Wednesday, 16 February 2000 Identification and Outreach Present: Havinne Anderson, Dee Helber, Barbara Luksch, Junedale Nishiyama, Diane Tachera, Marlene Lee, Joseph Serrao, Sally Hansen, Fay Nakamoto, Ana Rosal, Jim Santucci, Ronnie Taamu, Eve Williams, and Lucy Ndirangu Next meeting: Thursday, 16 March 2000 at 1:00 PM in the HSPCA Conference Room. 1. We reviewed page two of the cover letter that Aloha United Way ASK-2000 will send with Med-QUEST applications. It has a checklist of documents to bring to the interview or mail with a completed application. Barbara will prepare copies so mail-outs can begin 17 February 2000. 2. Lucy Ndirangu, new Kalihi-Palama Pilot Project Coordinator, told the group about her outreach efforts. She and Bob Hashimoto (new outreach worker) have met with nine public school principals and will contact the remaining thirteen public schools as well as all private schools by May. The schools are very receptive to identifying uninsured children and referring families to Hawai'i Covering Kids. Lucy and Bob are also contacting WIC and Head Start groups in the area. 3. Jim Santucci of HOPE for Kids presented information on their door-to-door outreach campaigns. Previously, they were involved in immunization information dissemination and this year he has 500-800 volunteers on Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island willing to assist our project beginning April 15. Wow! We discussed short-term and long-term plans: a. On April 15 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 NOON the volunteers will canvas Kalihi-Palama and Wai'anae as well as the Big Island and Maui and talk with families about QUEST, upcoming CHIP, the value of health insurance, dental hygiene, and immunizations, and get names and telephone numbers for health insurance follow-up. Handouts will be provided by WIC and Hawaii Covering Kids. It was noted April is the month of the young child and national nutrition month. b. Volunteers who want to continue helping us will be trained as Med-QUEST application assistants. They can be utilized in underserved areas statewide. Barbara will meet with Jim prior to our next meeting to discuss more details. 4. Sally told us about House Bill 540 that will provide health insurance for immigrant children. Barbara will follow-up and notify all state coalition members. 5. We will work on "Common Questions and Answers" at the next meeting. The list will appear on the website and can also be used as a handout. Tuesday, 8 February 2000 Evaluation Present: Maia Rogers, Laura Armstrong, Jean Kajikawa, Bill Wood, Lucy Ndirangu, and Barbara Luksch Next meeting: Tuesday, 11 April 2000 at 8:30 AM in the HSPCA Conference Room. 1. Barbara and Bill discussed the HMSAF Evaluation Project: a. Hawaii Covering Kids is working with DOH Public Health Nurses to collate public school emergency card insurance information. 1998 is completed and copies of the data were distributed. A 1999 spreadsheet is in progress. Eventually a system will be established for accurate yearly data (DOE electronic registration would definitely help this effort). The 1999 list will be validated by currently hired graduate assistants. They will look at cards that have "none" or "other." Hawaii Covering Kids will appeal to principals re: current and accurate emergency cards as part of an overall emergency plan (Barbara recently spoke to Farrington Complex principals on this issue). Principals of schools with no data will be approached through DOH and DOE. Demographic profiles will be created in the pilots of insured compared with uninsured. b. Hawaii Association of Independent Schools (HAIS) is currently collecting data from their schools. The graduate assistants will assist with this process. 2. We discussed other places for data collection: home schools (via DOE), preschools (licensed by DHS), daycare centers, Head Start, Early Head Start, and Good Beginnings Alliance. We could help these organizations by supplying a recommended emergency card format 3. Maia reported on the 14 January 14 2000 Families USA conference call. The DHHS Secretary must gather information on children's access to and utilization of health care for low-income children, broken down by income, age and race. This will be done through National Health Statistics' State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey. States may ask HHS to help with CHIP evaluation (for price). The sample size could be small and Bill noted in a UH School of Public Health study here that 7.8% were without a telephone more than one month and 8.2% were without a home more than one month. 4. Barbara gave out copies of the pilot September through December applications data. We are establishing a baseline of children's applications approved and denied and the reasons for denial.