Grant Description, Purpose, People Served

Federal Grant Dollars in Thousands (000's)

Required State Match or MOE Y /N

Subject to Potential Sequestration Y/N/Unknown

Statewide Outcome

SFY 12

SFY 13

SFY 14

SFY 15

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -EBT Issuance

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides help with food for an average of 469,904 persons per month receiving an average monthly payment of $119.

$713,810

$715,021

$721,340

HEALTH OUTCOME

TANF Block Grant

The purposes of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant are to assist needy families with children so that children can be cared for in their own homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; to reduce and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. These funds are used to provide grants to counties and tribes to provide support services for Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)/Diversionary Work Program (DWP) participants that include job search/skills, adult basic education, GED classes, job coaching, short-term training, county programs to help with emergency needs, and help accessing other services such as child care, medical care and CD/Mental health services. In 2011, an average of more than 35,000 people were enrolled in employment services each month. TANF also helps fund the MFIP/DWP cash benefit program and child care assistance programs as well as other programs that help low-income families with children.

$252,137

$271,466

$254,318

$255,014

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Child Care Admin. & Development

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides funds to States to increase the availability, affordability, and quality of child care services for low-income families where the parents are working or attending training or educational programs. This grant helps fund the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) and Basic Sliding Fee Child Care Assistance Programs that help low-income families pay for child care so that parents may pursue employment or education leading to employment. Also funded are Child Care Development Grants that promote services to improve school readiness, and the quality and availability of child care in Minnesota. In FY 2011, an average of 19,888 families per month received child care assistance subsidies. Also in FY 2011, 22,427 parents received referrals to find child care and child care-related training was provided to 33,547 attendees through Child Care Resource & Referral agencies.

$120,332

$118,583

$114,355

$114,354

93.575-Yes 93.596 - No

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Medicaid Services

Medicaid program grants provide health and long term care coverage to an average of 600,000 uninsured or underinsured Minnesotans who meet income eligibility requirements. This program is managed by the state under guidance from the federal government. The amounts reported here are the federal share of spending for this joint federal-state program.

$4,371,774

$4,364,304

$5,216,239

$6,086,178

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Federal S-CHIP Grant

The Federal Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) grants provide coverage to over 2,100 uninsured low-income children and pregnant women who do not qualify for regular Medicaid. Minnesota spends most of its S-CHIP funding through the MinnesotaCare program and spends the rest within the Medical Assistance program.

$30,974

$30,096

$31,281

$23,548

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

State Innovation Model (SIM) Testing (New grant)

New Grant: This grant builds upon the Minnesota Medicaid health care delivery system and the Hennepin Health demonstration project, with a focus on patient centered services across a continuum of health care, mental health, long-term care , and other services. The goal of this grant is to create multi-payer models with a broad mission to raise community health status and reduce long term health risks for beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. The Minnesota Accountable Health Model will offer a comprehensive, statewide, imitative to close the current gaps in health information technology, secure exchange health information, quality improvement infrastructure, and workforce capacity needed to provide team-based coordinated care.

$2,305

$16,941

$19,909

HEALTH OUTCOME

State Survey & Certification

This grant provides funding for a contract with Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to certify nursing homes and rehabilitation providers in accordance with requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These providers may not participate in the Medicaid program unless they are certified.

$6,468

$6,943

Yes

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

Medicaid Administration

This grant is an administrative pass-through of federal financial participation (FFP) to counties, DHS systems, and the state general fund for approved MA administrative activities. State earn administrative FFP for approved MA administrative activity.

$219,130

$220,988

$223,554

$225,182

Yes

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

Federal CD Block Grant

The Consolidated Chemical Dependency Treatment Fund (CCDTF) combines otherwise separate funding sources – the federal Substance Abuse, Prevention and Treatment block grant, MA, Minnesota Care and other state appropriations – into a single fund. (The CCDTF provides funding for residential and non-residential addiction treatment services for eligible low-income Minnesotans who have been assessed as needing treatment for chemical abuse or dependency. Approximately 50 percent of all CD treatment admissions for Minnesota residents are paid for through the CCDTF. Almost all treatment providers in the state are enrolled as CCDTF providers). These amounts are the federal CD block grant.

