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The Children’s Health Access & Medical Program (CHAMP) works to ensure that every child in Los Angeles County has access to health care. Despite numerous public and private outreach efforts to enroll eligible, uninsured children into public and privately financed health insurance programs in LA County, 115,000 eligible children remain uninsured. The complexity of enrollment and renewal procedures prevents many families from enrolling their children into healthcare coverage; for this reason many families turn to Application Assistance services in their community. CHAMP presents a comprehensive approach to assuring children have access to health care services by providing programs that focus on information dissemination, education and technical assistance. As the preeminent training agency in LA County, NHF provides quality, up-to-date Application Assistor training in order to maintain an adequate number of well-informed assistors. NHF has conducted CHAMP training in 18 California counties including Los Angeles, and will expand its efforts to Orange County this year. CHAMP provides ongoing technical assistance and resources for assistors to help families apply for, maintain and utilize healthcare coverage.
- Provide 50 comprehensive training sessions to more than 750 Application Assistors annually
- Create a pool of knowledgeable advocates for children’s health who directly assist with healthcare coverage enrollment
- Increase the number of successfully submitted applications for healthcare coverage
- Improve families’ understanding and awareness of available healthcare coverage options
- Increase the number of children from low- and moderate-income families who have access to healthcare coverage, leading to a usual source of care, access to preventive care and necessary health care services.
- Widespread use of the application assistor is a model program which incorporates best practices in outreach, enrollment, retention and utilization to reduce barriers to coverage.
- a larger pool of well-trained application assistors will ensure that any expansion of health coverage increases enrollment in health coverage and appropriate utilization of health benefits.
For Los Angeles County CHAMP training, funding is generously provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Children’s Health Outreach Initiative and California Community Foundation. For Orange County CHAMP training, funding is generously provided by the George Hoag Family Foundation.
With support from the George Hoag Family Foundation, NHF is working with CONNECT OC to expand CHAMP Training in Orange County.
Brooke Fox, Phone: 213-538-0774, email: bfox@nhfca.org
Click HERE for a schedule of upcoming trainings.
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