 CDF's
100% Campaign is an effort to systematically
identify every uninsured child through school enrollment forms
and link them with affordable health coverage.
The
100% Campaign educates families about how to utilize and renew
their children's health coverage to avoid unnecessary and costly
emergency room visits.
The
school-based outreach model has been successful because schools
are a number one trusted source of information with direct access
to families.
CDF's
100% Campaign has been recognized by the American Association
of School Administrators, America's Promise
Alliance, the Robert Wood Johnson Covering
Kids & Families initiative and by Leadership
Houston who honored CDF-TX with its 2009 Leadership
in Action award.
Building
off of a pilot project funded by the Michael and Susan Dell
Foundation in 2003, the 100% Campaign was
launched in the Houston Independent School District in 2007
with funding from St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities, Memorial
Hermann Healthcare Systems, Texas Children's Hospital, Health
Plan and Pediatric Associates and HISD.
CDF-TX has continued to expand its school-based outreach efforts
beyond HISD to include 19 additional districts in Harris County
and 15 school districts in the Rio Grande Valley.
In
2009, with funding from Amerigroup Community Care, the 100%
Campaign expanded to the Alief and Spring Branch school districts
in the greater Houston area.
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CDF's
Every Child, A Healthy Child initiative works
with 19 school districts in Harris County to link uninsured
students with affordable health coverage by adding a health
insurance question to school enrollment forms so that schools
can target outreach to uninsured students eligible for CHIP
and Children's Medicaid.