$26,158

$30,694

$30,652

$30,650

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

FSET Service Grants dedicated

These service grants represent revenues to the general fund from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training program which provides 50% federal matching funds for support services such as child care and other employment supports provided to eligible SNAP recipients. There are approximately 36,000 participants in SNAP employment and training activities during the year.

$5,270

$5,159

$3,159

Yes

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

IV-D Accelerating Innovation

These funds are used by the Minnesota Department of Human Services Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED) to simplify and streamline the process for the review and modification of child support orders so that adjustments are made expediently, with minimal burden, at a reduced cost, while ensuring due process. The project targets simplification and streamlining by changing policies, forms and procedures to expedite the review and modification process for child support agencies and applying technical supports to the pro se process (where people represent themselves in filing legal papers and appearing in court). The project improves the process for all parties and targets high-impact, low-cost improvements for parents who are in prison or receive public assistance benefits. Serves over 14,000 people annually.

$19

Yes

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

IV-D Co-Parent Court

Participants are provided with assistance in developing parenting time plans and parenting skills classes. The goals and objectives are to: target unwed parents to establish paternity and offer appropriate services to those who can benefit from social services, improve parenting skills, parental relationships, and paternal participation in the lives of their children, increase child support payments by providing non-custodial parents information on how the child support system works and providing services they need to better provide financial support, promote agreed upon child support orders bad custody and parenting time orders for unwed parents, and improve outcomes for children by helping unmarried parents work together to parent their children. Serves 300 parents annually.

$164

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Title IV-D Child Support Administration

This funding is the federal financial participation (FFP) for the Supreme Court, Department of Corrections, county federal incentives, County Income Maintenance (both administrative and indirect costs), systems fund, general fund and 1115 grants.

$107,731

$111,113

$111,082

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Title IV-D Access & Visitation Grants

Child Support Enforcement (CSE) Access & Visitation Grants improve non-custodial parents' access to their children. The grant goes to two grantees, Children's Safety Centers and Genesis II for families. Serves approximately 400 families annually.

$165

$134

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

IV-D Mind The GAP

The overarching goal of Minnesota's Mind the Gap project is to address the gaps and barriers that people about to be released from prison must overcome to become employed and become consistent payers of child support. This grants helps develop child support policies and collaborative practices to bridge that gap. This is accomplished through a unique partnership of programs and activities that include state and local child support staff, state and local corrections staff, a local responsible fatherhood program and a statewide father and families network organization. Two metro counties provide dedicated child support staff for parolees in the grant and a case manager at the prison sites to meet with and help prepare inmates who are about to be paroled to resume their child support obligations and to reintegrate with their families. 112 families served.

$33

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Title IV-E Foster Care

The title IV-Foster Care program helps states provide temporary safe and stable out-of-home care for children whose parents cannot safely care for them. Of the approximately 11,400 children in out-of-home placements in 2011, foster families provided care to 8,000 of them.

$40,462

$51,241

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is used to improve child protective services systems. In Minnesota, grants to five counties are used to administer the federally required Citizen Review Panels for child protection services. The counties are Chisago, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington and Winona. This is a requirement of all states to be able to access other federal reimbursement.

$331

$365

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

ARRA Title IV-E Adoption Asst.

Title IV-E Adoption Assistance provides Federal Financial Participation (FFP) to States in adoption subsidy costs for the adoption of children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families and who meet certain eligibility tests. This assistance is intended to prevent inappropriately long stays in foster care and to promote the healthy development of children through increased safety, permanency and well-being. Federal Title IV-E share from Stimulus Funding for children receiving federal IV-E Adoption Assistance maintenance payments. Ended on 6/30/11.

