The Dayton Public Schools (DPS)is one of two award recipients in Ohio charged with the task of increasing enrollment in the Children Health Insurance Program.  Funded by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the CHIPRA (Children's Health Insurance Program Re-authorization Act) grants went to sixty communities across the country.

Working in partnership with the Community Health Advocacy Program of the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC), DPS and CHC staff will engage in the following activities during the grant period October 2009 through September 2011.

1)   Conduct community assessment of barriers to accessing health care and Medicaid enrollment
2)   Conduct a series of educational events for school based personnel, community based health and social service providers, and community members
3)   Provide specific outreach and referral services using Community Health Advocates (CHAs) to provide one on one assistance with Medicaid enrollment to individual families
4)   Provide continuous follow-up with families through CHAs following denial of application and at the point of recertification
5)   Conduct ongoing process and outcome evaluation

CHAs will be using the HIEx™ system to document demographic and eligibility as well as enrollment outcome data, and will be working in partnership with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to track Medicaid enrollments, denials, and recertification.

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For more information contact Kimberly Conner at 937-775-8254, kimberly.conner@wright.edu