Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment (NCBOE), 44808-44809 [2023-14831]
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• Advancing innovative models that
support local volunteer programs that
provide non-medical care to assist
caregivers, older adults, and/or persons
with disabilities.
Since inception of the National
Volunteer Care Corps project, the Oasis
Institute has supported 75 local projects
around the country providing services
to over 22,000 people. Several
innovative models have emerged since
the establishment of the program. ACL
is interested in concentrating attention
on a special volunteer model that is
focused around building a network of
screened and trained volunteer
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and adults with disabilities in need to
and from non-emergency medical
appointments and outpatient
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amount of $1,337,500 and will provide
sufficient resources to enable the
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volunteer chaperone volunteer model.
Dated: July 8, 2023.
Alison Barkoff,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary
for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2023–14830 Filed 7–12–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Announcing the Intent To Award a
Single-Source Supplement for the
National Center for Benefits Outreach
and Enrollment (NCBOE)
ACTION:
Notice.
The Administration for
Community Living (ACL) announces the
intent to award a single-source
supplemental to the current cooperative
agreement held by the National Council
on Aging (NCOA) for the National
Center for Benefits Outreach and
Enrollment (NCBOE). The purpose of
the NCBOE is to provide technical
assistance to states, Area Agencies on
Aging, Aging and Disability Resource
Centers and service providers who
conduct outreach and low-income
benefits enrollment assistance,
particularly to older individuals with
greatest economic need for federal and
state programs. The administrative
supplement for FY 2023 will be for
$1,932,521, bringing the total award for
FY 2023 to $13,432,521.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or comments
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regarding this program supplement,
contact Margaret Flowers, U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services, Administration for
Community Living, Center for
Innovation and Partnership, Office of
Healthcare Information and Counseling;
telephone (202) 795–7315; email
Margaret.flowers@acl.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
supplemental funding will expand the
NCBOE’s outreach and education efforts
targeting older adults with the greatest
economic need, especially people from
underserved communities. The NCBOE
will build on current efforts to reach
and assist beneficiaries, including
expanding the work of the Benefits
Enrollment Centers, making
enhancements to the benefits eligibility
and screening tool, and expanding the
capacity of the benefits call center.
With this supplemental funding, the
NCBOE will develop specialized
training and tools related to retirement
security for older adults with low and
moderate incomes. This work will build
on current efforts to reach and assist
beneficiaries with benefits by expanding
on the retirement security project begun
in 2023. This may include but is not
limited to activities such as developing
materials, providing technical
assistance, and conducting a pilot with
select community-based organizations.
As part of this work, the NCBOE should
reflect on the equity assessment
conducted in 2021 to identify specific
strategies to reach and enroll
beneficiaries in rural communities, who
are under 65, with limited English
proficiency, from tribal communities,
from communities of color, and/or from
other historically underserved and
marginalized communities. The NCBOE
should collaborate with ACL and the
administration to coordinate planned
and emerging efforts to help older adults
with low and moderate incomes with
retirement planning. The NCBOE will
continue, expand, and complete the
work they are currently undertaking
with the NCBOE award without
disrupting services.
Program Name: The National Center
for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment
(NCBOE).
Recipient: National Council on Aging
(NCOA).
Period of Performance: The award
will be issued for the current project
period of September 1, 2023 through
August 31, 2024.
Total Award Amount: $13,432,521 in
FY 2023.
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement
Supplement.
Statutory Authority: The statutory
authority is contained in the 2006
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Reauthorization of the Older Americans
Act and the Medicare Improvements for
Patients and Providers Act of 2008, as
amended by the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act of 2010, and
reauthorized by the American Taxpayer
Relief Act of 2012, Protecting Access to
Medicare Act of 2014, Bipartisan Budget
Act of 2018, and Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security (CARES)
Act of 2020, and Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2021.
Basis for Award: The National
Council on Aging (NCOA) is currently
funded to carry out the NCBOE Project
for the period of September 1, 2020
through August 31, 2025. Much work
has already been completed and further
tasks are currently being accomplished.
It would be unnecessarily timeconsuming and disruptive to the
NCBOE project and the beneficiaries
being served for ACL to establish a new
grantee at this time when critical
services are presently being provided in
an efficient manner.
NCOA is uniquely placed to complete
the work under the NCBOE grant. Since
2001, NCOA has been the national
leader in improving benefits access to
vulnerable older adults. They have an
unparalleled history of working with
community-based organizations to
develop and replicate outreach and
enrollment solutions while maintaining
and enhancing technology to make it
easier and more efficient to find
benefits. NCOA through NCBOE
accomplishes its mission by developing
and sharing tools, resources, best
practices, and strategies for benefits
outreach and enrollment via its online
clearinghouse, electronic and print
publications, webinars, and training and
technical assistance.
