March 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The National Governor's Association conducted three issue seminars and two policy forums to highlight innovative approaches to dealing with the multitude of categorical programs related to children's health.
May 6, 2013
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Program Result Report
The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
National Program
To increase the number of eligible children and adults who benefit from federal and state health care coverage programs.
October 1, 2012
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Journal Article
Expansion of WIC foods was associated with small positive externalities on the food environment.
April 11, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.
April 11, 2012
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Program Result Report
Communities Creating Healthy Environments aims to curb childhood obesity in communities of color by using community organizing for social justice to advocate for policy changes color. Read this report on its progress.
December 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The 14-member Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care - appointed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) - examined the relationship between health insurance coverage and children's access to health care.
January 26, 2011
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Program Result Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Emergency Department Consistent Care Program was established under the Foundation's Access Initiative, which awarded grants to 18 sites participating in the Covering Kids & Families national program.
June 1, 2010
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Evaluation
The evaluation of Covering Kids & Families� (CKF) found that broad-based cooperation on policy and procedural change?among advocacy groups, providers, state Medicaid and CHIP officials and other stakeholders? can be achieved and that such cooperation can be fundamental to increasing insurance coverage among children.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result Report
One of the Covering Kids & Families strategies was to help grantees improve and simplify the administrative processes for determining eligibility, enrolling eligible children and families in Medicaid or CHIP and retaining them in coverage.