Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign Notes: Webinar Tomorrow, 6/3 – Strategies to Help Kids Safely Return to School – Vaccinated and Ready to Learn

Webinar Tomorrow, 6/3 – Still Time to Register! Strategies to Help Kids Safely Return to School – Vaccinated and Ready to Learn The Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign Invites You to Attend a Webinar: Strategies to Help Kids Safely Return to School – Vaccinated and Ready to Learn Thursday, June 3, 2021 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted both in-person learning and routine well-child visits for many children over the last year. As a result, too many children have fallen behind on receiving recommended vaccines and other important care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) public sector vaccine ordering data show a 14% drop in 2020-2021 compared to 2019, and the measles vaccine is down by more than 20%.[i] The CDC’s Vaccines for Children program reports that provider orders are down by 11.7 million doses as of May 2021 compared with 2019 orders.[ii]  Additionally, the vaccine rate for children under 2 is down by 9% and the number of child screening services for children in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) declined by 21% from March – October 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.[iii] Children and teens need to get caught up with vaccinations and missed care now, so they are protected when they go back to in-person learning. And these services are covered by Medicaid and CHIP. As families prepare for Back-to-School season, the Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign (Campaign) webinar will cover current data on childhood vaccinations, and provide ideas organizations can use to help children and teens in their communities catch up on missed care, including annual check-ups and vaccinations. The webinar will also focus on promoting the COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents. Join this webinar for the latest information on catching children up on missed vaccines and promoting the COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents, hear what strategies partners are using to help connect children to care, and learn about resources your organization can use in outreach and enrollment efforts. Hear about the Campaign’s many resources to promote well-child visits and vaccines on InsureKidsNow.gov, which include a digital video, social media, text messages, and newsletter articles. Webinar speakers feature: Shannon Stokley, DrPH, MPH, Associate Director for Science, Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Virginia Mika, PhD, MPH, Deputy Chief Analytics Officer, Community Programs, University Health and Connecting Kids to Coverage Grant Project Director Nora I. Silva, MPA, Assistant Director, Community Engagement & Population Health, University Health Rawha Abouarabi, Public Health Coordinator/Navigator Grant Project Director, Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS) Michigan Darshana Panchal, MPH, Outreach Contractor, Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign, Porter Novelli Public Services REGISTER HERE We Want to Hear from You! The Campaign wants to hear how organizations like yours are helping get children and teens get vaccinated. Send us an email at ConnectingKids@cms.hhs.gov. And visit our website to access slides and recordings from previous Campaign webinars.­­­­ Stay Connected with the Campaign  Share our Campaign materials. Our ever-growing, multi-lingual Outreach Tool Library features a variety of targeted resources to use in your outreach and enrollment efforts, available in multiple formats. Contact us. To get more involved with the Campaign, contact us via email at ConnectingKids@cms.hhs.gov. Follow the Campaign on Twitter. Remember to re-tweet or share our messages from @IKNGov with your social network and be sure to use our #Enroll365 and #KidsEnroll hashtags in your posts. Subscribe to the “Campaign Notes” eNewsletter The Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign eNewsletter “Campaign Notes” is distributed throughout the year and provides updates on Campaign activities. If a friend or colleague forwarded this email to you, we invite you to sign up to receive this eNewsletter directly to your inbox. [i] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/clinical-resources/downloads/safe-return-school.pdf [ii] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-05-12/05-COVID-Woodworth-508.pdf [iii]https://www.medicaid.gov/state-resource-center/downloads/covid-19-medicaid-data-snapshot.pdf

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