Innovations in Health Reform Updates - The Children's Partnership

Children Falling Through the Health Insurance Cracks: Early Observations and Promising Strategies for Keeping Low-Income Children Covered by Medi-Cal & Healthy Families

By Kristen Testa, Larissa Mohamadi, Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, Jayleen Richards, and Len Finocchio
January 2003

This report by The Children's Partnership and Children Now, as part of the 100% Campaign, offers promising strategies, including renewal through other public programs, for keeping California's low-income children covered by Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal and Healthy Families in California).

Download the report (PDF, 1 MB).

Terms:Dawn Horner, Health , Kristen Golden Testa, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Wendy Lazarus

Pathways to Our Future: A Multimedia Training Program for Youth That Works

By James Lau and Wendy Lazarus

This report summarizes how a pilot program demonstrating how to successfully train low-income youth with marketable skills in technology and multimedia production works and its accomplishments. It also features recommendations for how public and private sector leaders can extend the program’s benefits.

Download the report (PDF, 1.8 MB)

Terms:James Lau, Technology, Wendy Lazarus

Computers In Our Future: What Works in Closing the Technology Gap?

By Linda Fowells and Wendy Lazarus

This report describes a four-year $7.5 million demonstration program aimed at closing the technology gap in 11 low-income, diverse California communities. This report analyzes key components of this demonstration program, including lessons learned and implications for action.

Download the report (PDF, 24 MB).

Terms:Technology, Wendy Lazarus

Healthy Families: Health Insurance Through One Door

By Dawn Horner and Wendy Lazarus
March 2001

HealthyFamPic A report developed by The Children's Partnership as part of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children's Defense Fund. It provides recommendations for creating a unified health insurance program for California's children and their parents.