Supporting NJ Community Health Worker Pilot Programs
Center for Health Care Strategies
April 2023-April 2024
In early 2022, New Jersey’s Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services applied to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to renew New Jersey FamilyCare along with significant components of New Jersey’s Medicaid program and Children’s Health Insurance Program. As part of the renewal—and building on the growing engagement of community health workers across New Jersey, a 5-year $25 million pilot to advance Community Health Worker (CHW) programs was proposed.
Through CHAP’s grant, the Center for Health Care Strategies developed a technical assistance program to support area Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) as they embark on designing community health worker pilot projects throughout the state.
These projects build on growing engagement of community health workers across New Jersey and will be administered jointly by the state’s five MCOs, the New Jersey Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, and the NJ Department of Health’s Colette Lamothe-Galette Community Health Worker Institute.
The Center for Health Care Strategies worked with the MCOs on program design, including strategies for partnership development and collaboration with community health workers, with goals of maximizing and preserving the unique strengths of the community health workforce.
About the Center for Health Care Strategies
The Center for Health Care Strategies is a nonprofit policy center dedicated to improving the health of low-income Americans and achieves its mission by partnering with state and federal agencies, health plans, providers, and community-based organizations to advance innovative and cost-effective models for organizing, financing, and delivering health care services.