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South Texas: family and community pathways into care

Designed community-health participation around family influence, low-friction enrollment, relevant messaging, and links to health services.

Period
2009–2011 and subsequent scaling
Kevin’s role
Grant writer, protocol author, and program manager
South TexasHRSAOATcommunity healthpediatric obesityasthmafamily engagement30000low-friction enrollmentsocial determinantspatient activation

Program setting

Kevin’s CV identifies Mobile Community Health Networks for diabetes and asthma, supported by HRSA/Office for the Advancement of Telehealth grant H2AIT16625-02-02, from September 2009 through August 2011. He served as grant writer, protocol author, and program manager with Driscoll Children’s Health Plan.

Related career accounts describe Healthy Families of South Texas and a seven-county population-health effort. The work extended participation beyond an individual child to parents, extended family, and the local community.

Design responsibilities

Kevin designed an engagement model that could recruit broadly, profile participants, and connect them to condition-specific intensive messaging protocols and available services. The experience combined program strategy with the practical details of recruitment, communications, enrollment, local partnerships, and execution.

He treated community trust and ease of participation as operating requirements. A technically sophisticated website would not be sufficient if the population was more likely to respond through SMS, printed materials, or a familiar community pathway.

Channel and workflow choices

The wider Healthimo infrastructure supported mobile participation, prepaid paper surveys, device data, education, and laboratory information. These channels could bring participants into a shared data and engagement model without requiring identical technology habits.

The program’s value depended on what followed sign-up. Participant information needed to produce relevant education, encouragement, routing, or service connection. Broad engagement and intensive management therefore played different roles in the design.

Scale in the career record

Kevin’s CV describes a community growing to more than 30,000 members in under a year. The figure is a career-reported community reach/participation measure. It is not presented as a randomized study sample, an active medical caseload, or an independently audited retention measure.

The account supports experience with population-scale activation and program architecture. Claims of downstream medical cost reduction would require separate outcome evidence and are not inferred from the participation number.

Where the experience connects

The work is relevant to member activation, patient journeys, public-health engagement, community referral models, and products addressing health inequity. It demonstrates the ability to connect a broad participation strategy to concrete operating pathways and to adapt collection and communication methods to the people a program intends to reach.

Sources and record basis

The project account is based on Kevin’s CV, approved career statements, and supporting project materials. Related public research and professional work are available in the source index.