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Title IV-B1 Child Welfare Program

The purpose of the Title IV-B1 Child Welfare Services Program is to promote state flexibility in the development and expansion of a coordinated child and family services program that utilizes community-based agencies and ensures all children are raised in safe, loving families. These funds provide grants to counties and tribes to provide core child protection services to strengthen families and to prevent out-of-home placement when it is safe to do so. Grants support services to approximately 33,400 families per year.

$4,042

$4,521

$4,433

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Child Justice Act

Children's Justice Grants encourage states to enact reforms designed to improve (1) the assessment and investigation of suspected child abuse and neglect cases, including cases of suspected child sexual abuse and exploitation, in a manner that limits additional trauma to the child and the child's family; (2) the assessment and investigation of cases of suspected child abuse-related fatalities and suspected child neglect-related fatalities; (3) the investigation and prosecution of cases of child abuse and neglect, including child sexual abuse and exploitation; and (4) the assessment and investigation of cases involving children with disabilities or serious health-related problems who are suspected victims of child abuse or neglect. In Minnesota these grants provide training for county and tribal law enforcement, county attorney, and county and tribal child protection professionals on assessment and investigations, including training on forensic interviewing of potential child abuse victims. This grant supports training for approximately 180 participants.

$248

$276

Unknown

SAFETY OUTCOME

Independent Living-Support for Emancipation and Living Functionally (SELF)

The federal John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Act, passed in 1999, provides funding to and governs the program known as the Support for Emancipation and Living Functionally (SELF) Program in Minnesota. The intent of the funds is to reduce the risk that youth aging out of long term out-of-home placement will become homeless or welfare dependent. Funds are therefore awarded for the provision of services designed to help older youth, currently or formerly in out-of-home care, prepare for a successful transition to adulthood. Approximately 1,500 high-risk youth served annually.

$1,904

$2,007

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

ARRA Title IV-E Foster Care

Tile IV-E Foster Care funds help States provide safe and stable out-of-home care for children under the jurisdiction of the State child welfare agency until the children are returned home safely, placed with adoptive families, or placed in other planned arrangements for permanency. Federal Title IV-E share from Stimulus Funding for children receiving federal IV-E Foster Care maintenance payments. Ended on 6/30/11.

$81

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Title IV-E Adoption Assistance

Federal financial participation for payments to individuals adopting Title IV-E special needs children. In 2012, approximately 4,500 children receive IV-E adoption assistance. This assistance is intended to prevent inappropriately long stays in foster care and to promote the healthy development of children through increased safety, permanency and well-being.

$26,560

$28,065

$28,025

$27,985

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Independent Living Education and Training Vouchers (ETV)

The Chafee Education and Training Vouchers Program (ETV) provides resources to States to make available vouchers for postsecondary training and education to help defray the costs of post-secondary education to 221 youth who aged-out of foster case at age 18, were adopted from foster care on or after their 16th birthday, or custody was transferred to a relative from foster care on or after their 16th birthday.

$697

$626

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Title IV-B2 Child Welfare Program

Title IV-B2, Promoting Safe and Stable Families, provides funds to help prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, by adoption or by another permanent living arrangement. Funding provides grants to community-based agencies, counties and tribes to provide services to families to reduce the risk of maltreatment, to prevent child maltreatment and improve family functioning for families reported to child protection services, and provide child protective services to strengthen families and prevent out-of-home placement when it is safe to do. This grant helps serve approximately 24,500 families.

$2,732

$3,853

$3,398

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Child Trust Fund Challenge

Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants support community-based efforts to develop, operate, expand, and enhance, and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect and to support the coordination of resources and activities to better strengthen and support families to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect; and (2) to foster understanding, appreciation and knowledge of diverse populations in order to effectively prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. Funds provide grants to community based agencies (such as non-profits, school districts, and human service agencies) to provide services to families to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and enhance family capacities.

