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Children's Health
All children should have the health care they need to grow and learn. Access to quality, affordable care helps our children develop into healthy, productive, and happy adults. Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), our public children’s health care programs, have been enormously successful in providing quality care to millions of children. Community Catalyst believes that we should continue these programs and do even more to get children health care. We build coalitions with community leaders, educators, pediatricians, hospitals, and businesses to improve children’s health at the state and national levels.
- May 14, 2013 Economic Viability of Dental Therapists This report assesses the economic viability of services provided by practicing midlevel dental providers in the U.S. and shows that they are expanding preventive dental care to people who need it most: children and those who can't afford care.
- May 14, 2013 Infographic: Dental Therapists Are A Smart Investment Dental therapists are increasing access to oral health care especially for those who need it most: low-income families, people of color, people living in rural areas, and those on Medicaid.
- November 30, 2012 Health Homes: Rhode Island’s Development of a Pediatric Health Home Model This paper details the development of Rhode Island's pediatric health home program, which provides coordinated, community-based services to children and youth with special health care needs.
- October 01, 2012 The Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003: The Law's Provisions and Opportunities for Advocacy This two-page document provides a short summary of the key provisions of the Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003 and presents the opportunities for advocacy related to this law. Additional information can be found in the accompanying policy brief.
- October 01, 2012 The Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003: The Law's Provisions and Opportunities for Advocacy Policy Brief This policy brief outlines the implications of The Sickle Cell Treatment Act (SCTA). The brief discusses provisions, benefits and opportunities for advocacy at the state level for improved care and outcomes for those living with sickle cell disease.
- September 27, 2012 The Case for Protecting Medicaid Medicaid, a program that is more efficient than private insurance, is the wrong place to look for ways to reduce the federal deficit. Cutting the program would not only jeopardize the health of children, seniors and people with disabilities, it would harm state economies that are buoyed by federal Medicaid dollars.
- July 09, 2012 Child Welfare and the Affordable Care Act: Key Provisions for Foster Care Children and Youth This paper from Community Catalyst and Georgetown Center for Children and Families explores foster and deep end youth issues in the Affordable Care Act, detailing provisions which will benefit system involved children and what states need to do next.
- January 26, 2012 The 2012 Farm Bill: An Opportunity to Address Childhood Obesity The federal farm bill contains funding and authorization for a number of nutrition related programs that impact child health and obesity this paper details the ways in which NEACH would like to see the bill develop to combat childhood obesity.
- August 22, 2011 Childhood Obesity Policy Agenda NEACH is confident that there is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on child health quality through addressing the childhood obesity epidemic with proactive policy change.
- July 29, 2011 Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program: Past Successes and Future Opportunities for Improvement This paper concisely outlines the past success of CHGME, illustrates why it is still needed, and offers ideas about how to improve the program while continuing the nation’s investment in it.
- February 01, 2011 Insuring New England's Children: An Advocacy Success Story Presents strategies that New England advocates used to successfully increase children’s health insurance coverage rates, expand Medicaid and CHIP eligibility levels, and improve children’s health care programs.
- February 01, 2011 Investing in Our Future: New England Business Leaders' Views on Children's Health Advocacy Findings from a series of six focus group discussions held in 2008 with New England business leaders about their perspectives on children’s health and their interest in public policies that could improve health outcomes for children.
- May 12, 2010 Overview of Children’s Provisions in National Health Reform A list of some of the key provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that affect children. This legislation will improve the health care system for children and families in a number of ways, including: expanding Medicaid to all children and families up to 133% FPL, maintaining the CHIP program through at least 2015, and simplifying and coordinating enrollment processes.
- January 04, 2010 NEACH Alert: Patient-Centered Medical Homes A summary of the patient-centered medical home model, with information on what medical homes are, how they help improve children's health, and which New England states are currently piloting medical home models.
- July 12, 2009 Pediatric Quality of Care Matrix and Menu A framework for thinking about pediatric quality from the point of view of the child and family. NEACH used the Matrix as a foundation for developing its ‘Menu’ of federal policy options to improve pediatric quality. The initiatives described in the Menu were identified through a review of existing research on pediatric quality and interviews with its state and national partners.
- July 12, 2009 Pediatric Quality of Care Toolkit A set of materials—including a fact sheet, sample op-eds and letters to the editor—that support advocates’ efforts to promote this pediatric quality of care.
- March 04, 2009 NEACH Alert: Overview of CHIPRA 2009 Provisions A summary of the provisions in the CHIP reauthorization bill, signed by President Obama in February 2009. This legislation included many enhancements to the CHIP program, such as giving states the flexibility to expand CHIP to any income level, providing federal funding to cover legally residing immigrant children and pregnant women with no five year waiting period, and allocating $100 million for outreach and enrollment activities.
- February 20, 2009 New England Alliance for Children's Health: One Page Summary An overview of NEACH, outlining its mission to provide quality, accessible health coverage to all children. This document also presents NEACH’s vision, values, and programatic goals.
- February 03, 2009 NEACH Alert: Children's Mental Health in Massachusetts A description of the 2008 Massachusetts law that encourages early identification of mental illness in children, ensures the treatment of children in the least restrictive, most appropriate setting possible, expands private insurance protections for families, and improves communication and collaboration among state agencies.
- December 19, 2008 Healthy Children: A Quality Investment - A Business Community Outreach Project A brief that describes NEACH’s work to engage the business community in children’s health care advocacy work. It explains why engaging business leaders in children’s health access and quality is so powerful and outlines NEACH’s goals and strategies for the project.
- November 12, 2008 Executive Summary - Almost There: Covering the Remaining Uninsured Children in Rhode Island A summary of the policy brief on health insurance coverage for Rhode Island’s children.
- October 30, 2008 Almost There: Covering the Remaining Uninsured Children in Rhode Island This policy brief examines some of the strengths and limitations of the major sources of health insurance coverage for children in Rhode Island. The brief identifies barriers that families face in terms of eligibility and affordability and offers recommendations on ways to keep children’s health a priority and insure all Rhode Island children with quality, affordable coverage.
- October 30, 2008 NEACH Alert: Rhode Island Global Medicaid Waiver An in-depth look at Rhode Island’s request for a Medicaid waiver that caps state and federal funding for the state’s entire Medicaid program.
- March 05, 2007 New England CHIP Poll Report This 2,400 person New England-wide public opinion poll found that New England voters not only support their CHIP programs, the vast majority favor expanding CHIP to cover all children in their state.