UW-Extension to aid uninsured

UW–Madison has received a $900,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Wisconsin families enroll for health-care coverage through Medicaid and BadgerCare.

Wisconsin has at least 30,000 adults and 70,000 low-income children without health-care insurance, according to estimates.

The UW-Extension will serve as lead agency for a statewide coalition, the Wisconsin Covering Kids and Families Initiative, funded by the RWJF grant. The grant is part of Covering Kids & Families, a four-year, $55 million national initiative of RWJF that funds statewide and local coalitions to increase the number of children and adults in federal and state health-care coverage programs.

Roberta Riportella-Muller, associate professor/Extension health policy specialist, will administer the grant. Michael Jacob is the project coordinator in the Madison office.