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