Promising Practices in Outreach and Enrollment: Lessons Learned from Colorado’s Outreach and Enrollment Learning Collaborative
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New Report Showcases Promising Practices in Outreach and Enrollment
A new report from Colorado Covering Kids and Families and the Colorado Health Foundation showcases the most promising outreach and enrollment (O&E) practices in Colorado based on the work of the 10 organizations that participated in the Colorado Health Foundation’s Community Approach to O&E funding opportunity. The report, Promising Practices in Outreach and Enrollment: Lessons Learned from Colorado’s Outreach and Enrollment Learning Collaborative, is written for organizations and communities beginning their own O&E program for health coverage, and provides new approaches for those who are already doing this work. The five key practices identified in the report are: 1) collaborating with community partners; 2) co-locating programs/services; 3) creating an O&E workplan; 4) hiring or cultivating relationships with individuals who are already trusted members of the communities you want to reach; and 5) using data to find the eligible but not enrolled. Click here to view the full report.
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New Report Showcases Promising Practices in Outreach and Enrollment
In spring of 2014 the Colorado Health Foundation, Colorado Covering Kids and Families (CKF), Connect for Health Colorado, and the PEAK Outreach Initiative began meeting to discuss how to be more strategic about outreach and enrollment (O&E) in Colorado. As a result of these discussions, the Foundation contracted with CKF to implement and manage anO&E Learning Collaborative, along withHarder+Company Community Research to evaluate the learning collaborative. The Foundation funded 10 grantees from across Colorado to participate in theirCommunity Approach to O&Efunding opportunity.
The O&E Learning Collaborative’s findings are compiled in a new report, Promising Practices in Outreach and Enrollment: Lessons Learned from Colorado’s Outreach and Enrollment Learning Collaborative.The report showcases the most promising O&E practices in Colorado fororganizations and communities wishing to begin their own O&E program for health coverage, or to serve as inspiration for those who are already doing this work to try new approaches. It was compiled by CKF based on the work of the 10 participants of the O&E Learning Collaborative. The five key O&E practices for health coverage identified from the work of the participants are: 1) collaborating with community partners; 2) co-locating programs/services; 3) creating an O&E workplan; 4) hiring or cultivating relationships with individuals who are already trusted members of the communities you want to reach; and 5) using data to find the eligible but not enrolled.
Other topics addressed within the report include organizing O&E events, developing and distributing outreach materials, population-specific promising practices (including for children and families, the justice-involved, and young invincibles), useful venues for outreach, helpful tools to support you in your partnerships and O&E work, and some activities that are unrelated to direct O&E services but are still very important in order to have successful assisters and clients. Click here to view the full report.