Kathleen Hamilton

Collaborating with Students and Schools to Maximize Health Insurance Coverage 

Vision & Voice for Healthy Students 
March 14-15, 2013 
Westin Hotel in Long Beach.

The Affordable Care Act will allow millions more Californians to get health insurance coverage. Both students and schools can play a role in maximizing this opportunity. Learn about new health insurance options, how and when families can apply for coverage, and what schools can do to help. 

Speakers include:

Kathleen Hamilton, Director, Sacramento Government Affairs, The Children’s Partnership 
Jenny Kattlove, MS, Director, Strategic Health Initiatives, The Children’s Partnership 

You can register here.

March 13-15, 2013
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
San Francisco, CA

Between the Great Recession, the volatile policy arena, the 2012 elections, and the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, the new normal for grantmakers may be working under conditions of ongoing dynamic change. The 2013 GIH annual meeting Big Ideas to Blueprints: Decisive Grantmaking in Dynamic Times will be a time to focus on how foundations, their grantees, and other partners can thrive in these changing times.

Network Breakfasts featuring TCP staff
Thursday, March 14th, 8am

Kids' Access (featuring Kathleen Hamilton, The Children's Partnership, and Suzie Shupe, California Coverage and Health Initiatives)
Oral Health (featuring Shelley Gehshan, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Jenny Kattlove, The Children's Partnership)

California Watch

As 870,000 children are moved from the Healthy Families Program to Medi-Cal beginning January 1, 2013, children's advocates express concern about children having access to care. "Our worry is that there seems to be an intention to proceed with these transitions without that certainty that the doctors will be there to meet all these kids," said Kathleen Hamilton, director of governmental affairs with the Children's Partnership.

Download the full article. (PDF)

Children's Health in Los Angeles 2nd Annual Symposium

Friday, November 9, 2012, 9:30am-1:00pm 

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Stauffer Conference Room 
4661 Sunset Boulevard 
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Registration is FREE of charge. Lunch is provided. 

RSVP: Kelly Clancy at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or (323) 361-5742 

Kathleen Hamilton, Director, Sacramento Governmental Affairs joins this panel to discuss information on the HFP transition to Medi-Cal

Download TCP's submitted comments  to the California Health Benefit Exchange on Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), regarding employee/employer plan choice and navigators.

Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton, Director of Governmental Affairs, explains  how kids are affected by SHOP. 

Sacramento Bee

Affordable Care Act already helps millions of children

New America Media

California at Forefront of Implementing Affordable Care Act

 Read the full press statement.

By Kathleen Hamilton

This paper provides recommendations to the California Health Benefit Exchange Board (HBEX) as it proceeds with the implementation of the SHOP program for small employers. These recommendations are aimed at ensuring that families covered through SHOP have access to and understand the best affordable care available for children. As a participant of the CA HBEX Board's Stakeholder SHOP Work Group, The Children's Partnership sees the SHOP as a critical piece of the children's coverage matrix and has identified key issues around incorporating the SHOP Program into the IT system design. Further, SHOP is critical to ensuring that all possible avenues of providing health coverage for children are maximized.

Download the paper.

Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs about the progress of CA Health Exchange. 

The California Health Benefit Exchange launched its stakeholder engagement process. Two separate workgroups were established to address eligibility and enrollment process issues specific to both the individual and small employer markets. 

Read more about the stakeholder workgroups . 

Say Ahhh! A Children Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs  an the CA HBEX.

Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs on the Health Exchange Board's aggressive agenda and meeting schedule for 2011.