 Hillsborough School District A CASE STUDY April Griffin, School Board Member

Hillsborough School District  Why District Came to the Table  Top Down and Bottom Up  Internal Staff Leadership  Collaborative Funding  Challenges  Back to School Events

Why District Came to the Table  Healthy Kids are Better Students  Nearly Half of the Students Would be Eligible  Board Member Connected to Goal  Reputation of Community Partner

Top Down and Bottom Up  Requires School Board Buy-in  Requires Commitment of Superintendent  Personal communication to leadership team  Public identification with effort  School Principals Must Support at School Site  Parents Must be Involved with Outreach and Enrollment Process

Internal Staff Leadership  Middle Manager with Good Peer Network  Understands benefit to students  Champion for process changes  Sees outcomes as enhancing current goals

Collaborative Funding  Partner has Leverage  District Leadership has Leverage  Negotiations and Agreements Taken Seriously  Bi-lateral Setting of Measurable Objectives

Challenges  Use of Common Identifier  District uses student I.D. #  State uses S.S.N.  Correlation between size of organization and response time  Change is a people process  Process change is all about people

Back to School Events  Back to School Event Registration  Identify if children have insurance  Collect contact information for SCHIP follow up  SCHIP Applications at Back to School Event  Educate parents about SCHIP and documentation needed to apply BEFORE event  Advertise that SCHIP applications can be made at event  Provide wireless laptops, printers, and application assistants to Back to School events