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In 1993, The Children’s Partnership set out to help invent a future where all children would have access to all the health care they need, and wouldn’t have to go to an emergency room to treat a simple ear infection; where the vast benefits of the Internet and computing devices would reach even the most disadvantaged child; and where parents, regardless of education or income, could learn to guide their children productively and safely on the Internet. Below is a sample of our recent work:

 

Children's Health Care/Health Reform

  • Kathleen Hamilton Recounts the First Phase of the Healthy Families Transition
    on May 16, 2013

    American Academy of Pediatrics California, Chapter 2, Pediatric News

    Kathleen Hamilton, Director of Sacramento Governemental Affairs, recounts the status of the Healthy Families Program transition after the ...

  • Children's Health Advocates Respond to Governor Brown's 2013-14 Budget May Revision
    on May 14, 2013

    Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President of The Children's Partnership, releases a statement on behalf of a coalition of leading children's health advocates in California. Despite ...

Health IT

Family-Friendly Enrollment

  • ACA Enrollment & Foster Youth
    on May 20, 2013

    ACA Enrollment & Foster Youth Update May 2013  (pdf)

    The ACA protects patients and will bring health care coverage to millions of currently uninsured people. In honor of National Foster Care Month, we focus on the benefits for one particular underserved population: foster youth. Our recent ...

  • 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 ...

Dental Health

  • TCP Supports Tax Credit for Stand-Alone Dental Benefits
    on May 09, 2013

    The Children's Partnership signs on with the Children's Dental Health Project and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families to urge the Department of ...

  • 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 ...

Foster Care Coordination

  • ACA Enrollment & Foster Youth
    on May 20, 2013

    ACA Enrollment & Foster Youth Update May 2013  (pdf)

    The ACA protects patients and will bring health care coverage to millions of ...

  • States and the Future of Health Coverage for Foster Youth
    on May 17, 2013

    Huffington Post Blog

    One of the most popular aspects of the Affordable Care Act is that young adults have been able ...

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 ...

  • 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.