Hawaii Covering Kids is participating in presentations by the Rapid Response Team throughout the state. Thanks to our partnership with Hawaii State Department of Human Services (DHS) and Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), this message is on unemployment checks beginning 19 May 2009 to help recipients access children’s health insurance information: "Does your child need health insurance? Call 211 (free from all islands) or visit www.coveringkids.com for information about Med-QUEST’s free health insurance programs for kids." We distributed standup signs (Does Your Child Need Health Insurance? Talk to Me!”) and a total of 3,500 flyers through DLIR's Workforce Development Offices in Hilo, Honolulu, Kona, Lihue, Wailuku, and Waipahu. DLIR has a download link, "QUEST Health Insurance Information for Children," on its Information for Laid Off / Displaced Workers web page with a PDF copy of our flyer and children’s health insurance program information. The Laborers' International Union of North America Local 368 posted a link to Hawaii Covering Kids on its website's homepage. Download a copy of our comprehensive report published December 2008 in PDF format by clicking here: QUEST Is Best 2008 Media Outreach Campaign During May 2008, we conducted radio interviews, placed community newspaper advertisements, distributed a news release, and joined presentations to inform recently laid-off employees about health insurance for their children. Many of these families had never been connected to government services, therefore emphasis was enrolling kids in QUEST and Medicaid Fee-for-Service and explaining how the programs operate. Mahalo plenty to these radio stations for playing our thirty-second PSA: Hawaii: Da Beat, ESPN Radio, KAPA, and KBIG Kauai: KONG, KUAI 720, Shaka Rocks, and Surf 95.9 Maui: Da Jam 98-3, ESPN Radio KMVI, KPOA, 99.9 KISS FM, X 92.5, and The Talk of Maui 900 KNUI Oahu: KSSK, Hot 93.9, 95.5 The Fish, KRTR 96.3, KHCM 97.5 Hawaii’s Country Music, Island Rhythm 98.5, 99.5 The Jewel, KCCN FM 100, Star 101.9, Power 104.3, Hawaiian 105 KINE, Oldies 107.9, AM 690 KHNR News Talk, AM 760 KGU Hawaii’s Christian Talk, News Radio 830 KHVH, and The Talk Station 990 KHBZ The Hawaii Covering Kids project director participated in two morning radio interviews encouraging laid off workers to call 211 or visit www.coveringkids.com for information about QUEST health insurance for their children: 25 April 2008 at 8:17 on KRTR 96.3 FM and 29 April 2008 at 8:10 on KDNN 98.5 FM. We placed six black and white and six full-color advertisements in eleven publications: MidWeek, East Oahu People, Honolulu People, Central Oahu People, Leeward People, West Oahu People, Windward People, Maui News, West Hawaii Today, The Garden Island, and Hawaii Tribune Herald. The Lokahi Giving Project mailed our children’s health insurance flyer with its resource packets to 2,875 former Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines employees and we co-sponsored an outreach table with Med-QUEST at the Aloha for Aloha Block Party in downtown Honolulu on 2 May 2008. We partnered with the Hawaii State Department of Human Services and Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to include a letter about children's health insurance options with May 2008 unemployment checks. We also partnered with DLIR Workforce Development Division to post signs and distribute flyers at their Hilo, Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, Lihue, Wailuku, and Waipahu offices. Media Coverage "Hope rises in wake of cuts; Laid-off ML&P workers look at future options" in The Maui News, Honolulu, July 30, 2008. "Unemployed urged to get kids on QUEST" in The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, April 18, 2008.