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PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS
TOOLS
PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS The Path to Good
Health: A Toolkit for Parents You can print this toolkit right now from your computer or you can send it in to be professionally printed and bound. We have included the files and instructions for both below. Print Now You can save this version of the Toolkit to your computer and can print it easily onto your office printer in color or black and white. Since you will be printing this on your home or office printer, it will not be bound and will not have pockets on the front and back inside cover. Professional Printing The files below are very large and do not need to be downloaded onto
your personal home or office computer. You should direct your local professional
printer to this webpage and the printer can download the files directly
to their computer. Professional Printing Specifications for The Path to Good Health:
PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS continued Healthy Students, Health Schools: A Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach to Ensuring Our Children are Healthy and Ready to Learn Healthy Students, Health Schools: A Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach to Ensuring Our Children are Healthy and Ready to Learn is an interactive CD/Video that offers useful tips about coordinating school-based outreach, enrollment, retention, utilization and sustainability efforts. The information is presented by people all over California who implement the components of a comprehensive approach to children's health care coverage. You will find case studies describing different environments in which a comprehensive approach has been successfully coordinated: a School District, County Office of Education, Community-Based Organization and a Children's Health Initiative. This CD also includes useful information about two federal reimbursement programs as well as other funding streams that can support your efforts. Included on this CD are two related, additional products that Consumers Union previously developed. You can download our outreach guide, "Healthy Kids Make Better Learners: A Step-by-Step Manual for School-Based Enrollment in Children's Health Insurance Programs" and our Filemaker Pro database on which schools and other nonprofits can track student health information, "Healthy Tracker." To request a free copy email jtorres@mrmib.ca.gov or call toll-free: (800) 670-4567 and ask for Judy Torres.
PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS continued Healthy Kids Make Better Learners: A Step-by-Step Manual for School-Based Enrollment in Children's Health Insurance Programs Healthy Kids Make Better Learners: A Step-by-Step Manual for School-Based Enrollment in Children's Health Insurance Programs, a new guidebook from Consumers Union's Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools project, presents information about school-based health insurance outreach and enrollment strategies, and includes step-by-step implementation instructions and templates that can be tailored for use in local communities. The manual also provides suggestions for building partnerships and obtaining funding, including leveraging federal and other dollars, to build and sustain school-based enrollment in health insurance programs in tight budget times. To view in HTML format click here
PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS continued Healthy Kids Make Better Learners (66 pages, PDF, 1.2MB) To download PDF file click here
PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS continued Healthy Tracker: A Custom Database Application Healthy Tracker: A Custom Database Application was developed for Consumers Union as a tool for schools and other sites that want to track outreach, enrollment, follow-up, utilization and retention. The database is designed to streamline the capture of necessary family information (e.g, demographic & contact information), ensure consistent family follow-up, help determine effectiveness for program planning and evaluation, save time producing required reports and provide data for grant writing. Since the tracking needs of sites vary greatly, Healthy Tracker is designed to be flexible and allow basic customization without consultants. The database can be used to track information in these categories:
Key database features include pop-up fields for data entry, search and sort on all data fields, automatic follow-up reminders for staff, note fields for open-ended comments, onscreen users guide, and password security. At most sites, it is expected that outreach workers will use paper forms to collect the data, a data entry staff member will input the data, and produce reports needed for:
Healthy Tracker is a stand-alone database built on FilemakerPro. It is Windows compatible and does not require the purchase of additional software. Healthy Tracker is distributed free of charge in limited quantities to schools and nonprofit organizations. If you have any questions about the database or need technical support,
please contact us at jtorres@mrmib.ca.gov. To download: TOOLS The income eligibility guidelines for the School Lunch Program are similar
to those for the Healthy Families and Medi-Cal for Children programs.
Thus, the School Lunch Program is an ideal way to let eligible families
know about state health insurance. Implementing this approach requires
the support of a school district's Superintendent and Food Services Director.
Attached find the step
by step instructions on how to work with the School Lunch Program
to reach out to families. Also attached are Request For Information (RFI)
flyers that school districts can send to parents. The RFIs are 2-sided:
the Request For Information form is Request for Information Forms (RFI) Instructions
on how to work with the School Lunch Program (PDF)
Express Lane Eligibility (ELE) TOOLS continued Health Insurance Surveys are used by school districts to identify the number of children who have insurance and to identify those children who are uninsured.
