Download submitted comments to the Administration on Children and Families concerning the redesign of requirements for Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (a comprehensive automated case management tool that supports social workers' foster care and adoptions assistance case management practice).
Innovation at Work
Research - Community Projects - Advocacy
Children's Health Care/Health Reform
- The Children's Partnership Joins Coalition at Press Event to Urge for Action on Medi-Cal Expansion
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
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
- 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.
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
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 ...
- Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual ExchangeDownload 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
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 ...
- Jenny Kattlove Advocates for Alternatives to Increase Access to Oral Care for California's Children.
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 ...
Foster Care Coordination
- Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth
California Child Welfare Council
Data ...Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster YouthThe 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 ...
Internet and 21st Century Skills
- Wendy Lazarus on Social Gaming and Child Poverty
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
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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