been operating as a federally funded Navigator entity since 2014. The CWI Consortium includes 10 agencies strategically located around the state of Wisconsin: CWI, ABC for Rural Health, Centro Hispano of Dane County, Family Health Center, Feeding America of Eastern Wisconsin, Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, Northern Wisconsin Concentrated Economic Program, Partnership Community Health Center, Progressive Community Health Center, and Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service. CWI requests $3,200,000 in total funding for the Consortium for Year 1 of the five-year budget period and for each of the remaining years thereafter. The Consortium operates statewide, serving consumers in all 72 counties throughout the entire FFE state of Wisconsin. CWI Navigators provide enrollment and post-enrollment services to any consumer seeking assistance, along with broad-based outreach to reach, educate, and inform consumers. The CWI Consortium focuses on several priority populations, including the following: Black/African American, Latine/Hispanic origin, Asian Hmong origin, Indigenous/American Indian; refugees/immigrants; LGBTQ+ persons; low-income, lower literacy, housing insecure, persons recently unemployed or leaving incarceration; farmers, farm workers and rural residents; pregnant persons; young adults; those who are Medicaid-eligible; and those approaching Medicare age eligibility. The Consortium operates with 29.45 FTE Navigators (44 individuals). Ten individual Navigators are bilingual in Spanish, three are bilingual in Hmong, and four have Tribal membership or heritage. Number of active Navigator staff to be federally trained and certified/re-certified by October 1, 2024: (a) Total number of federally-trained and certified/re-certified Navigators: 44 Navigators (b) Out of the total number listed in (a), how many Navigators will be paid full-time/100% from Navigator grant funds: 7 Navigators (c) Out of the total number listed in (a), how many Navigators will be paid part-time from Navigator grant funds: 36 Navigators (d) Out of the total number listed in (a), how many Navigators will be volunteers/not paid from Navigator grant funds: 1 Navigator
