Outreach and the State Children's Health Insurance Program Outreach to find, enroll, and assure access to appropriate health care services for children eligible for medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program is a primary focus of the Office of Policy Analysis at NCEMCH. Listed below are reports and materials that have been completed to date. In the coming months, additional research will take an indepth look at outreach strategies for particular populations of children with a particular emphasis on whether and how these programs are being evaluated. Outreach and the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Helping States Enroll Children and Assure Access to Care (12/7/97), was written for a seminar sponsored by NCEMCH for the Georgetown University Maternal and Child Health Collaborative on the importance of outreach to the success of CHIP. The paper describes outreach strategies based on states' experiences with expanding their Medicaid programs for children and pregnant women and how these strategies could be used to help enroll and assure access to services for children eligible for CHIP. The paper ends with a discussion of policy research questions concerning outreach for the Georgetown University MCH Collaborative, as well as other readers, to consider. Outreach to Children: Moving from Enrollment to Ensuring Access (3/31/98), looks at outreach as a continum - from strategies that focus on identifying and enrolling children in health coverage programs to those that strive to assure that children receive timely and appropriate health care. Examples of outreach efforts by managed care plans are highlighted throughout the paper. The report ends with an appendix of web sites with information about CHIP, managed care issues pertinent to outreach, and resources on outreach issues. Successful Outreach Strategies: Ten Programs That Link Children to Health Services is based on a survey of 10 outreach programs administered by states, community-based agencies, or managed care organizations. The report discusses strategies that these programs use to help children not only enroll in health insurance programs but also obtain access to health care services once they are enrolled. Successful Outreach Strategies, which builds on NCEMCH's earlier report, Outreach to Children: Moving from Enrollment to Ensuring Access, describes several effective outreach practices and includes insights into the data collection and analysis strategies that the 10 programs use to monitor their operations and evaluate their effectiveness. The paper concludes with 10 recommendations drawn from the experiences of the highlighted programs that states can emulate as they implement their child health insurance programs. MCH Program Interchange: Focus on Outreach lists outreach documents from a variety of state and local sources and provides contact information to obtain the actual materials. Focus on Outreach contains information about outreach programs, training manuals and handbooks, policy briefs on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, surveys used for program development, reports of program evaluations, and outreach efforts for special populations. This resource also contains a comprehensive list of Web site resources on outreach and related topics. The publications are saved as .pdf files (portable document format), which are to be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please visit the Adobe web site and follow the instructions given to download this free software.  Outreach and the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Helping States Enroll Children and Assure Access to Care 61K 12 pages Outreach to Children: Moving from Enrollment to Ensuring Access 153 K 33 pages Successful Outreach Strategies: Ten Programs That Link Children to Health Services 183 K 41 pages MCH Program Interchange: Focus on Outreach 214 K 32 pages   Copyright © 2002 National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health and Georgetown University