Strengthening public interest in low-income Hoosiers' health and the shared responsibility of supporting continuous health coverage for better wellness and care.
Project led by Professors David Craig & Pamela Napier
Graduate students: Amrita Datta & Luis Garcia
PROJECT OVERVIEW
"A New HIP Public” is a community-engaged project, that was selected for the 2020 Charles R. Bantz Community Fellowship. HIP is the acronym for the Healthy Indiana Plan, which is Indiana's Medicaid expansion which provides Medicaid coverage to low-income Hoosiers.
During this project, we worked with various community partners to achieve distinct goals. Each brought a unique perspective and contribution to our work, and we want to start this section by thanking all of them.
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PROJECT PARTNERS
First we engaged with MDWISE, who contributed their knowledge about the process, challenges, and current efforts to bring new members to HIP Plus.
As one of the four Managed Care Entities that have contracts with the State of Indiana to manage the health benefits for members of the Healthy Indiana Plan, they brought a critical understanding of how the system works and gave us clues on how to strengthen certain aspects of it.
The HealthyMe community focused on working with congregation representatives to collaboratively set a vision about supporting health and wellness for low-income African Americans in the Indianapolis area. Given the complexity of this project, the session was divided into three sections -- common goals, strength and assets and outcomes .
Common goal section encouraged the participants to reflect on the idea of understanding and thinking deeper about challenges in communicating the importance of supporting health and wellness.
The Center for Interfaith Cooperation as one the most diverse religious communities across central Indiana, gave us a rich understanding on how to develop engaging messaging, communication channels, and feedback for the conceptual directions of this project.
Finally, during the Spring 2021 semester, we collaborated with the Visual Communication Design and Religious Studies programs to develop the first version of campaign materials and health and wellness visuals.
The collaboration was fruitful as it allowed both sides to understand better religious communities' efforts and the importance of good communication in complex systems such as HIP.
The results from all these session helped the research team to go through a final
iteration of the conceptual prototypes before packaging them for the Spring 2021 semester portion of this project.
