is a health collaborative network focused on meeting the diverse health needs of our rural community by:

	Increasing access to health care in our community through outreach programs, health education and social marketing;
	Providing a voice for our community by influencing local, state and national rural health policy development;
	Engaging our local communities and stakeholders.

COMMUNITY HEALTH COLLABORATIVES

Health Matters, Central Oregon, including Jefferson, Deschutes and Crook County

100% Access, Lane County   

Coalition of Community Health Clinics, Portland (Multnomah), OR 

Jefferson Regional Health Alliance, Josephine and Jackson County

Project Access Now, Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington and Clark County

Klamath County Healthcare Access Committee, Klamath County

Counties Served:
Wallowa, Union, and Baker

Collaborative Incorporated:
Northeast Oregon Network (NEON) has recently incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit organization, as of April, 2009.

Overview and Structure:
NEON was originally led by a small group of individuals who recognized the value of community collaboration to ensure that needed and quality health services are provided efficiently and effectively. NEON is an entirely rural and frontier collaboration, led in large part by public health and human service organizations.  Since its inception, NEON has broadened its participation to include diverse stakeholders from throughout the three counties. NEON has an official board to direct the organization. Originally, NEON was not centered on direct provision of services but is now the home of Covering Kids and Families, an outreach and enrollment program that was originally funded through a Robert Wood Johnson grant and assists individuals throughout the three Counties. In addition, NEON remains committed to integration and coordination of the delivery system. NEON also actively provides education and opportunities for citizen involvement around larger health reform discussions in Oregon.

Mission:
To create a network focused on meeting the diverse health needs of rural communities. It is this Organization’s mission to strengthen the rural healthcare system in Wallowa, Union and Baker counties by:

1. Increasing access to integrated health care, including public health, mental health, oral health, health promotion, primary care services, prescription assistance, and primary care homes in our community. 
    
2. Providing a voice for our community in strategic health policy decisions and health care system reforms.
    
3. Sustaining a community-engaged and integrated health network.

Values and Principles
NEON is an organization driven by an evolving vision with strong or fundamental values and principles. Values and principles guide the work of NEON, both internally and externally. These values and principles include:

1. Inclusion and participation: we seek to engage the community in design and implementation of products and services.
    
2. Leverage: we seek to leverage and integrate community expertise and resources to further our mission.
    
   
3. Sustainability: we seek to create long-term organizational stability and continuity through sound business practices that are flexible to the changing environment. 
    
4. Local development: we seek to support local economic development and lessen the “brain drain” from the rural areas by providing professional career opportunities in our rural area, by hiring staff and contractors locally, whenever possible, and purchasing equipment and services locally.
    
5. Local control: we strive for as much local control/decision making as possible, which includes maximizing local funding as much as possible.
    
6. Holistic health: our vision of quality health care includes wellness and alternative care, affordable and available to all. We have a bias towards prevention/early intervention.
    
7. Enhancement of existing services: we seek to be a program that enhances, not duplicates, existing services. 

Goals and Objectives that NEON has targeted:
*Access to Healthcare
*Oral Health
*Enrollment into Existing Plans
*Removing Transportation Barriers
*Affordable Medications/Pharmacy
*Advocacy for Our Rural and Frontier Communities

Measure of performance that our collaborative achieved that impacts that target population:
Covering Kids and Families Eastern Oregon is able to provide enrollment/outreach services to approximately 50 families per month. The outreach and Enrollment Specialists succeed with this through their mobility to clients and community engagement.