$1,376

$1,421

$1,375

$1,382

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Adoption Incentive Payments

Adoption Incentive Payments provide incentives to States to increase annually the number of foster child adoptions, special needs adoptions, and older child adoptions. These funds are used for grants to providers for adoption-related services, including post adoption.

$680

$602

$265

Unknown

SAFETY OUTCOME

Title XX Block Grant

The Social Service Block Grant (Title XX) provides social services best suited to meet the needs of individuals that must be directed to one or more of five broad goals: Achieve or maintain economic support to prevent, reduce or eliminate dependency, achieve or maintain self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency, preventing or remedying neglect, abuse or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interest or preserving, rehabilitating or reuniting families, preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based care, home-based care or other forms of less intensive care, securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate or providing services to individuals in institutions. Funds provide grants to counties to purchase or provide services for vulnerable children and adults who experience dependency, abuse, neglect, poverty, disability, or chronic health conditions. This grant contributes to costs for services to more than 300,000 people annually. Grants also provide child care in a number of counties for children whose parents, guardian or current caretakers have changed residence recently to obtain employment in a temporary or seasonal agricultural activity (approx. 860 children per year) and grants provide legal advocacy, training and technical assistance in cases regarding custody, Children's Medicaid, permanency, adoption, tribal court proceedings, long-term foster care and others services to the Indian Child Welfare Law Center.

$33,687

$34,006

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Housing & Urban Development (HUD)

The Emergency Solutions Grant Program provides funding to: (1) engage homeless individuals and families living on the street; (2) improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless individuals and families; (3) help operate these shelters; (4) provide essential services to shelter residents, (5) rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families, and (6) prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless. This grant provides funding to shelters and transitional housing programs for operating costs, essential services, and homelessness prevention and costs to administer the federal grant.

$1,913

$2,242

$1,232

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

SNAP-Capped Funds

Under Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) regulations, states have the option to include nutrition education activities in the State Plan filed with the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture. This option allows states to include the costs of nutrition education activities as administrative costs of SNAP. These costs are reimbursed by FNS at a rate of 50%. Minnesota adopted this option in the early 1990's. The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) contracts with the University of Minnesota Extension (U of M) and Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT) to provide nutrition education services.

$9,985

$10,058

$10,069

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

SNAP - Group Residential Housing (GRH)

SNAP reimbursement is received for some Group Residential Housing (GRH) recipients who live in certain facilities where they receive all their meals.

$14,378

$14,679

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

ARRA- HUD

Stimulus funding under the Emergency Shelter Grant Program, these are one-time funds for homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing activities.

$963

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Surplus Commodities

The Emergency Food Assistance Program provides funding to States to enable processing storage and distribution costs incurred in providing food assistance to needy persons. Funds are used to Distribute U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) donated food commodities to individuals and families who use on-site meal programs, food shelves and shelters. This program design ensures an equitable distribution of commodities to all 87 counties.

$1,256

$819

$813

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) Administration

Federal funds for State and County administrative costs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

$43,087

$46,169

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Rural & Homeless Youth (RHY) Federal Demo Grant

The Transitional Living for Homeless Youth Program purpose is to establish and operate transitional living projects for homeless youth, including pregnant and parenting youth. This program is structured to help older homeless youth achieve self-sufficiency and avoid long-term dependency on social services. This state and local collaborative provides transitional living program and independent living skills to runaway youth and homeless youth in a seven county / three reservation region of Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, Wadena in addition to the Leech Lake and Mille Lacs Reservations.

$288

$206

$196

Yes

Unknown

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides assistance to States, working through a network of community action agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations, for the reduction of poverty, revitalization of low-income communities and the empowerment of low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient (particularly families who are attempting to transition off a State program carried out under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act) and (1) To provide services and activities having a measurable and potential major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem; (2) to provide activities designed to assist low-income participants, including the elderly poor, to: (a) secure and retain meaningful employment; (b) attain an adequate education; (c) make better use of available income; (d) obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (e) obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including health services, nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency; (g) achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and (h) make more effective use of other related programs; (3) to provide on an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs, and related services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among the poor; and (4) to coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals.
These funds provide grants for emergencies and special projects.

