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ensure that the beneficiary and/or their family or guardians are aware that alternative forms of Medicaid are available and provide assistance as appropriate. 3. Adoption Subsidy/IV-E Foster Children – This non-MAGI coverage group is the eligibility pathway for children in DCYF substitute care under the authority of Title IV-E of the U.S. Social Security Act. The coverage group includes foster children, children in kinship guardianship care and adopted children whose Medicaid eligibility is based on participation in the following DCYF administered, Title IV-E programs: a. The Foster Care Maintenance Program – This Program provides federally-funded foster care payments on behalf of the following children: Children previously eligible under the Federal Foster Care Maintenance Program under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 601-619; Certain children voluntarily placed or involuntarily removed from their homes; and Children in public non- detention type facilities housing no more than twenty-five (25) children. Children for whom a cash payment is made under the foster care program are deemed eligible for Medicaid. Medicaid eligibility for children in the Foster Care Maintenance program exists as long as the Title IV-E payment continues to be made for them or up to the age of twenty-one (21) if still in foster care. b. The Adoption Assistance Program – The Title IV-E authorized and funded adoption assistance program provides Federal funding for continuing payments for hard-to-place children with special needs. Children in this Program must be SSI beneficiaries at the time of adoption. An adoption subsidy cash payment is not a necessary condition of Medicaid eligibility for these adoption assistance children. They continue to be eligible for Medicaid as long as a Title IV-E adoption assistance agreement is in effect. An interlocutory order or final decree also need not exist. c. Residency requirements – Title IV-E adoption assistance children, kinship guardianship assistance children, and Title IV-E foster care children are eligible for Medicaid in their States of residence. Accordingly, Rhode Island is required to provide Medicaid coverage to children eligible under this pathway as long as they remain residents of the State and under the care and custody of DCYF, even if services are being provided in a jurisdiction of another State. 4. Non IV-E Foster Child Under 18 – This coverage group includes children under the age of eighteen (18), or if a child is eighteen (18) years old, the child will complete high school before their nineteenth (19th) birthday, who are in foster family care or in a kinship guardianship care and are not eligible for Title IV-E. 5. Non IV-E, State Adoption Assistance – This coverage group is hard-to-place children for whom the State provides adoption/guardianship assistance and who are not eligible for Title IV-E. The basis of eligibility for Medicaid is deprivation of parental support occasioned by the child's separation from their family.