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Fact Sheet: Medicaid and Children with Special Health Care Needs/Disabilities: An Overview.
This fact sheet provides an overview of Medicaid eligibility and benefits for children with special health care needs and disabilities.
Fact Sheet: The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Children with Special Health Care Needs—An Overview.
This fact sheet provides information about the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility and benefits for CSHCN.
Infographic: Medicaid & CHIP: What’s the Difference?
This infographic explains the important differences between Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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).
Dr. Margaret Lombe Joins BUSSW as Associate Professor of Social Work & Global Health Equity
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) has appointed Dr. Margaret Lombe to its faculty as associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Dr. Lombe will be the school’s first professor of social work and global health equity, a newly created position within the macro practice department. “I am…
Boston Globe: Prof. Hahm’s Report Shows Impact of Covid-Related Anti-Asian Racism on Mental Health
A Boston Globe article on the impact of Covid-related anti-Asian racism on mental health cites Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm’s research among three new studies indicating that Asian Americans are grappling with high rates of psychological distress. Excerpted from “Asian Americans who experienced COVID-related racism…