On April 17, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Real Choice Systems Change/Aging and Disability Resource Center Grant Solicitation. Applications are due no later than July 17, 2008. Please see the full solicitation below for details.

Real Choice Systems Change (RCSC) and Aging and Disability Resource Center/Area Agencies on Aging (ADRC) Grants for Fiscal Year 2008
CMS has available approximately $8 million in funding to continue to support States' efforts to address complex issues in long-term care reform. In addition, CMS was also awarded $5 million for Aging and Disability Resource Center /Area Agencies on Aging grants.

Base Grant Category: Development and Implementation of a Person-centered
Hospital Discharge Planning Model
Only one grant per State will be awarded. In addition to this base grant, two additional options are offered. States may apply for only the base grant funding, or funding under one additional option. A State may not apply for both options.

This grant solicitation builds upon the successes and direction of earlier RCSC and ADRC grant opportunities by providing targeted assistance to States' in their efforts to improve hospital discharge planning through collaboration with Aging and Disability Resource Centers, Area Agency on Aging and the Centers for Independent Living. Specifically, this grant opportunity is designed to:

Promote the development and implementation of enhanced Person-centered Hospital Discharge Planning Models that meaningfully engage Medicaid-eligible, and potentially Medicaid-eligible individuals with disabilities (and their informal caregivers) to increase their opportunity to receive home and community-based services. Also, these grants will increase the capacity of existing, or develop new, single entry points (including ADRCs) to provide critical linkages to available long-term care services in the community and much needed supports for informal caregivers themselves.  The two additional options are:

Option #1, Enhancing or Expanding Aging and Disability Resource Centers/ Single Entry Point Programs (ADRC/SEP)
Option #2, Development of a New Aging and Disability Resource Center/ Single Entry Point Program

Please see the download below for the full FY 2008 Solicitation.

Downloads
FY08 RCSC/ADRC Solicitation [PDF 212 kb] RCSC 2007 Award Summary [PDF 20 kb]
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