In addition, NCOA has
BenefitsCheckUp which is, by far, the
nation’s most comprehensive and
widely-used web-based service that
screens older and disabled adults with
limited incomes and resources and
informs them about public and private
benefits for which they are very likely
to be eligible. Since the
BenefitsCheckUp was launched in 2001,
nearly 9.9 million people have
discovered over $42 billion in benefits.
In addition to the focus on Low-Income
Subsidy and Medicare Savings
Programs, BenefitsCheckUp also
includes more than 2,500 benefits
programs from all 50 states and DC,
including over 50,000 local offices for
people to apply for benefits; and more
than 1,500 application forms in every
language in which they are available.
NCOA is successfully meeting all
programmatic goals under the current
NCBOE grant.
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Dated: July 8, 2023.
Alison Barkoff,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary
for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2023–14831 Filed 7–12–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Statement of Organization, Functions,
and Delegations of Authority
This notice amends Part R of the
Statement of Organization, Functions
and Delegations of Authority of the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) (60 FR
56605, as amended November 6, 1995;
as last amended at 88 FR 10124–10125
dated February 16, 2023).
This reorganization updates the
functions within the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau, Maternal and Child
Health Workforce Development.
Chapter RM—Maternal Child Health
Bureau
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Section RM.20 Function
Delete the functional statement for the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (RM),
Division of Maternal and Child Health
Workforce Development (RM4) in its
entirety and replace with the following:
Division of Maternal and Child Health
Workforce Development (RM4)
The Division of Maternal and Child
Health Workforce Development
provides national leadership and
direction in educating and training our
nation’s current and future leaders in
maternal and child health (MCH). The
Division also provides leadership
through state and community-based
capacity building programs. Special
emphasis is placed on the development
and implementation of
interprofessional, family- and personcentered, community-based and
culturally responsive systems of care
across the life course.
The Division supports programs
established and/or expanded in federal
law to complement state and local
health efforts. The Division partners
with state MCH programs, academic
institutions, professional organizations,
and other health training programs of
the federal government to ensure that
the MCH workforce development
programs are grounded in emerging and
evidence-based practices. Specifically,
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the Division carries out the following
activities related to these programs: (1)
supports a continuum of training
investments to develop MCH leaders at
the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels and workforce
development investments for practicing
professionals in the areas of public
health, clinical practice, teaching,
research, and/or administration/policy
designed to promote and improve the
health and well-being of infants,
children, adolescents, children with
special health care needs, and
transition-age youth and young adults;
(2) provides grants that support
innovative, community-based initiatives
to improve the health of infants,
children, adolescents, and their families
in rural and other underserved
communities by increasing access to
preventive care and services; (3)
develops policies and guidelines and
promotes standards through
professional and public education and
training activities for the Bureau; (4)
develops, coordinates and implements
technical assistance and consultation to
state and local agencies and
organizations or groups concerned with
the promotion of health and prevention
of disease among infants, children,
adolescents, children with special
health care needs, and transition-age
youth and young adults; (5) provides
national guidance and leadership in
addressing MCH public health
workforce needs; (6) accounts for the
administration of funds and other
resources for grants, contracts,
cooperative agreements and
programmatic consultation and
assistance; (7) coordinates with other
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
divisions and offices in promoting
program objectives and the mission of
the Bureau; (8) provides liaison with
public, private, professional and
voluntary organizations on programs
and activities; (9) disseminates
information and resources on its
training and workforce development
activities grantees, partners, and
stakeholders; and (10) participates in
the development of strategic plans,
regulatory activities, policies, legislative
proposals, and budget submissions.
Section RM.30 Delegation of Authority
All delegations of authority and redelegations of authority made to
officials and employees of affected
organizational components will
continue in them or their successors
pending further redelegation, if allowed,
provided they are consistent with this
reorganization.
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This reorganization is effective upon
date of signature.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101)
Carole Johnson,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2023–14845 Filed 7–12–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Enhancing Systems of Care for
Children With Medical Complexity
Coordinating Center Funding
Supplement
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Announcing supplemental
funding for Enhancing Systems of Care
for Children with Medical Complexity
Coordinating Center.
AGENCY:
HRSA will provide
supplemental funding to the Enhancing
Systems of Care for Children with
Medical Complexity Coordinating
Center during fiscal year 2023 to
provide training, resources, and
education to support states in their
efforts to sustainably finance patient/
family centered health care homes for
children with medical complexity
(CMC).
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Maria Padlan, Public Health
Analyst, Division of Services for
Children with Special Health Needs,
Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
Health Resources and Services
Administration, at APadlan@hrsa.gov
and 301–443–1737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient(s) of the Award:
AcademyHealth.
