1. State Coalition Meeting Please join us on 28 October at 10:00 am at the YWCA on Richards Street to learn more about Hawai`i's three QUEST plans, plastic identification cards issued to Med-QUEST's customers, and updates from the recent Covering Kids & Families annual meeting. A map link is available at http://www.coveringkids.com/calendar/ 2. Immigrant Media Campaign Phase 2 We are sponsoring news stories and interviews, as well as radio, television, and newspaper advertisements targeting parents and guardians of Korean, Vietnamese, and Marshallese children. Details will be posted next week at http://www.coveringkids.com/news/Section_157.asp. 3. Covering Kids & Families Process Improvement Collaborative Due to our recent strides with simplification strategies, Hawaii has been selected to participate in this thirteen-month initiative. Our team has two Med-QUEST representatives (Alan Takahashi and Jeffrey Young), one local project representative (Stephany Vaioleti), and the Hawaii Covering Kids project director (Barbara Luksch). The collaborative's overall goal is to accelerate the process of maximizing efficient and effective enrollment and renewal processes for eligible adults and children in Medicaid and CHIP. We look forward to this new initiative and are eager to learn from the technical expertise provided by the national collaborative leadership and other states. 4. Back-to-School 2003 Enrollment events, outreach activities, media campaigns, and more! Read about our state and local project initiatives to link eligible children and youth to free health insurance at http://www.coveringkids.com/news/Section_184.asp. Also, to help states sustain their successes, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Covering Kids & Families are sponsoring a communications camp in November. Three state coalition members and two local project representatives will travel to Washington, D.C. to learn new information and skills to improve our project's future communications and outreach work.