Outreach Works: Strategies for Expanding Health Access in Communities

"This useful book provides proven models and helpful how-to information for making outreach work," says Ron Pollack, Executive Director of Families USA.

With more options for publicly funded health programs, states are still struggling to enroll their residents in health care. This new resource tackles the question: If coverage is available, why is enrollment so difficult?

Outreach Works includes:
-168 pages of field-tested, jargon-free information. -Nuts-and-bolts information needed to create effective partnerships with communities.
-Tried-and-true outreach strategies that produce real results.
-Practical outreach resources and user-friendly enrollment tools.
-Examples of successful models and best practices for outreach, enrollment, and post-enrollment efforts promoting use of services.

Outreach Works walks the reader through how Massachusetts developed successful models for community-based outreach to become a leader in the nation in outreach and enrollment.

Find out:
-Why community is the key to successful enrollment.
-How to engage communities in outreach, enrollment, and follow-up and the use of health care services.
-What's working, what's not, and how to keep the goal in reach.