Upcoming Webinars

When “Exempt” Isn’t Enough: Medicaid Work Requirements and Maternal Mental Health

Invitation: When “Exempt” Isn’t Enough: Medicaid Work Requirements and Maternal Mental Health

Medicaid work requirements are set to take effect soon, creating a burdensome administrative process that most enrollees will need to navigate to keep their coverage. Certain populations are exempt from these requirements—including people who are pregnant or postpartum, and those parenting a child age 13 or under. But exemption doesn’t mean automatic protection: in most cases, individuals must actively prove or attest to their exempt status, often through paperwork and verification processes that are easy to miss or misunderstand.

On paper, this should mean pregnant, postpartum, and parenting individuals face no risk to their health insurance. In practice, the complexity of federal rules—combined with the burden of proving an exemption rather than simply receiving one—will inevitably create confusion, fear, and unnecessary coverage loss for people who qualify.

For people who are pregnant, postpartum, or parenting, this could mean slipping through the cracks of a system that assumes they’re protected but doesn’t make that protection easy to keep—worsening maternal mental health in the process. For people of childbearing age more broadly, it could mean losing access to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy counseling that helps them achieve and maintain healthy pregnancies. Join Funders for Maternal Mental Health and Grantmakers In Health on October 14th from 2 pm – 3:15 pm ET / 11 am – 12:15 pm PT for a webinar on this timely topic.

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CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs

It is a difficult time for many, but especially for those who are new to their role. Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in October, to offer foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years the opportunity to discuss the challenges they are facing as new CEOs with one another and seasoned leaders in the field. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.

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SNAP Funder Working Group: Advocacy Opportunities Post-Election

One year after the passage of H.R. 1, analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that at least 1.5 million fewer children — and more than 4.5 million fewer people overall — are receiving SNAP food assistance. SNAP participation has dropped in every state except Alaska, and by as much as 10 percent in some states. The harms to communities will continue to grow as states fully implement eligibility restrictions. This Working Group Call will provide a space for funders to share where they are focusing efforts, where they see the biggest funding gaps, and where there are opportunities to align with other funders. We will also use this time to gather input on future discussion topics and determine the Working Group meeting cadence going forward.

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CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.

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Update on the National Dialogue on Mental Health

In June 2013, GIH hosted a webinar on the first stages of the National Dialogue on Mental Health. This follow-up webinar provided an update on the initiative’s activities to date as well as next steps.

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Monitoring the Impact of the ACA

This call examined the convergence of statewide and national research on tracking the impact of the ACA, and explored possibilities to share information and coordinate efforts.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – April

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened a learning community for funders who are supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Hospital Community Benefits and Community Health Improvement

This audioconference clarified the ACA’s hospital community benefit provisions, including requirements for hospital-sponsored Community Health Needs Assessments, and examined the promise (and potential pitfalls) of leveraging these rules to promote investments in community health.

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Collective Impact: A High Performing Approach to Change

This webinar presented the collective impact model, and explored the role of funders in creating and sustaining the collective process.

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Achieving Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity

This webinar focused on opportunities for philanthropy to help advance behavioral health equity at the local, state, and national levels.

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How Do We Save Recess?

This webinar provided funders with an update on what some are calling a “War on Recess” and discuss different policy and program strategies being implemented to help keep recess in schools.

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Using Technological Innovation to Promote Community Wellness: A Strategy for Equity

This webinar explored the opportunities for health funders to support digital health innovation as a strategic approach that enhances community wellness and promotes racial and ethnic health equity.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community February

The call gave members a chance to learn about the types of evaluations that are being funded, get their questions answered, and share their experience and insights with colleagues.

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What’s on Deck for Kids’ Access in 2014?

This call focused on in-depth discussion of the research and advocacy priorities for children’s access in 2014.

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