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Webinar in English: Outreach and enrollment will be critical in connecting uninsured and under-insured Latino adolescents and young adults to the health insurance marketplaces. This webinar will provide demographic data, demonstrate gaps in health coverage, and offer insight in to what constitutes successful outreach and enrollment.

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Seminario virtual en Español: Alcance e inscripción va ser crítico en conectar a los jóvenes latinos, adolescentes y jóvenes adultos sin cobertura médica a seguros de salud en el Mercado. Este seminario proporcionará datos demográficos; se hablará de las brechas de cuidado de salud que existen y se identificará los diferentes tipos de alcance e inscripción eficaces.

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The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to increase access to care for millions of individuals in this country, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. This webinar was held on September 27, and is the fifth in a series of outreach efforts conducted by the US Dept of HHS, SAMHSA, the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, NAAPIMHA, and the National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse, NAPAFASA. Presenters discussed best ways to engage the community and provided updates on how ACA will impact behavioral health services for our communities.

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In this webinar participants learned best approaches to engage with Hispanics and which communication tools to develop within traditional and non-traditional media. The presentation included best practices from campaign partners and lessons on how to reach Latinos from various assimilation levels of the Spanish-dominant, bilingual and English-dominant populations. Basic public relation principles versus the latest trends in social media were explored with case study presentations from the field.  Watch the webinar recording.

Latinos need specialized outreach messaging. This presentation discusses specific outreach and enrollment efforts aimed at overcoming barriers to enrollment in health insurance.  Watch the webinar recording.

This webinar explored the importance of partnerships and how they can further enhance outreach and enrollment success. It featured two innovative practices confirming that partnerships can provide greater opportunities, increase capacity and help reach wider audiences.

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This webinar is part of series offered through Ventanillas de Bienestar, a training and technical assistance program providing support and training to community-based organizations and behavioral health clinics from across the country on effective outreach and enrollment strategies of uninsured and newly eligible Latinos. For more information on Ventanillas de Bienestar, please visit the National Latino Behavioral Health Association website.

Ventanillas de Bienestar is a webinar training initiative of the National Latino Behavioral Health Association developed to help community-based organizations learn about effective outreach and enrollment strategies of uninsured Latino populations. With more than 50 millions Latinos in the United States and approximately 15 million who are uninsured, Ventanillas de Bienestar trains community-based organizations on how to reach out to Latinos and how to assist them in enrolling them in Medicaid and health exchange programs. This webinar provided an overview of outreach and enrollment, successful strategies for reaching the Latino/a population, and existing gaps in outreach; and described how outreach activities and tools can be tailored for the Latino/a population.

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