TOOLS continued Enrollment Events and Media Outreach Many school districts use enrollment events as a way to reach families and enroll children in the the state sponsored health insurance programs. Enrollment Event Checklist Enrollment
Event Checklist Back-to-School Campaign Action Kit The beginning of school is a great time to plan an enrollment event that
will get the attention of parents and children who are preparing for the
upcoming school year. Covering Kids & Families, a national initiative
established to reduce the number of eligible, uninsured children through
enrollment in Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program
developed a Back-to-School Campaign which places children's health care
coverage at the top of the to-do list of every parent with an uninsured
child. The key to this campaign is the planning of outreach and enrollment
events during the beginning of school. To facilitate and encourage the
planning of these events, the Campaign has developed the Back-to-School
Campaign Action Kit which takes you step by step through the planning
process.
Media Advocacy The media can play an important part in successful outreach programs. Media outlets can be very helpful in publicizing enrollment events and can help create public recognition regarding the work your organization is doing to get kids in your community covered with health insurance. The American Public Health Association has created a Media Advocacy Manual that your organization can use to take advantage of the many media opportunities out there.
TOOLS continued Stationing Outreach Workers at School Sites Many community-based organizations (CBOs) and county health agencies work collaboratively with schools to provide enrollment and follow-up services to families. Some families are nervous about going to unfamiliar places or to a county office, so being able to meet an outstationed worker at their child's school can help ease the enrollment process. Solano Kids Insurance Program (SKIP) For more information and tools visit: www.SKIP.solanocoalition.org San Diego Kids Health Assurance Network (SD-KHAN) TOOLS continued School-based and School-linked Programs School districts across the state implement outreach/enrollment for children's health insurance by using existing school-linked programs. One example is the Healthy Start Program. Healthy Start is a state funded program that encourages schools and communities to work together to identify barriers that prevent children from coming to school ready to learn and to implement solutions to eliminate these barriers. Helping a child get access to regular health care is one step to making sure that child comes to school prepared. Similarly, school nurses across California are working to keep children healthy and ready to learn. Together Healthy Start staff and school nurses are actively reaching out to families to enroll their children in Medi-Cal for Children and Healthy Families. Appointment Reminder-a
(ms-word) TOOLS continued Peer Outreach, Reaching Out to Youth Richmond High School, WCCUSD Tools used by the peer educators in their outreach
campaign: Youth Summit- May 22, 2003- Daly City, CA The Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools project of Consumers Union held a Youth Summit on May 22, 2003 in Daly City, CA that brought together youth from various districts in California, to discuss health topics relevant to high school students. The youth also identified various ways to reach out to their peers regarding these issues. The Summit was led by facilitators, but the youth determined the topics discussed, keeping in mind two main goals: 1) Identify health issues facing high school youth today The day began with a ropes course run by the Wilderness Program, an alternative Classroom experience in the San Mateo Jefferson High School District. Both the youth and adults participated in the course as a way to promote interaction within the group and to create a comfortable atmosphere for the day’s discussions. The ropes course proved to be an enjoyable, challenging, and bonding experience that helped prepare the youth for the real work that they would do during the afternoon session of the summit. Click
here to view pictures from the ropes course The youth and adults were separated after the presentation for the next two hours. The adults participated in a workshop led by the Wilderness Program instructors and focused on topics such as designing youth-centered projects. The youth participated in an initial brainstorming session with the facilitators in which they identified the major health topics that concerned high school students. The main topics addressed by the youth were pregnancy, drugs, depression and eating disorders. The youth were then divided by the facilitators into small groups with which they worked for the rest of the afternoon. Once they were in their groups, they were asked to choose one of the health topics identified during the brainstorming session to focus on for the rest of the afternoon. Each group was asked to create a poster containing general information about and concerns relating to that topic. After creating the posters, each group presented to the rest of the groups on the poster that they had created. Then each small group was asked to design a second poster that discussed possible methods of outreach that the youth thought would be particularly effective in extending information about their specific health topic to their peers. The youth made creative, informative posters discussing the causes, symptoms, and solutions related to each of their topics. They then suggested ways of educating their peers about these topics. The most common ideas involved the use of popular media to appeal to the target audience. Suggestions included inviting celebrity speakers to speak to youth groups, publishing a teen newspaper, creating educational television and radio advertisements, establishing a teen hotline, and developing teen web sites. The youth also suggested methods of outreach through their schools including distributing pamphlets and posters, organizing school assemblies, and publishing information in the school newspaper. Click
here to view the information gathered from the youth responses The Youth Summit was a great success, providing the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools project with valuable information on the interests and needs of California’s youth. Click here to view more pictures from the Youth Summit TOOLS continued Alum Rock Appointment
Form TOOLS continued Follow-up: Education, Utilization and Tracking HATS 60
Day Follow-Up TOOLS continued Partnerships: School and Community Working Together Sample
Memorandum of Understanding TOOLS continued Healthy Kids Make
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