Open Forum: Getting Your Questions Answered March 8, 2004

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Open Forum Getting Your Questions
AnsweredMarch 8, 2004
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Application Guidelines

• Available at www.cashandcounseling.org
• Provide a template for full proposal
• Title Page and Summary
• Body of Proposal
• Background
• Planning and Implementation
• Systems Support and Infrastructure
• Looking to the Future
• Attachments

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Submitting the Full Proposal

• Full proposals are due March 31, 2004
• Submit electronically to Kristin Simone via email
  simonek_at_bc.edu
• Mail 5 hard copies of the complete proposal to
  the Cash Counseling National Program Office

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Getting Your Questions Answered

• Contact Kristin Simone, Deputy Program Director,
  at 617.552.0620 or via email at simonek_at_bc.edu
• General program information, research reports,
  and Frequently Asked Questions are available at
  www.cashandcounseling.org

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Who is here to answer your questions?

• The National Program Office
• Barbara Schneider
• State Liaison Mentor
• Participated in site visits for the
  implementation analyses and quality projects
• Special interest in the role of the consultant
  and relationships to consumers and fiscal agents
• Barbara Phillips
• State Liaison Mentor
• Responsible for analyses of the implementation of
  Cash Counseling in Arkansas, New Jersey and
  Florida
• Provided TA for original states with respect to
  establishing budget neutrality for 1115 waivers

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Who is here to answer your questions?

• Tom Reimers
• Director of the Division of Volunteer Community
  Services for Florida Department of Elder Affairs
• Served as project Director for Floridas Cash and
  Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Project
• Kari Benson
• Lead Administration on Aging staff for Cash
  Counseling Program
• Policy Analyst with the Center for Planning and
  Policy Development at the Administration on Aging
• Stacy Dale
• Researcher for Mathematica, Policy Inc.
• Expertise in Cash Counseling programs impacts
  on service use, costs, hired workers and
  caregivers

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Who is here to answer your questions?

• Members of the CMS Self-Directed Task Force
• Deidra Abbott
• Acting Director Division of Benefits, Payments
  Coverage
• Oversees work related to the 1915 (c) waivers
  state plan services
• Anita Yuskauskas
• Health Insurance Specialist for Division of
  Benefits, Payments and Coverage
• Technical lead for self-direction and
  Independence Plus activities regarding 1915 (c)
  waivers

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Who is here to answer your questions?

• Ed Hutton
• Technical Director, Division of Integrated Health
  Systems
• Provides technical direction for 1115
  demonstrations in DEHPG
• Marguerite Schervish
• Health Insurance Specialist in the Division of
  Integrated Health Systems within the Disabled and
  Elderly Health Programs
• Concentrates in processing state applications for
  1115 demonstration programs.
• Shawn Terrell
• Technical Advisor for Self-Direction
• Assists CMS in developing self-direction
  initiatives for persons with mental illness and
  other disabilities

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How to Access CMS

• Please contact Anita Yuskauskas with any
  questions you may have regarding Cash
  Counseling and CMS
• ayuskauskas_at_cms.hhs.gov
• 410-786-0268
• If necessary, Anita will refer questions to the
  appropriate CMS staff member

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Remember!

• Full Proposals are due on March 31, 2004
• Frequently asked questions are available on the
  website at www.cashandcounseling.org
• The audio archive, text transcript and the
  PowerPoint presentation from todays telecast
  will all be available on the website in the grant
  reference library
• Contact Kristin Simone with any questions you may
  have at simonek_at_bc.edu or 617-552-0620