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Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge
A live stream video event with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius along with Department
of Education
Secretary Arne Duncan will take place on September 3rd at 9:30 eastern. They will provide an important announcement on the status of children's health
coverage and moving forward
on
the Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge.
The video at the event will feature three states, including Iowa.
The
event will provide a forum for the release of new data from
the Urban
Institute, to be published in Health Affairs on Friday morning.
The report provides state-level information on children's
participation in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance
Program (CHIP)
and helps define the direction for future work. Secretary
Sebelius along with Secretary Duncan will recognize leading
national
organizations that have stepped up to the Connecting Kids to
Coverage Challenge
and will highlight several important contributions to outreach
and enrollment
efforts.
5 Ways to Step Up to the
Challenge
1. Cut red tape.Work to simplify
enrollment
and renewal and reduce paperwork that creates unnecessary barriers
to coverage
for eligible children.
2.Capitalize on technology.Enable
families to apply and check their eligibility online.
Explore ways to use the telephone, text-messaging
and other technology in outreach and enrollment. 3.Create opportunities to sign up. Reach out and help families
enroll their
children where they live, learn, play, work, worship, and go for
health care or
for help with other family needs. Strive to make enrollment
assistance an
ongoing and routine activity.
4.Focus on retention.Take steps
to help families
renew their child's coverage so that children stay covered for as
long as they
qualify.
Friday morning - Watch live-streaming of the Challenge event at this site: www.HHS.gov\live
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Greetings!
Can you believe that fall is just around the corner? I think I say this every year - where did the summer go?
Along with fall comes the election- we have been busy working on a website that we hope you will find useful when thinking about who to cast your vote for this coming election. You can find out more about itsaboutourkids.org below! Feel free to contact me after you have visited the website with any feedback you might have.
Best ~
Sheila
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"It's About Our Kids" Website Launches with Survey of Iowa Gubernatorial Candidates
Today, Every Child Counts launched itsaboutourkids.org to encourage Iowa voters to raise the visibility of children's issues in the 2010 campaign.
Two-thirds
of the Iowa budget is directed to ensuring the health, safety,
education and security of Iowa children and youth, but children's issues
receive nowhere near that level of attention during elections. How our children fare is critical to Iowa's vitality and economic
future. Voters need to know how candidates for office will address
critical child policy issues.
Available
on the site for the first time on Wednesday are the responses from Gov.
Chet Culver and former Gov. Terry Branstad to a survey developed by 22 Iowa organizations to document candidates' positions on children's
issues. The survey covers preschool and K-12 education, childhood
poverty, child safety, support for infants and toddlers, after-school
programs, and children's health and mental health.
We
are grateful to the candidates for responding to the survey and
providing their thoughtful comments. It shows their commitment to and
understanding of children's issues as a critical role of state
government. The "It's About Our Kids" website will post responses by the U.S. Senate candidates to a similar set of questions next week.
Visitors to itsaboutourkids.org will find:
· A Gubernatorial Voter's Guide that can be downloaded in whole or by individual question.
· Links to Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House websites and all
position statements candidates have posted on their websites on child
and family issues.
· Information about Iowa House and Senate candidates and links to the Republican and Democratic party platforms.
· Links to national and Iowa organizations that focus upon child policy
issues from a diversity of policy perspectives - including the Iowa
organizations that developed the survey.
· Information on how to register and to vote and how Iowans can take action to increase awareness of children's issues.
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The 2010 Kids Count Data Book
 According to data in the 21st annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, overall improvements
in child well-being that began in the late 1990s stalled in the years just before
the current economic downturn. Find national data and state-by-state data and
rankings on 10 key indicators of child well-being.
PDFs/Hard CopiesAccess profiles on the Kids Count Data Center for many Iowa locations; rankings, maps, or trend graphs
by topic; and raw data. Includes over 100 measures of child well-being,including the community-level data formerly in CLIKS.
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Do Effects of Early Child Care Extend to Age 15 Years? Results From the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
by Deborah Lowe Vandell, Jay Belsky, Margaret Burchinal,
Laurence Steinberg, Nathan Vandergrift, and the NICHD Early Child Care
Research Network (May 2010)
This report from the NICHD child care study found that, although the
effects were small, teenagers who had the higher quality care did
better academically than those given low-quality care or no care outside
the home.
The study appears in Child Development.
View the full report.
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