Students are responsible for identifying families with uninsured children and tracking them through the enrollment process. The club or association adopts children s health insurance as a community service project. CDF-NY has partnered with the American Medical Association Student Section. The model focuses on educating students about the issue of children s health insurance and encouraging the students to devise outreach efforts. Community Service Day Model .
Schools often sponsor community service days or drives.
CDF-NY has had success with partnering with special community service days. The Prep for Prep students have had similar successes by recruiting students from their schools for large outreach days. While media campaigns and simplified enrollment systems are being implemented across the country, including funding community-based organizations to serve as enrollers, a remaining challenge is identifying families with eligible children and getting them to the point of enrollment. Students can fill this gap in the overall outreach and enrollment strategy. Students need to contact organizations such as CDF-NY which are already coordinating children s health insurance outreach and enrollment in their states and communities.