$12,401

$8,016

$7,825

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

ARRA Food Stamps -MAXIS

Stimulus funding under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP), these are time-limited funds for SNAP benefits.

$2,596

$3,000

GOVERNMENT OUTCOME

SNAP- (formerly Food Stamp Employment & Training)

Federal funds for state and county costs related to employment and training for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.

$542

$640

HEALTH OUTCOME

Food Stamp - MAXIS Issuance

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits cash out provided to SSI and elderly recipients.

$15,419

$10,600

HEALTH OUTCOME

ARRA Food Stamps -GRH

Time limited stimulus fund for cost recovery through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for GRH recipients living in certain facilities.

$2,476

HEALTH OUTCOME

Food Support Capped Outreach

Grants to Community Action Partnerships to help assist people in determining if they are eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

$1,675

$242

$110

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

IDEA -Child Disabilities

The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B grant from U.S. Department of Education is awarded to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). MDE in turn, completes an interagency agreement with DHS to develop coordinated benefits and policy for youth with disabilities.

$29

$60

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Refugee Discretionary Grants

The objectives of the discretionary grant programs include: (1) decreasing the numbers of refugees on public assistance and the length of time refugees require such assistance; (2) encouraging the placement of refugees in locations with good job opportunities and lower costs of living; (3) providing supplemental services to areas with high numbers of arrivals; (4) promoting older refugees' access to aging services; (5) assisting low-income refugees with matching funds for individual development accounts and with financial literacy classes; (6) providing micro-credit to refugees interested in starting new businesses but unable to access commercial sources of capital; (7) providing services to refugees in rural areas; (8) providing preventive health services; and (9) providing school impact assistance. Grants to non- profit agencies available for certain geographic areas with refugee populations. (approx. served –165 per year)

$116

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA)

The Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance program reimburses states for the cost of cash and medical assistance provided to refugees, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam, Cuban and Haitian entrants, asylees, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants during the first eight months after their arrival in this country or grant of asylum. Reimbursement is also provided for care of unaccompanied refugee minors and grantee administrative costs. Approximately 200 people per month served.

$2,961

$4,507

$4,594

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Refugee Target Assistance Grant (TAG)

The Targeted Assistance Grant program provides funding for employment-related and other social services for refugees, certain Amerasians from Vietnam, Cuban and Haitian Entrants, asylees, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants in areas with large refugee populations. An arrival must be within five years of arriving in this country or grant of asylum to be eligible for services under these grants. Approximately 290 people per month served.

$1,524

$1,153

$986

$678

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Services to Older Refugees

The Services to Older Refugees grants are intended to expand the capacity of organizations to serve older refugees. Specifically, activities include case management, information and referral, interpretation and socialization. Approximately 250 older refugees are served in a year. This program will partner with the Minnesota Area Agency on Aging.

$213

$200

$100

$25

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Refugee Social Services

Refugee Social Services grants provide funding for employment-related and other social services for refugees, certain Amerasians from Vietnam, Cuban and Haitian Entrants, asylees, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants. An arrival must be within five years of arriving in this country or grant of asylum to be eligible for services under these grants. Approximately 290 people per month served.

$2,943

$2,585

$2,393

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Refugee School Impact

The Refugee School Impact grants provide funding to key school districts in the Twin Cities, Rochester and Worthington to provide activities leading to refugee children's optimal progress in academic, physical, social, emotional, and behavioral development. 619 students will be served in a year.

$793

$600

$500

$125

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Local Access to Health Care Program

As part of the broader Local Access to Care program activities, this grant funded the development and implementation of the Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) - Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare - electronic application and verification systems. Remaining funds target Local Access to Care programs which provide primary care and chronic disease management to uninsured persons above 350% FPL who are ineligible for MHCP.

