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level conducive to the process. Also, focus will be placed on enrolling children already eligible for other means-tested programs such as the Free and Reduced School Meal program, Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) Pre-School Program, WIC, and Head Start.

Organizations who could provide KCHIP outreach, and application assistance may include the following:

• Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH), Community Health Centers, Community Mental Health Centers, and family planning clinics, • Free Clinics, • Churches, • *Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) • Family Resource/Youth Services Centers, • Location of contracted providers (private physicians’ offices, hospitals and others); Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families eligibility determination sites at county social service agencies, • Area Development Districts (ADDs), • Job training centers and employment offices, • Other state programs including public schools’ Free and Reduced school meal program; the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs; the Special Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); • Commodity Supplemental Foods Program (CSFP); subsidized housing; and other public health services, • County public health departments, • Public schools through distribution of materials to families in school mailings or newsletters and at back-to-school programs, • Kentucky Homeplace Project, a home visitation program, • University of Kentucky Mobile Dental Program, • Insurance agents, • Kentucky Council on Child Abuse, and, • Kentucky Optometric Association.

*Note – Department for Social Insurance and Department for Social Services have been combined through reorganization and are called Department for Community Based Services.

The level of involvement of these various organizations will be contingent upon the expertise and competency of the staff and their proximity to children and their families. These organizations should have the potential of coming in contact with a large number of children.

Within the first year of plan approval, the KCHIP staff will investigate and finalize specific outreach strategies with the assistance of the statewide coalition described later in this section. The outreach process will be continuously refined for the purpose of reaching the greatest number of eligibles for both KCHIP and Medicaid.