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Your Questions on the Essential Health Benefits Bulletin Answered
In every issue of Catalyst Center Quarterly, we tackle a current topic related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Below is a compilation of several questions that we’ve been asked by stakeholders regarding the Essential Health Benefits Bulletin issued by…
A Call to Action for Social Work: Minimizing Financial Hardship for Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Families face significant challenges in caring for their CSHCN. For many families, one of these challenges is the economic impact of inadequate health care coverage. Families must make hard choices about how to spend limited salaries and then make substantial sacrifices in other domains to ensure adequate care for their…
State Health Care Financing Strategies for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This resource offers a descriptive summary of programs developed to provide services children with intellectual and developmental disabilities need to maximize quality of life.
Disparities in Insurance Coverage among Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Social Workers Can Promote Social and Economic Justice
In this article, we first provide information about CSHCN, insurance status, and associated disparities. We then discuss practice and policy initiatives that social workers could pursue to reduce these disparities, including initiatives prompted by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Action aimed at ensuring access…
Webinar: What are the Pathways to Coverage and What Are Covered Services for Medicaid and CHIP?
This is the third webinar in a five-webinar series about the Catalyst Center’s technical assistance tool Public Insurance Programs and Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial on the Basics of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
New HRSA Funding Awarded to CMC CoIIN Project to Improve Care Delivery for Children with Medical Complexity
The CMC CoIIN project at the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) has received an $830,000 supplemental funding award from the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), allowing the project team to continue its innovation in care delivery for children with medical complexity (CMC)…
CISWH’s Meg Comeau Co-authors Research Recommendations to Improve Health Care Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
By definition, children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) require more health care services than children typically do to ensure their optimal health, quality of life and well-being. About 20% of children in the US have special health care needs, and their care comprises about…
New Assessment Tool Enhances Family Engagement in Healthcare Systems Change
A recent Pediatrics article by CISWH researchers identifies the Family Engagement in Systems Assessment Tool (FESAT) as a key tool for improving family partnership in healthcare systems changes. The article highlights how two state teams from the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) for Children with Medical…
CISWH Partner Amal Alliance Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Immigrant Children
The Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) recently collaborated with the Amal Alliance to design and perform an evaluation for Colors of Kindness, a mobile trauma-informed social-emotional learning program that helps asylum-seeking children in Massachusetts…
CISWH Partners with the Amal Alliance to Support Homeless Children
The Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work was featured in a recent news story for its partnership with the Amal Alliance. CISWH is the lead evaluator of Colori PlayspaceExpress, a trauma-informed mobile classroom that supports the emotional well-being…