$2,749

$917

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

ARRA Health Insurance Tech. (HIT)

The Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive program provides eligible providers and hospitals 100% federally funded incentives to adopt meaningful electronic health record technology. DHS administration and implementation costs are funded at a 90% federal match. This funding is authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) through the Health Information technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) act. Funding for this project commenced in October 2012.

$184

$68,819

$47,210

$6,304

HEALTH OUTCOME

Adult Medicaid Quality Grants (New grant)

New Grant: This two year federal grant will support the development of at least two Medicaid quality improvement projects in Minnesota using new measures developed from claim and encounter data. Data collected through this grant will be publically reported and incorporated into quality improvement efforts.

$996

$909

HEALTH OUTCOME

Diabetes Prevention

These funds go to partner agencies included in the $10 million grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to cover costs for the study, administration, and implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) incentives and evaluation. The DPP provides funds to eligible clinics in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MSA to administer the DPP, targeting Medicaid participants with prediabetes or who have a history of prediabetes.

$289

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Strong Start for Mothers and Babies (New Grant)

New Grant: This grant supports two models of enhanced prenatal care for Medicaid recipients residing in selected geographical areas of Minnesota with high preterm birth rates. The grant expects to provide enhanced care to 10,000 Medicaid recipients over the next 3 years, resulting in reduced rates of preterm birth and improvements in maternal care.

$808

$1,604

$1,611

HEALTH OUTCOME

MN Medical Care Demo Project

Grants to Area Agencies on Aging (AAA's) and service providers to help seniors obtain health insurance benefits and report fraud, waste and abuse within the health care system.

$364

$399

$344

HEALTH OUTCOME

Alzheimer's Research

The Older Americans Act (OAA) grant impacts the ability of the family caregiver to withstand the difficulties of caregiving and eliminate or defer the need for institutionalization of the care receiver. OAA grants to providers and Area Agencies on Aging (AAA's) to implement evidence-based programs ( Mary Mittleman model) throughout Minnesota. This funding also includes administrative funds to implement the grant. Grant ended September 2012

$506

$443

$81

HEALTH OUTCOME

ARRA Chronic Disease Mgmt.

OAA grants to support implementation of the evidence-based Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. This grant also includes administrative funds to implement the grant. Grant ended Septemeber 30, 2012

$347

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Nursing Home Diversion

OAA grant to develop flexible service options for older adults and family caregivers who are eligible for MA and other public programs as well as those who are fully private pay. Grant includes administrative costs to implement the grant. The grant has now ended.

$185

$11

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Health Insurance Counseling

Grants to AAAs and service providers to provide health insurance counseling, education and assistance services to seniors to help obtain health insurance benefits. (Also coordinated with Information and Assistance grants- general fund). The grant also includes administrative funds that are used to implement and administer the grant.

$814

$779

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Aging - Social Services

OAA grants to AAAs and local providers to provide a variety of community-based social services. (Approximately 122,000 served in FY 2011). OAA grants to AAAs for administrative purposes, program development and coordination activities. The grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$7,125

$7,845

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Alzheimer's Outreach Program

OAA grants to AAAs and service providers to provide early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and support to families with seniors suffering with the disease. (Approximately 5,000 served in FY 2011.) OAA grants to providers and AAAs to implement evidence-based programs throughout Minnesota. The grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant. Match is at the local level not the state level.

$151

$568

HEALTH OUTCOME

AOA Resource Center

OAA grants to establish aging and disability resource centers that will create linkages with various systems including institutional care, pre-admission screening, hospital discharge planning and community agencies and organizations that serve targeted populations. The grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$361

$59

Yes

Unknown

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Home Delivery Meals

OAA grants to AAAs and service providers to provide home delivered meal services targeted to seniors in the greatest economic and social need. (Funding coordinated with the general fund Senior Nutrition grant)

$2,378

$2,625

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Elder Abuse Prevention

OAA grants to service providers to provide activities related to elder abuse prevention. The grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$17

$83

SAFETY OUTCOME

Evidence Based Health Initiatives

Older Americans Act (OAA) grants to implement a physical activities program in the Metro area for seniors, a chronic disease self-management program in central MN and a falls prevention program with the MN Chippewa Tribes. The grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant. This grant ended in SFY 2012.

