Office of Community Living Updates: July 19, 2023

July 19, 2023

The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:

Announcements:

NEW: ARPA 6.06 - Dollars to Digitize (D2D) Round 2 Applications begin Monday, July 31, 2023; Informational Webinar on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023

Help Us with the Upcoming Direct Care Worker Public Awareness Campaign - Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey: Moving the EVV Needle, Tell Us How You EVV? Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023

General OCL Meetings:

NEW: Experiences of Health First Colorado Members with Disabilities in Primary Care Settings – Part One

Participant-Directed Programs Policy Collaborative (PDPPC) Monthly Meeting

American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings:

Direct Care Workforce Collaborative (DCWC) Value and Awareness Action Group

Announcements

NEW: ARPA 6.06 - Dollars to Digitize (D2D) Round 2 Applications begin Monday, July 31, 2023;

Informational Webinar on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023

If you’re interested in applying for the second round of ARPA 6.06 Dollars to Digitize grant funding, please join us for an informational webinar on August 2 at 1 p.m.! We will discuss application requirements, deadlines and timelines, and answer any questions you may have!

For more information about the D2D grant project and Round Two of applications, see the ARPA 6.06 portion of the ARPA Grants webpage.

The informational webinar will be held:

Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023

1 to 2 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join via Phone:

1-312-626-6799

Webinar ID: 843 2391 1457

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Please register to join HCPF leaders for a webinar on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. This event will share what we accomplished together last year, address priorities for this fiscal year, and invite stakeholder feedback and comments.

The webinar will be held:

Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023

9 to 11 a.m. MT

For other information and materials, see the HCPF Annual Stakeholder Webinar page.

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Help Us with the Upcoming Direct Care Worker Public Awareness Campaign - Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023

Would you like to help inform the approach of the upcoming Direct Care Worker public awareness campaign? Here are three options to share your input. You can use any or all of them!

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

Please add your thoughts to the Jamboard.

Please attend the Direct Care Workforce Collaborative's Value and Awareness Action Group on Friday, July 28, 2023, 1 to 2 p.m. MT. At this meeting, the vendor will attend and solicit stakeholder feedback. You will find meeting information on the Office of Community Living Stakeholder Engagement Calendar.

Feel free to share these links with direct care workers, anyone interested in direct care work, family or friends of direct care workers, or individuals affected by direct care work.

Responses will be kept anonymous. The survey will close Monday, July 31, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. MT.

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Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey: Moving the EVV Needle, Tell Us How You EVV? Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023

EVV Compliance is more than claims paying for EVV. HCPF wants to know how you EVV.

Complete this survey and tell us what gets in the way of collecting EVV in real-time and what you have discovered to help us all get better.

The survey will take five minutes to complete. The deadline is Monday, July 31, 2023.

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey:

Moving the EVV Needle,Tell Us How You EVV?

General OCL Meetings

Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Other OCL meeting information is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

NEW: Experiences of Health First Colorado Members with Disabilities in Primary Care Settings – Part One

HCPF is holding this initial meeting in response to feedback from advocates about the experiences of Health First Colorado members living with disabilities in primary care settings. We invite all interested members living with disabilities, their family members, disability advocates and any other interested stakeholders to participate.

This meeting will begin with a presentation by our partner, the Colorado Health Institute, on Health First Colorado’s Accountable Care Collaborative, the regional structure that manages the physical and behavioral health benefits and helps coordinate care for Medicaid members.

HCPF will then lead and facilitate a listening session during which we invite stakeholders to inform us about patient experiences, issues, strengths and weaknesses: anything you want us to know.

HCPF’s goal for this first meeting is to gather information that will help us identify needed and feasible steps to improve this system of care.

The meeting will be held:

Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023

9 to 10:30 a.m. MT

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Participant-Directed Programs Policy Collaborative (PDPPC)

Monthly Meeting

The PDPPC is a collaboration between stakeholders and HCPF, focusing on issues related to Participant-Directed Programs, which include Consumer-Directed Attendant Support Services (CDASS) and In-Home Support Services (IHSS). All interested stakeholders are welcome.

The PDPPC meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month in 2023, from 1 to 4 p.m. MT, except for November and December, when it meets on the third Wednesday, due to holidays.

All interested stakeholders are welcome to attend. For more information, see the PDPPC web page.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

1 to 4 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join by Phone:

(Toll-free)1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 969 4053 6000, Passcode: 115140

American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings

Please find an ARPA-related meeting announcement listed below. Other ARPA-related meeting information is on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Direct Care Workforce Collaborative (DCWC) Value and

Awareness Action Group

This Action Group works collaboratively with stakeholders to identify and move forward strategies to support the recruitment and retention of Colorado's direct care workforce. This group intends to meet every other month on the fourth Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. MT.

The meeting will be held:

Friday, July 28, 2023

1 to 2 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join via Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 969 40536000, Passcode: 115140

Need to Make an Accommodation Request for One of Our General OCL or ARPA-Related Stakeholder Meetings?

Reasonable accommodations for all OCL and ARPA-related stakeholder meetings will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities and language services for individuals whose first language is not English may be provided upon request. Please notify John Barry at 303-866-3173 or John.R.Barry@state.co.us or the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.

General OCL Meetings are on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

ARPA-Related Meetings are on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

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