141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Challenges for Exchanges in Reaching Diverse Communities


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.

Alta Lash, United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods, Hartford, CT
This presentation will describe the potential for community organizing strategies and techniques to increase the enrollment of currently uninsured vulnerable groups. Successful community organizing strategies will be discussed.

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Explain the role of the “power analysis” as a step in community organizing and its importance to increasing enrollment under the ACA. Identify successful community organizing strategies for promoting enrollment into health care coverage under the ACA.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Executive Director of the United CT Action for Neighborhoods. I have been involved in community organizing for more than 35 years. I also teach college level courses on grassroots organizing.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4283.0: IOM Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities: Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Implementation of the ACA