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Wendy Lazarus on Passage of Bill Saving Children's Health Coverage in California

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Sacramento Bee

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Wendy Lazarus on the Budget Shortfall in the Health Families Program

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Wendy Lazarus has been quoted in several media outlets commenting on the budget shortfall in the Healthy Families Program, California's version of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and efforts to fill the budget gap and restore health coverage to hundreds on thousands of children. 

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Wendy Lazarus Responds to California Freezing Enrollment for Children in California's Healthy Families Coverage Program

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Associated Press

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Wendy Lazarus on Proposition 1D

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California Healthline

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Wendy Lazarus Interviewed About Healthy Families Funding

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California Healthline

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Wendy Lazarus Interviewed about California Healthy Families Program Funding

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KPBS

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Wendy Lazarus on Healthy Families Receiving Last-Minute Temporary Funding

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Los Angeles Times

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Wendy Lazarus Interviewed on Efforts to Provide Health Coverage to All California Children

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KPBS

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Wendy Lazarus on Efforts to Provide Health Insurance to All California Children

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Sacramento Bee

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Wendy Lazarus Advocates Against Enrollment Freeze in California's Healthy Families Program

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California Healthline

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Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor on Uninsured Children in California

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Los Angeles Times

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Wendy Lazarus Estimates Dropped Health Insurance Enrollment Rates for California Children

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California Healthline

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Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor: Don't Hurt the Kids

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Merced Sun-Star

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Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor on Protecting Children's Health Insurance

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Mercury News

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Wendy Lazarus Calls Out Senate Panel for Step Backward in Health Insurance Coverage for California Kids

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Los Angeles Times

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Wendy Lazarus on Mixed Outlook for for Children's Health Coverage in California

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California Healthline

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Wendy Lazarus Letter to the Editor: Health Care Reform Must Not Fall Victim

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San Diego Union-Tribune

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Wendy Lazarus: Children Forgotten in Health Reform

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Sacramento Bee

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Bush Health Care Veto Leaves State in Bind

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Sacramento Bee

"These programs have always been viewed as transitional and they can't keep going without a solution," said Wendy Lazarus, co-president of the Children's Partnership, an advocacy group. "Unless something is done, we're going to slide backward." 

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Democrats Push Child Health Care: Uninsured Kids Are Latest Focus, Though Assembly Is to Vote Today on Overall Package from Governor

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Sacramento Bee

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Children's Health Effort in Peril

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Sacramento Bee

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Possible Presidential Veto Puts Health Care Coverage for Children in Jeopardy

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La Opinión 

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Helping Our Children With Disabilities Succeed: What's Broadband Got To Do With It?

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By Jessica Rothschuh and April KirkHart with Wendy Lazarus | July 2007

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Helping Our Children Succeed: What's Broadband Got To Do With It?

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By April KirkHart and James Lau with Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper | March 2007

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In California, Big Plans to Expand Health Coverage

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The Christian Science Monitor

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Children's Health Care/Health Reform

  • The Children's Partnership Joins Coalition at Press Event to Urge for Action on Medi-Cal Expansion
    on April 11, 2013

    Santa Monica, CA - Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President, joins a broad coalition of health care officials and advocates for a press event in Los Angeles ...

  • Wendy Lazarus on Children and the ACA, A High-Stakes Recipe for Success
    on April 10, 2013

    Huffington Post Blog

    Wendy Lazarus outlines the main "ingredients" for succes that matter the most for kids under the ACA.  "Our collective job over the months ...

Health IT

  • Comments on RFI on Accelerating Interoperability and Information Exchange Across the Care Continuum
    on April 22, 2013
    The Children's Partnership joins a list of twenty-one organizations on this sign-on letter from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth and the Campaign from Better Care, responding to the HHS Request for Information (RFI) on advancing interoperability and health information exchange.
  • Beth Morrow Joins Consumer Empowerment Workgroup
    on April 05, 2013

    The Children's Partnership is pleased to announe that Beth Morrow, Director of Health IT Initiatives, is joining the  Consumer Empowerment Workgroup (CEWG) of the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC). The newly formed Consumer Empowerment Workgroup’s charge is to provide recommendations on policy issues and opportunities for strengthening the ability of consumers, ...

Family-Friendly Enrollment

  • Interviews with Innovators from Oklahoma
    on April 22, 2013

    Innovations in Health Reform Update April 2013  (pdf)

    When it comes to innovators in health reform, Oklahoma deserves special recognition for taking steps to put an online real-time eligibility and enrollment system into place even before the ACA passed. In 2007, Oklahoma began planning for a first-class paperless ...

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  • Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual Exchange
    on April 03, 2013
    Download submitted comments from The Children's Partnership and our consumer advocate partners regarding the Exchange's March 21, 2013 proposed eligibility and enrollment regulations for the Individual Exchange (Covered California). 

Dental Health

  • Virtual Dental Home Educational Event
    on May 08, 2013

    Come Learn About an Innovative Model to Bring Dental Care to Children in Preschool Settings

    The Virtual Dental Home creates a community-based oral health delivery system in ...

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  • Jenny Kattlove Advocates for Alternatives to Increase Access to Oral Care for California's Children.
    on May 01, 2013

    California Health Report

    Concern over accessibility to dental care for children on Medi-Cal brings to surface the need for alternative solutions to increase access. "One of ...

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Foster Care Coordination

  • Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
    on March 06, 2013

    Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth 

    California Child Welfare Council
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  • Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster Youth
    on February 20, 2013

    The Children's Partnership joined the Children's Defense Fund and other child advocacy organizations on a letter to HHS on a new health care law requirement ...

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Internet and 21st Century Skills

  • Wendy Lazarus on Social Gaming and Child Poverty
    on September 27, 2012

    Huffington Post

    As gaming becomes more social, it is expanding into parts of society once seen as untouched by video games. The largest of these groups is women, who make up 55 percent of social gamers on average. Women are also more likely than men to make charitable contributions, care about ...

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  • TCP Gaming Paper Encourages Gaming Industry Towards Philanthropy
    on September 26, 2012

    The Washington Post

    An article highlighting the VirtuallyGood4Kids (VG4K) inititative encouraging  the gaming "industry to provide parents and their kids with more opportunities to direct the money they spend on virtual purchases toward fundraising causes."

    Learn more about VirtuallyGood4Kids.

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