List will be used to update stakeholders on NFI related activities.
| 02/22/2008 | New Freedom Initiative (NFI) E-mail Updates | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has changed the system it uses to to send out e-mail updates (listserv messages). You were formerly a member of one of the following lists managed by the Disabled and Elderly health Programs Group: Systems Change Grantees, Medicaid Infrastructure Grant Grantees, Systems Change Grant Conference Attendees, HCBS State Contacts, or State Medicaid Directors. Those lists have been combined under the new sysem into the New Freedom Initiative (NFI) list. We hope that you find our periodic updates useful and informative. |  |
| 02/25/2008 | Direct Service Worker Symposium - General Registration is now open! | The National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center, with the support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Labor, will host a National Symposium on Strengthening the HCBS Direct Service Workforce on May 8-9, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, click on the link at the top of this e-mail. | N/A |
| 02/25/2008 | New Internet Resource for Developing Integrated Care Delivery Systems | We are pleased to share with you a new internet resource for use in the design and development of integrated care delivery systems. For more information, click on the link at the top of this e-mail. | N/A |
| 04/18/2008 | FY 2008 Real Choice Systems Change and Aging and Disability Resource Center/Area Aging Grant RFP | CMS has available approximately thirteen million dollars in available funding to continue to support States' efforts to address complex issues in long-term care reform. In addition to approximately eight million dollars in Real Choice Systems Change Grant funding, CMS was also awarded five million dollars for Aging and Disability Resource Center/Area Agencies on Aging grants. For more information, click on the link at the top of this e-mail. | N/A |