Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships program. The purpose of the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships is to strengthen collaboration between state Medicaid, Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (Title V) programs and advance innovative financing strategies that improve outcomes and reduce health disparities for maternal and child health (MCH) populations. The award recipient will build knowledge and shared priorities between state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs and provide one-to-one, state-specific tailored capacity-building assistance directly to state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs to support MCH. Support will include: (1) engaging state Title V, Medicaid, and CHIP programs to identify shared priorities and foster a common understanding of needs, opportunities, and best practices; (2) one-to-one, state-specific, tailored assistance to advance MCH financing; (3) support the development of innovative collaborative models leveraging HRSA, CHIP, and Medicaid funding, and (4) one-to-one capacity-building assistance to advance interagency agreements required by statute.