“Educate and Activate!” is the theme for the second annual Health Center Advocate Video Contest.
The goal of the contest is for health center advocates, staff and patients to creatively educate about Community Health Centers and the legislative hurdles health centers face, and to activate new and existing health center supporters to stand up and take action!
CATEGORIES: New this year, video submissions should fall under one of the following four categories:
1. Federal Support: Show us how your health center has benefited from federal grant dollars, money from the Affordable Care Act? Show us how these dollars have benefitted patients served by the health center and/or the community.
2. Access: How does your health center enable you and other patients in the community to have access to health care? Share with us what might happen if the health center were no longer available? How does Medicaid (or SCHIP) coverage allow you, or other patients, to access care at your health center? Show us how the Medicaid Program benefits your health center, its patients or you?
3. Advocacy: What does it mean to be a health center advocate? Why should someone advocate for your health center? How do your health center’s supporters advocate for their health center? Show us how you are an active health center advocate?
4. Clinician Stories: Tell us how working at a health center has impacted the way you practice medicine? Tell other clinicians why they should work at a community health center? How has the National Health Service Corp impacted your ability to practice medicine the way you want?
Note: You are not required to answer all of the questions listed above for a given category, but your video must specifically address one of the categories and the category you are addressing must be indicated upon submission.
TO ENTER: Individuals should create and submit a short video, no longer than three minutes, that addresses one of the contest categories. Every video submission must include a “Call to Action”, compelling viewers to get involved as an advocate, and must contain the advocate sign up link: www.nachc.org/signup. How you choose to incorporate the link in your video is up to you. The NACHC Advocacy Team will review all videos submitted by the contest deadline and contest winners will be announced during the 2011 NACHC Community Health Institute Conference in San Diego.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Friday, July 29th, 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET
ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST COMPLY WITH THE COMPLETE CONTEST RULES - AVAILABLE HERE.
Voting on Finalist Video Submissions: August 7–13
On August 7th the finalist videos that most effectively and interestingly address one of the four contest categories will be announced and voting will be begin. Videos to be voted on will be selected by the NACHC Advocacy Team. Finalist videos will be posted on the Community Health Center Facebook page and Health Center Week website.
Contest winners will be chosen based on the number of votes made by clicking “Like”. The videos that receive the most votes by 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET on Friday, August 13th, as determined by the NACHC Advocacy Team, will be the winners.
PRIZES:
GRAND PRIZE: Videos receiving the most votes (4 winners total).
Featured Health Centers will receive: One (1) 2012 Policy & Issues Forum registration.
Video submitters will receive a Flip Ultra Camcorder and be recognized with their video
highlighted and aired at the 2012 Policy & Issues Forum.
Video submitters will be featured on a national webinar to talk about how they made their video
and to share their “behind the scenes” director’s view on advocacy video creation.
Runner-Up: Video finishing in second place in the voting.
Submitter of the video will receive a Flip Camcorder
All submitters will receive an FQHC pin with the new FQHC logo to show their support for access to
quality, patient-centered medical homes for all.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONTEST WINNERS:
All winners will be notified and announced during the 2011 NACHC Community Health Institute
conference with spotlight postings of the videos on Facebook and other NACHC social media outlets
(YouTube, NHCW website, the NACHC blog, Twitter).
Celebrate National Health Center Week 2011!
Submit Your Health Center Advocate Video Today!