Amount of Non-Competitive
Award(s): $450,000/year. Supplemental
funding for similar activities may be
considered in fiscal year 2024, subject to
availability of funding for the activity
and satisfactory performance of the
recipient.
Project Period: September 1, 2023, to
August 31, 2024.
Assistance Listing (CFDA) Number:
93.110.
Award Instrument: Supplement for
Services.
Authority: Social Security Act, Title
V, Section§ 501(a)(2) (42 U.S.C.
701(a)(2).
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[FR Doc No: 2023-14831]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the
National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment (NCBOE)
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the
intent to award a single-source supplemental to the current cooperative
agreement held by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) for the National
Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment (NCBOE). The purpose of the
NCBOE is to provide technical assistance to states, Area Agencies on
Aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers and service providers who
conduct outreach and low-income benefits enrollment assistance,
particularly to older individuals with greatest economic need for
federal and state programs. The administrative supplement for FY 2023
will be for $1,932,521, bringing the total award for FY 2023 to
$13,432,521.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or comments
regarding this program supplement, contact Margaret Flowers, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community
Living, Center for Innovation and Partnership, Office of Healthcare
Information and Counseling; telephone (202) 795-7315; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This supplemental funding will expand the
NCBOE's outreach and education efforts targeting older adults with the
greatest economic need, especially people from underserved communities.
The NCBOE will build on current efforts to reach and assist
beneficiaries, including expanding the work of the Benefits Enrollment
Centers, making enhancements to the benefits eligibility and screening
tool, and expanding the capacity of the benefits call center.
With this supplemental funding, the NCBOE will develop specialized
training and tools related to retirement security for older adults with
low and moderate incomes. This work will build on current efforts to
reach and assist beneficiaries with benefits by expanding on the
retirement security project begun in 2023. This may include but is not
limited to activities such as developing materials, providing technical
assistance, and conducting a pilot with select community-based
organizations. As part of this work, the NCBOE should reflect on the
equity assessment conducted in 2021 to identify specific strategies to
reach and enroll beneficiaries in rural communities, who are under 65,
with limited English proficiency, from tribal communities, from
communities of color, and/or from other historically underserved and
marginalized communities. The NCBOE should collaborate with ACL and the
administration to coordinate planned and emerging efforts to help older
adults with low and moderate incomes with retirement planning. The
NCBOE will continue, expand, and complete the work they are currently
undertaking with the NCBOE award without disrupting services.
Program Name: The National Center for Benefits Outreach and
Enrollment (NCBOE).
Recipient: National Council on Aging (NCOA).
Period of Performance: The award will be issued for the current
project period of September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024.
Total Award Amount: $13,432,521 in FY 2023.
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement Supplement.
Statutory Authority: The statutory authority is contained in the
2006 Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act and the Medicare
Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, as amended by the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and reauthorized by
the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, Protecting Access to Medicare
Act of 2014, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, and Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, and Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2021.
Basis for Award: The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is currently
funded to carry out the NCBOE Project for the period of September 1,
2020 through August 31, 2025. Much work has already been completed and
further tasks are currently being accomplished. It would be
unnecessarily time-consuming and disruptive to the NCBOE project and
the beneficiaries being served for ACL to establish a new grantee at
this time when critical services are presently being provided in an
efficient manner.
NCOA is uniquely placed to complete the work under the NCBOE grant.
Since 2001, NCOA has been the national leader in improving benefits
access to vulnerable older adults. They have an unparalleled history of
working with community-based organizations to develop and replicate
outreach and enrollment solutions while maintaining and enhancing
technology to make it easier and more efficient to find benefits. NCOA
through NCBOE accomplishes its mission by developing and sharing tools,
resources, best practices, and strategies for benefits outreach and
enrollment via its online clearinghouse, electronic and print
publications, webinars, and training and technical assistance.
In addition, NCOA has BenefitsCheckUp which is, by far, the
nation's most comprehensive and widely-used web-based service that
screens older and disabled adults with limited incomes and resources
and informs them about public and private benefits for which they are
very likely to be eligible. Since the BenefitsCheckUp was launched in
2001, nearly 9.9 million people have discovered over $42 billion in
benefits. In addition to the focus on Low-Income Subsidy and Medicare
Savings Programs, BenefitsCheckUp also includes more than 2,500
benefits programs from all 50 states and DC, including over 50,000
local offices for people to apply for benefits; and more than 1,500
application forms in every language in which they are available. NCOA
is successfully meeting all programmatic goals under the current NCBOE
grant.
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Dated: July 8, 2023.
Alison Barkoff,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2023-14831 Filed 7-12-23; 8:45 am]
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