Spread the word by inserting flyers on the CHIP in the bulletins, newsletters and other publications of your school. Distribute flyers, brochures, and applications at school-sponsored events and other community events. Distribute information and applications in places where families work, play, and live. Include apartment buildings, childcare centers, health clinics, local businesses, and recreation centers in your outreach efforts, and seek out a partnership with them. Talk to families that you encounter in the clinic or hospital rotation and inquire if they have health coverage for their children.
Many medical schools have community health vans.
Inquire if you can distribute information to the community through this service. Partner with religious institutions, health advocates local elected officials, the media and local businesses to create a Local Day of Social Action. Plan a grand event in your community to help spread the word about the importance of proper health coverage. This type of event will help put pressure on the state to make appropriate changes in the CHIP and Medicaid programs. Back to Top Future Plans AMSA Foundation, the programming arm of AMSA that secures private and governmental grants to develop their programs, may be applying for a grant that will create opportunities for AMSA members to be coordinators for CHIP at their medical school.