1. Jennifer Hawkins Health Care Integration Administrator Maricopa County
DES & Maricopa County Partnership: Pre-release AHCCCS applications for Jail Inmates
Jennifer Hawkins
Health Care Integration Administrator
Maricopa County

2. Partnership Purpose Target criminal justice population
Recidivism/public safety
Health needs/co-occurring conditions
Provide direct AHCCCS application assistance and early eligibility determinations to MCSO inmates
Track results post-release
Eligibility
Usage

3. The Team Department of Economic Security (DES)
Health Care Integration (HCI)
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO)
Maricopa County Adult Probation (APD)
Keogh Health Connection
Enroll America

4. Pilot Plan Target population: ALPHA High risk to reoffend
Substance use
Mental health
Long-term sentence/program
Identified release
Probation tail

5. Pilot Plan
Leverage existing assistor and outreach resources and services
Keogh Health Connection
Enroll America

6. Partnership Timeline May July Sept Nov Dec ALPHAs graduate and
Team formation, started process discussions, ID’d roles
Chose target population, continued process and logistics discussions
Tested jail and DES/HEA+ processes with >10 inmate applications
Facilities walk-through, finalized jail and DES logistics, confirmed pilot dates
41 (60%) applications processed at Estrella and Durango Jails
ALPHAs graduate and
release into community/DES verify release with MCSO
May
July
Sept
Nov
Dec

9. What’s next? Collect and track data in APETS
Expand to next ALPHA cycles
+ 4th Ave. Jail
Target additional inmate populations
Sentenced
Tents
Women
High-risk to re-offend
Probation tails

10. Considerations Enrollment resources (assistors) Jail logistics
Inmate release process
Group enrollment vs. 1-1
Paper process
Long-term tracking
Education and renewals

11. Jen Hawkins Maricopa County 602-506-1968 hawkinsj002@mail.maricopa.gov
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Jen Hawkins Maricopa County