Post on 10-Oct-2020
Karin Szymanski, M.Ed Project Coordinator
Community Outreach
The Arizona Partnership for
Immunization
The Arizona Partnership for Immunization
Celebrating 25 years
Babies are born in AZ each day, none arrive immunized. - Dr. Daniel T Cloud, TAPI Founder
Mission
We foster community wellness and advocate for good public policy and best immunization practices.
Goal To deliver age appropriate immunizations by the year 2020 to at least 90% of Arizona’s two-year-old children before their second birthday and to encourage appropriate immunizations through
the lifespan.
Child Care Outreach • Why Child Care Outreach?
• Child care centers work with infants
and young children – our vulnerable. • Parents see their child care workers as
the ‘go to’ for a lot of their child care answers.
• Child care centers are required to turn in center immunization reports to the state
• Child care workers tend to have lower pay and poor or no health insurance – another vulnerable population.
Child Care Outreach
National Infant Immunization Week and Surround Your Baby with a Vaccinated Family messages were a perfect platform to begin our outreach to childcare centers.
• Immunization message focus - • education for the centers/employees regarding the children
• education for the centers regarding their employees
• education for the employees regarding their family members.
• This message partnered with Arizona State Immunization Information System (ASIIS) education gave them an incentive (due to the required Immunization Data Report).
Child Care Outreach
What our total outreach developed into:
• ASIIS
• ASIIS Child Care Module
• Immunization Data Report (IDR) mailings
• Exemption Form workgroup
• Outreach Materials
• Outreach Efforts (conferences, events, meetings)
Child Care Education - ASIIS
Goal : Increase ASIIS child care provider enrollment and use of the immunization registry.
Outcome:
• Prior to July 2010 = 527 providers
• March 2011 = 716 providers
• May 2012 = 957 providers
ASIIS Child Care Module
• Pilot from Maricopa County began in 2011 • 5 test sites started with trainings and
over the next year the pilot grew to 30 sites.
• TAPI and Maricopa County conducted workgroup meetings for feedback on module needs, challenges and ease of use.
• TAPI provided hands on training and support for pilot centers to utilize the ASIIS Child Care Module.
Immunization Data Report (IDR’s) Mailings
TAPI, with ADHS, mailed ASIIS enrollment education flyers, pertussis and flu education materials in yearly mailing packets of
IDR’s to all licensed child care centers in Arizona.
Partnerships Partnership Development
• Arizona Child Care Association (state-wide) • State-wide Annual Meeting • Newsletter education
• Association of Supportive Child Care (statewide) • Celebrate the Child Conference • Monthly networking meeting • Kinship care conference • Education materials and resources
• Child Care Health/Nurse Consultants (state-wide) • Trainings of staff and assisted in Child Care trainings
• First Things First (state-wide) • Annual Conference vendor • Meeting with staff for immunization education advocacy
Child Care Work Group
• Brought group together to review ASIIS use, IDR and exemption tools.
Exemption Forms
Website Child Care Pages Provided an ongoing resource for Child Care Workers to reference.
WhyImmunize.org
Website - Child Care Pages
Growing Healthy Babies Healthy Kids Growing Up
Partnership with March of Dimes
Developed with Community health centers Maternal and Child Health Hard to Reach Populations health
agencies
Focused on EPSDT and HEDIS measurements preconception health
immunizations
National Infant Immunization Week
This message became our platform to continue education of child care centers about the importance of immunization rates in their centers, but also immunizations needed for the child care employees as well as family members.
National Infant Immunization Week
Ongoing – TAPI continues to utilize the NIIW message each year to drive home to child care centers the importance of vaccination rates in the centers as well as with employees.
Contact Information
Karin Szymanski
Project Coordinator
KarinS@tapi.org
919.917.8080
HPV shot #2 and yearly flu shot