$20

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

3E Care Giver Grants

OAA grants to AAAs and service providers to provide information, respite, education, training and support groups to family caregivers. (Approximately 23,800 served in FY 2011). The grant also includes 3E Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Grants and 3E Statewide Activites Grant. In addition, the grant is to a service provider to provide caregiver support services to grandparents raising their grandchildren. The grant also provides statewide training, education and caregiver support activities.

$1,840

$2,200

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Nsip Reimbursement USDA

OAA grants to AAAs and local nutrition providers as a separate allocation based on the number of meals served in the previous project year. (This grant is coordinated with general fund Senior Nutrition funding )

$1,564

$2,210

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Congregate Meals

OAA grants to AAAs and service providers to provide congregate meal services targeted to seniors in the greatest economic and social need. The grant is coordinated with the state funded Senior Nutrition grant. This grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$4,674

$5,617

Yes

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Ombudsman Supplement

This OAA grant supplements funding for the Ombudsman for Long Term Care office. The principal role of the Ombudsman Program is to investigate and resolve complaints made by or on behalf of residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. This grant also promote policies and practices needed to improve the quality of care and life in long-term care facilities and educate both consumers and providers about residents' rights and good care practices.

$254

$249

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Assess Long -Term Care System

CMS grant funding for research, demonstrations and evaluations which focused on expanding agency efforts on improving access to the long term care system. This grant ended September 30, 2012

$184

$25

HEALTH OUTCOME

Aging Preventive Health

OAA grants to AAAs and service providers to provide preventive health information and services to seniors (Approximately 8,400 served in FY 2011).

$304

$350

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Medicare Improvement -MIPPA CMS

CMS funding to expand, extend or enhance the outreach efforts to beneficiaries on Medicare Part D. This grant ended in SFY 2012.

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Aging Lifespan

OAA grant to MN Board on Aging to improve access to and availability of lifespan respite services for Minnesota’s family caregivers. This funding also includes administrative funds to administer and implement the grant.

$51

$72

$34

Yes

Unknown

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Medicare Improvement -MIPPA CMS3

CMS grants to AAAs to increase capacity to provide information and assistance regarding Medicare. The grant funding also includes administrative funds to administer and implement the grant. This grant ended in SFY 2012.

$25

$18

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Medicare Improvement -MIPPA MAAA

$192

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Medicare Improvement -MIPPA MADR

Grants to MN Board on Aging to expand, extend or enhance the outreach efforts to beneficiaries on Medicare Part D and for those with limited incomes. This grant ended in SFY 2012.

$254

$120

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

AOA Evidenced Based

Grant from OAA to 1) integrate a statewide set of services and supports through a fully coordinated single entry point system, with a particular focus on care transitions; and (2) ensure access to a consistent set of essential services, evidence-based risk management and self-directed in-home supports to high risk individuals, including those with dementia, family caregivers and veterans. This grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$38

$869

$863

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

AOA IS Dementia

Grant from OAA that will: (1) integrate a statewide set of services/supports through a fully coordinated dementia capable single entry point with a particular focus on care transitions in cooperation with health care homes; and (2) ensure seamless regional access to a consistent set of high quality, sustainable, dementia capable evidence-based/informed supports for persons with dementia and their caregivers.

$427

$116

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Ticket To Work Program

Grants to state agencies and stakeholder organizations to build infrastructure that facilitates the employment of people with disabilities. Grant’s focus is on improving the infrastructure of the support and employment systems in Minnesota to enable people to work. Currently in no-cost extension period. Grant ends 12/31/2012. Grant includes administrative funding to administer and implement the grant.

