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The National Research Council/Institute of Medicine’s Adolescent Health Services: Highlights and Considerations for State Health Policymakers
In May 2006, the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine’s (NRC/IOM’s) Board on Children, Youth and Families (BCYF) convened the Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development. With funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the committee conducted a study of health services for adolescents ages 10-19 in the United States and issued a report, Adolescent Health Services: Missing Opportunities. The National Academy for State Health Policy has written this paper based upon that report to highlight aspects of the publication most relevant for and applicable to state policymakers, who play an important role in improving adolescent health.September 2009 -
A Multi-Agency Approach to Using Medicaid to Meet the Health Needs of Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth
Juvenile justice, mental health, and Medicaid agencies have a common interest in meeting the health needs of youth in the juvenile justice system. However, these three agencies have different, yet overlapping, program objectives, funding sources, target populations, and partners. This situation creates both barriers and opportunities in using these agencies’ resources to meet the health and behavioral health needs of children involved with the juvenile justice system. Improving coordination among state agencies overseeing the juvenile justice, mental health, and Medicaid systems is crucial to improving access to quality health services for juvenile justice-involved youth. Some states are developing mechanisms to plan and implement more coordinated and integrated health services for juvenile justice-involved youth.December 2008 -
Models for Change Fact Sheet Series: An Overview of Pennsylvania's Publicly Funded Insurance Programs
This summary is intended to assist professionals who work in systems serving children, such as juvenile justice and child welfare. For more information about Medicaid and its key concepts as they relate to the juvenile justice system, see A Medicaid Primer for Juvenile Justice Officials.August 2008 -
Models for Change Fact Sheet Series: An Overview of Illinois Medicaid and SCHIP Programs
This summary is intended to assist professionals who work in systems serving children, such as juvenile justice and child welfare. For more information about Medicaid and its key concepts as they relate to the juvenile justice system, see A Medicaid Primer for Juvenile Justice Officials. Illinois integrates operation of its State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) with Medicaid funded and state-only programs. As of December 2006, there were 1,873,000 adults and children enrolled in the Medicaid program, and as of June 2007 there were 175,145 children enrolled in SCHIP. In federal fiscal year 2005, Illinois made approximately $10.8 billion in Medicaid expenditures and $494 million in SCHIP expenditures. (These figures include spending for both adults and children.) The federal government supplied 50 percent of the funding for Medicaid expenditures and 65 percent for SCHIP expenditures.August 2008 -
Models for Change Fact Sheet Series: An Overview of Louisiana's Medicaid and SCHIP Programs
This summary is intended to assist professionals who work in systems serving children, such as juvenile justice and child welfare. For more information about Medicaid and its key concepts as they relate to the juvenile justice system, see A Medicaid Primer for Juvenile Justice Officials. As of January 2008, 1,007,188 adults and children were covered under Louisiana’s Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Louisiana operates its SCHIP program as an expansion of Medicaid. There were 891,451 people enrolled in the Medicaid program and 115,737 children enrolled in SCHIP. In federal fiscal year 2005, approximately $5.3 billion was spent for Medicaid services in Louisiana, and an additional $126 million was spent for SCHIP services. (These figures include spending for both adults and children.) The federal government supplied 71 percent of the funding for Medicaid and 80 percent of the funding for SCHIP.August 2008 -
SCHIP and Adolescents: An Overview and Opportunities for States
Over the past decade, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has made great strides in increasing health care coverage among youth under age 19. However, this overall success masks an important disparity – adolescents are more likely to be uninsured than younger children. As state policy makers and program administrators seek to build on their successes to reach more of those eligible for SCHIP, special attention should be paid to adolescents. SCHIP coverage can not only improve teens’ health, but can reduce the burdens of chronic disease in adulthood.May 2008 -
State Efforts to Extend Dependent Coverage for Young Adults
This State Health Policy Monitor gives an overview of the key features of state laws designed to expand dependent coverage options for young adults. Policy makers are becoming aware that young adults are the fastest growing group of uninsured in America. In fact, they are more likely to be uninsured than any other age group. Nearly one-third (30 percent) of young adults ages 19-29 are uninsured. From 2004 to 2005, the number of uninsured adults ages 19-29 increased from 12.9 million to 13.3 million – an increase that accounted for 30 percent of the growth in the number of uninsured Americans under the age of 65 during this period.December 2007 -
Building Better Systems for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Highlights from a meeting convened by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
This paper summarizes the results of a meeting convened as a means of engaging state, federal, provider, and consumer experts from the child mental health and maternal child health fields in a conversation about how to develop stronger collaborative approaches to improve systems for child and adolescent mental health. The meeting was based on the premise that meeting child and adolescent mental health needs requires a continuum of services. This continuum includes promotion of social and emotional health and development, as well as prevention, early intervention, and care for mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents. While the discussion broadly considered the continuum of services for child and adolescent mental health, it had a strong focus on the promotion and prevention end of the continuum.January 2007 -
Seven Steps Toward State Success in Covering Children Continuously
In March 2006, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) convened a small invitational symposium on child health coverage. This brief summarizes key suggestions which emerged during the symposium discussion about lessons learned over the past decade of state efforts to increase rates of child health coverage. Participants in the symposium reviewed and discussed recent progress and remaining barriers for states in reducing numbers of uninsured children and youth. Participants also generated and discussed ideas about restructuring child health coverage to move closer to a goal of covering all children and youth continuously.October 2006 -
State Approaches to Promoting Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development: A Survey of Medicaid, Maternal and Child Health, and Mental Health Agencies
This report examines how states are addressing the healthy mental development of children ages birth to 3 and is based on a survey of Medicaid, maternal and child health, and children’s mental health agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report addresses critical issues confronting states, common approaches to addressing them, and promising new initiatives that states have undertaken to improve systems of care for young children’s social/emotional development.November 2005
