AASA promotes health care coverage for all children.AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators AASA Asian American Student Association AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army recently sent a letter to all members providing valuable information about health care coverage for students. The following is a summary of the information in that letter. We believe it bears repeating, and hope you will take time to consider how you might use this information to benefit students in your district. More than 8 million children in this country are without health care coverage, despite the fact that most of them are eligible for low-cost or free coverage right now through the State Children's Health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. Insurance Program (SCHIP SCHIP State Children's Health Insurance Program ) or Medicaid Medicaid, national health insurance program in the United States for low-income persons; established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. . In most states, a family of four earning up to $36,000 a year may qualify for SCHIP or Medicaid coverage. But research shows that half of all parents with uninsured children eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid do not realize their kids may qualify. You can be a part of the solution for uninsured school children in your district. It can be as simple as writing down a toll-free number-1-877-KIDS-NOW -- to pass on to parents in your community. Callers are connected to an operator in their state who can help answer questions and start the application process. You can have your teachers send home fliers with their students about low-cost and free health care coverage with school lunch applications or emergency notification cards. You could also write a letter to the editor of your local paper about the problem of the uninsured in your community; or invite the media to an outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. and enrollment event hosted by a school in your district. These are just a few of the ways that you can help connect children in your community with the health care coverage they need. The Covering Kids Back-to-School 2002 Action Kit has all the tips and templates you need to reach out to families with uninsured children, the community and the media. The kit is available online. For links to the kit and other information about the Covering Kids coalition and outreach materials, such as fliers, posters and bookmarks available in English 1. English - (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favourite programming language is and Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. , go to www.aasa.org and click on Issues and Insights then Children's Initiatives. |
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