$2,417

$828

Unknown

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Part B - DHS

Dedicated federal funding that helps individuals with HIV / AIDS obtain access to necessary medical care, nutritional supplements, dental services, mental health services, support services and outreach to high risk, underserved populations. Federal funding dedicated to maintain private insurance coverage for people living with HIV and/or purchase HIV related drugs. Funds used in conjunction with state and special revenue funds. (Approximately 1,500 people served.).Federal funding to provide outreach and education services to minority populations by identifying individuals with HIV/AIDS and make them aware of and enroll them in treatment service programs. (Approximately 100 people served). Grant includes administrative funding for administering and implementing the grant.

$7,721

$8,078

$7,018

$7,023

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

Ryan White Part B Supplemental (New Grant)

New Grant: This grant which supplements the Ryan White grant is a competitive grant that is awarded to states with demonstrated need. The funding helps low income persons living with HIV/AIDS get access to HIV/AIDS medications. The Supplemental grant also covers outreach to underserved high risk populations.

$33

$126

HEALTH OUTCOME

Money Follows The Person

Grant from CMS that supports the transition of Medicaid participants of all ages from institutions to the community and rebalances MN long term care system to achieve sustainability. Initial anticipated enrollment for SFY 2013 is 74. Enrollment will continue to go up in future years. The grant includes administrative funding throughout DHS to administer and implement the grant.

$722

$4,533

$3,784

$3,563

Yes

Unknown

COMMUNITIES OUTCOME

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Implementation Grants

Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) which funds an interagency agreements with the Department of Corrections to support efforts to improve their services for persons with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Grant includes administrative funds to administer and implement the grant.

$218

$430

$195

Yes

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

COSIG - MI-CD

Co-occurring state incentive grants (COSIG) to promote evidence-based integrated dual-diagnosis services for Mental Illness (MI) and Chemical Dependency (CD).

$249

$133

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

MH Homelessness (McKinney Grant)

Grants to counties and non-profit agencies for outreach and mental health services to homeless people. About $500,000 per year of Adult MH Integrated state funds (see above) are used as match for these federal funds. (9,200 people served per year)

$820

$818

Yes

SAFETY OUTCOME

Federal Mental Health Block Grant

Grants to counties and non-profit agencies for innovative projects based on best practices. Projects include children’s mental health collaborative, crisis services for children and adults, adult mental health initiatives and self-help projects for consumers. As required by state law, 25% of the Federal MH Block Grant is used for grants to American Indian Tribes and non-profit agencies to provide mental health services, particularly community-support services, to American Indians.

$9,181

$10,753

Yes

HEALTH OUTCOME

MH Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG)

The State Mental Health DIG program is one of SAMHSA’s Infrastructure Grant programs. SAMHSA’s Infrastructure Grants provide funds to increase the capacity of mental health and/or substance abuse systems to support programs and services. SAMHSA’s State Mental Health DIG program is intended to fund State Mental Health authorities to develop or enhance their data infrastructure to improve management of mental health service delivery. The Data Infrastructure Grants are also a link in CMHS’s ongoing efforts to implement the President’s New Freedom Commission in building community systems of care.

$118

$133

Yes

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

SPE Grant

Reimburses providers through the Consolidated Fund for the provision of chemical dependency treatment services to persons whose income is below 100% of Federal Poverty.

$95

$44

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

MN SPF Strategic Prevention State Incentive Grant (SIG)

The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) is an existing model and process promoted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). Nationally, the goals prevent onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and the reduction of abuse-related problems in communities.

$1,004

$2,504

$3,704

$3,088

Unknown

HEALTH OUTCOME

Nationwide Program for National & State Background Checks

DHS conducts background studies for health and human services programs licensed by DHS, MDH, and some at the Department of Corrections (DOC). This new grant will provide increased fingerprint identification resources and will include a "rap back" feature to identify staff who may need to be disqualified after the initial routine background check.

$861

$936

$1,203

Yes

Unknown

SAFETY OUTCOME

Total Federal Funds

$6,129,981

$6,237,786

$7,064,204

$7,887,836