Page 14

Effective Date: April 1, 2009

Approval Date: ____________ 11

New Jersey Department of Labor Rapid Response Team: NJ FamilyCare partners with the Department of Labor’s Rapid Response Team, which assists when plants or businesses close or lay off numbers of workers. The Rapid Response Team has agreed to include an overview of the NJ Family Care program in presentations to businesses slotted for closing or layoffs. Our association with the Department of Labor helps to facilitate the enrollment of hundreds of eligible dislocated workers, who might not be able to afford COBRA coverage.

NJ Employer Council: The Office of NJ FamilyCare joined forces with the NJ State Department of Labor in collaboration with the New Jersey Employer Council. The NJ Employer Council provides a communication link between the employer community and the Department of Labor on employment and training issues. There is a state council and nine regional councils. Outreach Coordinators from the Office of NJ FamilyCare participated in many of the regional meetings, and gave a thorough presentation of the NJ FamilyCare program. In addition, the office of NJ FamilyCare participates in the New Jersey Employer Council Annual Statewide Conference by staffing a booth to provide valuable NJ FamilyCare information.

2.3. Describe the procedures the state uses to accomplish coordination of SCHIP with other public and private health insurance programs, sources of health benefits coverage for children, and relevant child health programs, such as title V, that provide health care services for low-income children to increase the number of children with creditable health coverage. (Previously 4.4.5.) (Section 2102)(a)(3) and 2102(c)(2) and 2102(b)(3)(E)) (42CFR 457.80(c))

Public health and Title V agencies: Public health agencies are an important source of outreach and information for potentially eligible children. Staff at programs run by Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Head Start and local health departments are familiar with Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare eligibility requirements and screen their clients accordingly. Programs such as Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies send outreach workers into the community in attempts to assist pregnant women and children in getting necessary health care services, and utilize information regarding NJ FamilyCare when they contact their consumers, assisting in completion of applications. The NJ FamilyCare program partners with NJ Special Child Health Services, the Maternal Child Health Consortia, Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC), the Child Health Regional Network (CHRN) and other Title V programs of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to assure NJ FamilyCare enrollment of all eligible children.

Presumptive eligibility, coupled with the enhanced services provided as part of the HealthStart program, such as nutrition counseling and social services, has helped assure continuity of care during pregnancy.