CHCS Announces Eight States to Join the Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America Initiative
The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) has announced the selection of eight states — Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Washington — to join the next phase of the Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America initiative.
Through this national initiative, CHCS is working with states committed to strengthening policies or programs to support family caregivers and address the challenges of an aging population. In the Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America initiative, cross-sector state teams — comprised of state and private organizations, including Medicaid, Departments of Aging and Health and Human Services, Area Agencies on Aging, universities, health plans, and community-based organizations — are partnering in new ways to prioritize and advance family caregiving programs.
- In Phase I (2018-2020), CHCS worked with six states — Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Virginia — to advance family caregiving policy and program changes through support from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), the Milbank Memorial Fund, the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
- In Phase II (2020-2022), CHCS is working with eight states — Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and
Washington — that will develop and/or enhance existing strategies to assist family caregivers with support from JAHF and the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Focus areas include:
- Strengthening family caregivers’ capacity, including, for example, through use of new technologies, increased access to respite care, and formal training for family caregivers;
- Establishing robust data collection strategies to enhance programs or inform policies to support family caregivers (e.g., family caregiver needs assessments, surveys of program effectiveness); and
- Building formal cross-sector partnerships (e.g., across aging, housing, transportation, health plans, etc.) in a deliberate and strategic way to better support family caregivers’ needs.
To read the press release, click here.
To learn more about the initiative, click here.
To go to Indiana's press release, click here.
To go to a Jacksonville Progress article on Texas' selection, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's co-funding, click here.
