WHAT IS COMMUNITIES IN CHARGE?

     Communities in Charge is a competitive grants program funded by the

     Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that provides funding and technical

     assistance to help 12 communities design and implement new, or 

     significantly expand existing, community-based approaches to 

     financing and delivering health care to the uninsured.

     WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM GOALS?

• Create system-wide change to improve access to care for low-income, uninsured individuals

• Develop broad-based community consortia to address local coverage issues

• Implement sustainable delivery systems that manage care, promote prevention and early intervention and integrate services for the uninsured

     HOW CAN YOU APPLY?

• The deadline for submitting applications was April 1999.

     CHECK IT OUT!

• Learn what it takes to build a local coverage/access program by clicking on the CIC “How-to” Manual link!

• Click on Currently Funded Communities to learn what other communities are doing to expand local coverage!

• Check out the CIC Compendium of Products to access resources that the CIC communities have developed!

• Review outcomes from our meetings and get ideas for your own by clicking on the Cluster Meeting link!