Promoting Community Health Center Immigrant Outreach

• Created a comprehensive resource manual explaining immigrants’ eligibility for health insurance, specifically for CHCs outside New York City.
• Used the manual in three statewide training sessions for immigrant benefit experts.
• Created a curriculum for the statewide training sessions that highlighted specific issues raised during the manual development process.
• Distributed the manual through the CHCANYS network of more than 50 statewide CHCs, which includes more than 425 sites throughout New York State.
• Coordinated and facilitated the New York State Community Health Center Immigrant Eligibility and Coverage Workgroup, which comprises immigrant health insurance specialists.
• Developed policy recommendations related to the barriers that CHCs face in enrolling immigrant patients in health insurance and sent recommendations to officials at the NYSDOH.

Read the report associated with this grant, “An Assessment of New York Health Foundation 2007 Health Insurance Coverage Grants.”

Read the manual associated with this grant, “Community, Migrant, and Homeless Center Handbook.”