Results List
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KidsWell Campaign Launches Website and Online Resource Hub for Health Reform Implementation
New York, June 29, 2011. KidsWell, a campaign dedicated to the successful implementation of federal health reform for America’s children, launched www.KidsWellCampaign.org, a website monitoring state and national health care reform implementation and opposition across the country. Drawing on a growing repository of more than…
Author: Kidswell
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Foundations Giving Voice to the Voiceless
By Kimberley Chin, Programme Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies Sound policy can only be effective if it represents the experiences and voices of the people it is trying to benefit. The theme for the Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual meeting this year, The Power of Voice,…
Author: Grantmakers In Health
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New Grassroots Initiative Seeks to End Trend of Texas As Last for Children’s Health Care
AUSTIN – For over a decade now, Texas has been the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsured children, but today a grassroots start-up is launching with the promise to end the trend by instead “building a legacy of healthy children.” With legislators weighing…
Author: Texas Care for Children
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Getting Every Kid Covered – Learning from Cities’ Enrollment Successes
By Ben Kerman, Head of Strategic Learning and Evaluation Each year in the first full week of April, we celebrate National Public Health Week, a week dedicated to improving the health of the country and protecting the well-being of our children and future generations. As…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Children’s Health Coverage: On the Road to 100 Percent?
By Ben Kerman, The Atlantic Philanthropies The 2015 open enrollment period offers an opportunity to build on tremendous progress in bringing health coverage to more children and their families. An analysis of recent census data by Georgetown Center on Children and Families confirms that many…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
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What We’ve Learned: Helping Remaining Uninsured Obtain Health Coverage
By Benjamin Kerman and Annmarie Benedict, The Atlantic Philanthropies It’s been almost three years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into full effect. During that time, 13 million people gained health insurance coverage. With open enrollment starting tomorrow, communities have another opportunity to extend…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
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Taking It to the Streets: New Ways to Get Uninsured Kids Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP
By Sheila Hoag, Senior Researcher, and Debra Lipson, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research Traditionally, state and local Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) staff have conducted outreach to uninsured children eligible to help enroll them into these public coverage options. Advocates have also organized public education…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
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Video Advocacy - It's Easier than it Looks
By Adam Searing, North Carolina Justice Center Recently my colleague Adam Linker and I had the opportunity from our friends here at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Atlantic Philanthropies to leave the North Carolina Justice Center and travel to other state capitols around the country.…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
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