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09-3 "Community Superstars" Summary i SI-IIPs across the country have discovered that we have to dig deeper to locate Low- Income Subsidy (LIS) eligible beneficiaries. Many LIS eligible don't frequent the normal sites in which we provide outreach such as senior centers, churches and nutrition sites. In fact, many beneficiaries don't belong to any organized group whatsoever. The "Community Superstars" effort is a unique way to dig deeper into the beneficiary population and cover our bases by providing information and outreach to the beneficiaries who don't come to us for help, the ones who slip through the cracks. The workshop we are asking SI111P Coordinators to MITY out in each county demonstrates a fun and innovative way to locate the hard-to-find LIS eligible in your area by creating a steering committee of "Community Superstars." Discover the people in your community who are the trusted pipeline of information to diverse groups of low- income beneficiaries. Develop new partnerships in previously unreachable demographics in your cormmunity and deliver benefit information in creative new ways. A PowerPoint presentation on this project is located on www.neshiip.com. (Go to the last tab on the left of the home page, Into for Current S1-11IP Coordinators, log in and you will find the information.) The presentation will demonstrate how to locate the Superstars in your community, how to form a working partnership with them, and provide proven tools that your Superstars can use to assist you in locating diverse groups of LIS eligible. At the same time,, you will open new lines of communication to hard-to- reach demographics, enable new lines of communication for future projects, and create positive goodwill in your community. In addition, there will be a session on "Community Superstars" at the Annual SI-11111 Coordinators' Conference in August. • Page 8 of 8