Awareness+Activities



====**Magnets, posters, press releases, games, pens, calendars, Web sites, window clings, contests, emails, videos, wheels of fortune, table tents, twitter accounts, newsletters, even mascots – **==== ====They are all tools in pursuit of the same elusive goal - awareness – of the compliance program’s existence, of the “Code”, of the organization’s commitment to Compliance, Ethics or both. ====

====Whether they work and to what degree is probably less a factor of what tool the Compliance Officer chooses than how well and how frequently he or she deploys it. As so often, there’s much to be learned from the awareness activities of others, so here are some examples. ==== = = = = = = =//Poster //s /// Cards / Brochures / Badges// =

> =//Puzzles, Games, Contests, etc. //=
 * ====The US Office of Government Ethics has developed a series of memorable downloadable posters on various issues. ====
 * ====The State of Connecticut makes its ethics posters available online. ====
 * ====The Compliance program at one NY medical center has an online form for its clients to order posters, tables tents and "badge buddies" about compliance and HIPAA. ====
 * ====Hotline posters / flyers: to highlight its Hotline Pepsico makes its "Speak Up" poster downloadable, as does the University of Nebraska Medical Center its Reporting poster and St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital its “Compliance Awareness” poster. ====
 * ====Here's the brochure for Northrop Grumman's "Openline" ====
 * ====Eisai Co. Ltd. distributes cards with resource information and a three question "Compliance Test" for self-examination. ====
 * ====Flowserve staged an internal ad "campaign" about ethics and integrity ====
 * ====Jesse Trice Community Health Center made its poster available in Spanish, Creole and English ====
 * ====Mitsubishi Electric uses posters and brochures to ensure "Employees Are Aware of Our Compliance Policy" ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Penn State created a downloadable poster to highlight its Ethics and Compliance Hotline ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Smokey Mountain Center has a downloadable Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Hotline Poster ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SOFTBANK group's awareness strategy includes a variety of posters with slogans suggested by group officers and employees. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Southern Illinois University used a poster to advertise its mandatory online ethics training in 2011. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SUNY Downstate Medical Center has both a brochure and a poster about its Compliance Line "available to everyone" ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The University of Georgia has a poster describing its Ethics and Compliance Reporting System ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The University of Michigan Compliance office has "badges" that other University websites can embed to publicize the Compliance effort as well as a downloadable poster. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">UT Compliance Services at Austin emphasizes reporting "wrongdoing" with its poster. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">UT at Brownsville uses a poster to remind its community to "Speak Up" ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Western Illinois University has a Compliance and Privacy Awareness Webpage because "the world is not a problem: the problem is your unawareness." ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance word scrambles (free!) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A compliance word search (also free!) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Take a compliance quiz - maybe win a coffee mug ! ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The University of Florida Information Security and Compliance team conducted video and poster contests. (2013) ====
 * =====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Milwaukee County Ethics Board asked employees to spot where Officer Jim crossed the line =====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Penn State Office of Research Protection (ORP) has a an awareness crossword puzzle ====
 * ====​<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Try the Blue Shield of CA “Fraud Quiz” ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ethics puzzles (2008) [US Office of Government Ethics - no longer available on the agency website] ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Ethics Fortuneteller from the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scruples, the Board Game ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">RAI had a 2012 "Crack the Code" Contest ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">El Paso Corporation held an Ethics Calendar Contest (video 2010) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Milwaukee County Ethics Board used a logic puzzle as part of its Corporate Compliance and Ethics Weeks Celebration (2012) and also had Ethics Scramlets. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The ADA isponsored a video contest for entries that portrayed at least one of its Ethical principles or part of its Code of Professional Conduct (2014) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cornell had an Ethics Case Competition for its business students (2014) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Texas Tech's fourth year of its Ethics Storytelling Photo Contest (2014) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Loma Linda University Health had a contest to reward early completion of its annual compliance training (2015) ====

=//Newsletters//=

= = =//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mascots //=
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ABCs About Billing and Compliance Newsletter (UC San Diego) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Athletics Compliance Newsletter for boosters (Villanova) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance Compass Newsletter (Vanderbilt) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance Connection (SUNY Downstate Medical Center) ====
 * ==== Compliance Counts (UMDNJ) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance Corner (UCSF) ====
 * ==== Compliance Courier (U of Conn) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance and Ethics News ((Morehouse) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance Newsletter (E Virginia Medical School) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Touchstone Health Compliance Newsletter ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Compliance Newsletter for Student Athletes (U Florida) ====
 * ==== Compliance Now (California Primary Care Association) ====
 * ==== Comply With Us (Children's Hospital) ====
 * ==== Ethics Express was published by the US Department of the Interior ====
 * ==== Ethics Matters is published by Atlanta's Ethics Department ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Government Programs Compliance Officer Newsletter (HCSC) ====
 * ==== Healthcare Compliance Newsletter (USC) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">HIPAA Advisory (Purdue) ====
 * ==== Integrated Ethics in Action (IEIA) is a publication of the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care ====
 * ====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Integrity Insights (Catholic Healthcare West) ====
 * ==== The Indiana Compliance Newsletter goes back to 1996 and recently became "Compliance Corner" (IU) ====
 * ==== The State of New Jersey's State Ethics Commission also has published a newsletter ====
 * ==== Privacy Beat (UCSF) ====
 * ==== Safety Lines (MN OSHA) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rite Aid uses Herb to describe the "Rite" things to do <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Goodyear AZ has Cowboy Codey ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:compliance-toolbox/The_Enforcer.jpg align="right" caption="The Enforcer"]]

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">San Antonio’s Code Compliance folks have "The Enforcer " (pictured here) ; he and his sidekick "Code-E" also starred in an activity book for children. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The University of Arkansas for Medical Services HIPAA office has Harley - a HIPPO with a nice fashion sense. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The University of California at Riverside has the Compliance Bear (video) ====

= = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**//Other Awareness Resources on the Web//:** =


 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"How To" tips on using posters ====
 * ===="**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Where to Start When Building and Awareness Program" **====

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