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3 Special Events • Volunteers staffed two "booths" with information and applications at a local grocery store in December. • Hope for Kids distributed 1200 brochures in door-to-door campaign in tazgeted neighborhoods on April 16, 1999. • Michelle Easter from the Interfaith Council and several of her colleagues organized two outreach days at the Buckhorn flea mazket in August. The first was August 1 and the second one is the last Sunday in August. Eligibility for undocumented aliens continues to be a problem. Outreach in the School Systems • Posted flyers in each school in both school systems in late September 1998. • School nurses and social workers aze checking student information cazds for health insurance listings (fall 1999). • Health Department Health Check Coordinator attended eight kindergarten registrations at schools in April and May. • The 1999 version of the one-page flyer was distributed to ALL schools in both school systems with a request to include it in the general information packet that each student gets the first week of school. Know that some schools did include it in the children's registration packets. Other Outreach Activities • Health Choice flyers attached to all pre-school dental screening in April and May (approximately 2000 pre-school children in day caze centers or family day care). • Health Department Health Check Coordinator called all clients on Health Department database that aze not identified as Health Check to encourage them to apply. Recent Activities/Information • The Task Force has been nominated for the Glaxo Wellcome Child Health Recognition awazd for Health Choice. • Orange County was selected as one county visited by a Health Caze Financing Administration site visit team. Coalition members reported on agency outreach activities to the site visit team. • Orange County has received $1,497 for this fiscal yeaz as part of a statewide allocation to enhance our outreach efforts in this county. The coalition is in the process of developing a "re-enrollment" strategy for the county. The coalition proposed developing bulletin inserts for churches, planning more door-to-door outreach in tazgeted azeas and proposed developing a call system to encourage re-enrollment. • The dental benefits for Health Choice were increased during this last session of the legislature to include two cleanings during a 12-month period, sealants, simple extractions, therapeutic pulpotomies, and prefabricated stainless steel crowns. The state will be sending a mailing through the NC Dental Society to all dentists with this information. The task force may do a local mailing as well. • At the last coalition meeting, several agencies asked for another training session on the application because of staff turnover at various agencies.