Outreach and Enrollment Training
Tuesday, April 15th

Location: AARP Montana, Helena

9am – 5pm, with a group dinner at 6pm


Agenda and training notes:

9:00am – 9:40am Welcome, Introductions, Icebreaker
Olivia Riutta

·  Introductions and Icebreaker

o  Name, health center, Hi-low icebreaker?…

·  Ground rules:

o  Confidentiality, step-up/step-back, be present,

o  Add participant ground rules for the day

o  Write ground rules on white board and keep throughout the day

·  Review goals for the training:

o  Build a strong statewide network of O/E

o  Review our work from the first round of open-enrollment

o  Analyze what worked and what didn’t

o  Dig deep into understanding insurance utilization and insurance protections for Montana consumers

o  Brainstorm post-open enrollment work and create a draft workplan from April – November.

·  Review agenda for the day, remind people of bathrooms, snacks, wi-fi, etc.

9:40am – 10:15am Where we ended up, a review of natl. & state numbers
Christine Kaufmann

·  Christine will review the Montana O/E numbers, compare our numbers to CMS projections for Montana, compare MT to neighboring states, and the nation.

·  We will cover assists, enrollments, events, number of people reached, etc.

·  The goal is to give them a 10,000 and a 30,000 foot view of their work and to celebrate their achievements.

10:15am – 10:30am Break

10:30am – 12:00pm What worked and what didn’t Round 1!
Olivia Riutta

·  15 minute - Presentation of a best practice around in-reach (Libby or Riverstone in terms of tracking in-reach, mailing, etc.)

·  15 minute - Presentation of a best practice around outreach (Butte?)

·  35 minutes for plus/delta brainstorming activity

o  Each health center group or other regional grouping will be given a list of areas that they need to analyze in terms of a + or a Δ.

o  The list will include in-reach activities, outreach activity, and organizing and relationship building work.

o  Why did the pluses work? Can we identify why the deltas didn’t?

o  10 minutes to report back to group on two things that worked and two things that can work once they get an overhaul.

·  15 minutes – Regional overview of what worked and what didn’t.
Alyssa Panning CHAMPS

12:00pm – 12:15pm Break

12:15pm - 12:30pm Get Lunch
12:30pm – 1:45pm Digging Deep with CSI

Christina Goe, Legal Counsel for the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, facilitated by Amanda Harrow, MPCA

·  Dig deep into understanding insurance utilization and insurance protections for Montana consumers


1:45pm – 2pm Break
2pm - 3:15pm Voices of Montana Health Centers Project

·  Review HRSA/CMS guidance for post-open enrollment (5 minutes)

·  Medicaid expansion update (20 minutes)

o  How health centers can engage (other than story collection)

·  Introduce the story collection project

o  Review how we have engaged health center leadership around the project so far

o  Review legal memo

o  Review story collection “brochure”

o  Review story collection process and use

3:00pm – 4:30pm Work planning!
Alyssa Panning, CHAMPS

·  Bring back together their outcomes from plus/delta

·  Mapping the summer

·  Overview of work planning template

·  Work planning breakouts by health center/region

·  5 minutes of reporting back about this process

·  Olivia will bring the brainstorm lists that the health centers created when they participated in the HOP training in the fall of 2013

4:30 – 5:00pm Close
Olivia Riutta

·  Review some of the day’s learnings

·  Next steps:

o  What info/trainings are needed?

o  Webinars monthly? Biweekly?

o  Early October training for new staff?

·  Everyone shares one thing that learned or liked that another person brought to the training, one thing they are excited about implementing in their own heath center

6:00pm Group Dinner
Olivia Riutta

·  Appetizers will be waiting for us at Mediterranean Grill

·  Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen will join us as our special guest for dinner (C. Goe also invited).

·  After everyone has eaten, Olivia or Christine will present Monica with an award and thank her for her support of our O/E work

·  Commissioner Lindeen will say a few words to the group

·  Olivia will present Health Center Awards:

o  Number of meetings to get to an enrollment

o  Greatest % of health center population enrolled

o  Highest number of enrollments

o  Greatest numbers of “touches”

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