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Outreach and Enrollment Best
Practices for Florida’s: Meeting the Uninsured
Where They Are
Jodi A. Ray, MAProject Director
Florida Covering Kids & Families
Covering Tampa Bay9/13/13
• Increase Awareness• Increase Enrollment• Increase Retention• Increase Knowledge• Build Relationships
Goals
• Simplify enrollment• Coordinate coverage programs• Outreach to eligible populations
Objectives
What is Outreach?
□Involves educating customers□Includes building partnerships□Requires working one-on-one
with families.
Outreach Objectives
Identify target population and strategies for developing an approach and setting goals
Develop tips for working with members of the media
Utilize techniques for partnership recruitment and activation
Share ways to retain current enrollees
Use methods for tracking and evaluating your activities
What does it mean?□ Brings the application process to the eligible
population.□ Distance, time, health, cultural and language
barriers prevent many eligible families and children from engaging in a face-to-face interview.
□ Outreach brings the application process closer to their health care providers, homes, work and everyday lives.
□ Means reaching out from the agencies to the broader community.
□ Making the eligible population aware of the health coverage available and increasing their knowledge about eligibility criteria and how to apply.
Priorities for Successful Outreach in Florida
Outreach is results driven and connected to actual enrollment
Partners use sound data demonstrating connection
Partners share best practices and lessons learned for potential replication
The uninsured population is constantly changing.
No single outreach event or enrollment campaign can keep pace with this fluid population.
Community-based enrollment weaves outreach into the very fabric of a community’s life so that people have access to information and enrollment assistance when and where they need it.
Community-based Facilitated Enrollment: Meeting Uninsured New Yorkers Where they are. By The Children’s Aid Society and Children’s Defense Fund – New York. February 2005.
Point of Information
Florida’s Outreach and Enrollment Program
Places application assistors in communities across Florida to enroll uninsured children
Provides “on-site” and “in-person” enrollment assistance for families in a variety of environments
Follows up with contacts to support families in using and maintaining their coverage
Is always culturally and literacy sensitive and competent
Focuses on partnering with local organizations to reach the uninsured population
Incorporates use of technology through online applications, online case management and follow-up
Reaches People in Their Everyday Routine
□Work□Live□Shop□Eat□Pray
Plan of Action
□Know your community□Understand your product□Build Bridges□Gather Testimonials□Increase word of mouth□Evaluate the Successes
Outreach Marketing: A Resource Guide for KidCare Outreach Coordinators and Providers. Florida Department of Health
Designed to Remove Barriers
□Build relationships with trusted community leaders
□Ensure that you understand the concerns
□Ensure that information is both culturally appropriate and at a literacy level that families can understand
Finding Uninsured Where are the uninsured kids? Key data indicators give us
the best perspective- Small Area Health Insurance Estimates- Census Bureau Poverty Statistics
Use all data sources to build a profile of the area(s) you work in by examining, comparing and contrasting different data points to identify gaps
Data doesn’t give the complete picture but conversations with key stakeholders can help to guide your work
Speak the Language□Help families tackle tough
issues through one-on-one assistance
□Provide easy-to-read information□Understand the culture□Speak in the native language□Be sensitive to layers of fear
and mistrust□Be aware of reluctance to
disclose personal informationCommunity-based Facilitated Enrollment: Meeting Uninsured New Yorkers Where they are. By The Children’s Aid Society and Children’s Defense Fund – New York. February 2005.
Gets the Job Done!□Facilitated enrollment keeps
people from getting lost along the way to completing an application
□Overwhelming successful in ensuring that people who started the process actually completed the application and obtained health insurance
□Serves as the “glue” that keeps people from falling through the cracks
Community-based Facilitated Enrollment: Meeting Uninsured New Yorkers Where they are. By The Children’s Aid Society and Children’s Defense Fund – New York. February 2005.
…And It’s Cost Effective
□Community-based enrollment is one the most effective forms of enrollment
□Use of inexpensive outreach strategies such as internal referrals, word-of-mouth between parents
□Keeps overhead costs low through use of existing community locations
Community-based Facilitated Enrollment: Meeting Uninsured New Yorkers Where they are. By The Children’s Aid Society and Children’s Defense Fund – New York. February 2005.
Key Partners Partner agencies Other state agencies: DOE, DOR, Children’s Hospitals Schools and school districts Faith-based organizations Health Plans Health departments CBO’s Businesses Military & veteran organizations Government entities or municipalities
What are you doing?
Application Assistance ProgramRecruiting assisters in identified areas of needIdentifying application sites
Coalition building / grassroots outreachFocusing on housing, health care and other organizationsAlso reaching out to business community and other state agencies
TrainingHolding informational sessions and trainings around the stateTraining assisters, providers and volunteer community partners
Cultural Competency
Competency vs. Awareness Language Using Interpreters Written Materials (English) (
Spanish) other Advocacy
The Multi-Prong Approach Community Navigator/Certified Application
Assistants Sites Referral program Community coalitions Military/Veteran outreach Business outreach School based outreach Children’s hospital based outreach Faith-based outreach Press Enrollment Events Link with Text4Baby Teen Campaign ELL & Refugee Outreach
Community Coalitions
19 Local coalitions representing 30 counties
Targeting Hispanic and Haitian populations
Both Urban and Rural Identifying application
assistance sites Targeting teens and newly
unemployed
Referral Program Basics
Establishing a referral arrangement between your program and community organizations is a powerful tool to increase local capacity and get people enrolled
When done correctly, referral programs can be very effective for both the referring organization and your program
Variety of referral methods
Program Evaluation Goal
Assess the process, impact and outcome measures of proposed activities intended to increase
enrollment