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Karin Szymanski, M.Ed Project Coordinator Community Outreach The Arizona Partnership for Immunization

Babies are born in AZ each day, none arrive immunized. - Dr. Daniel T Cloud, TAPI Founder The Ari rizona Partnership for Im Immunization Celeb ebra ratin ting 25 year ars

Miss ission We foster community wellness and advocate for good public policy and best immunization practices. Goa oal 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.

Chil ild Care Outr treach • 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.

Chil ild Care Outr treach National Infant Immunization Week and Surround Your Baby with a Vaccinated Fam ily 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).

Chil ild Care Outr treach 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)

Chil ild Car are Educatio ion - 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 Chil ild Care Module le • 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

Chil ild Care Work Group • Brought group together to review ASIIS use, IDR and exemption tools.

Ex Exemption Forms

Websit ite Chil ild Care Pages Provided an ongoing resource for Child Care Workers to reference. WhyImmunize.org

Websit ite - Chil ild Care Pages

Growing He Healt lthy Ba Babies He Healt lthy Kids ids Growing Up 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 In Infant Im 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 In Infant Im 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 In Informatio ion Karin Szymanski Project Coordinator KarinS@tapi.org 919.917.8080 HPV shot #2 and yearly flu shot