31 December 2000 1. SSA Promotes Children's' Health Insurance Hotline 2. Article Spotlights New Orleans Peer-to-Peer Outreach Program 3. New Presidential Immunization Initiative Launched 4. New Toolkit on CHIP and Medicaid Outreach 16 December 2000 1. West Virginia Family Courts to Provide Information about Children's Health Insurance 2. Maximizing Medicaid Funding to Support Health and Mental Health Services for School-Age Children and Youth 3. Uninsured: Conference Addresses Several Proposals 4. School Nurses Play Important Role in Reducing Number of Uninsured Students in Massachusetts 2 December 2000 1. Announcements 2. California's Web Site on Children's Health Insurance 3. New Ground for New Health Care Proposal 4. Putting Express Lane Eligibility Into Practice 16 November 2000 1. Announcements 2. A Profile of Low-Income Working Families 3. Marketing Medicaid and State CHIP: A Study of State Advertising Campaigns 4. Reforming Welfare Reform 5. HandsNet White Paper on Helping Working Families 6. Making It Simple: Medicaid for Children and CHIP Income Eligibility Guidelines and Enrollment Procedures 7. Medicaid Enrollment in 50 States 8. Employer Health Benefits 2000 Annual Survey 9. States Spending on the Rise Three Years into CHIP 31 October 2000 1. Announcements 2. States to Cover Teens Eligible for Medicaid, CHIP 3. Get the Fall Edition of "Sign Them Up" 4. Children Eligible for Medicaid but Not Enrolled: How Great a Policy Concern? 5. Pediatricians Take a Position on Mental Health Coverage 13 October 2000 1. Health Insurance Coverage Improves 2. Congress May Extend Deadline to Spend Funds 3. Income Up and Poverty Down But Children Still at the Bottom 4. New Report Urges Reevaluation of State CHIP 5. Two State Profiles of Pilot Programs to Increase Enrollment in CHIP 6 October 2000 1. Announcements 2. Children in the States Data 3. New Clearinghouse on Children and Families Launched 4. Child Care Strategies: Strategies to Provide Outreach to Eligible Families 5. New Publication Features Real-Life Stories of Uninsured Families 21 September 2000 1. Neighborhood Walkers and Talkers Sign Up New Orleans Families 2. WIC: a Door to Health Care 3. LEP and Medicaid and State CHIP 4. Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Parents Reduces Number of Uninsured Children 5. States Don't Monitor Care of Children on Medicaid 25 August 2000 1. HRSA Launches New Project on Community Health Status Indicators 2. Nations Health Corporation Web Site 3. Covering Kids Launches National Back-to-School Campaign 4. New Study Calls for Improvement in Maternal and Child Health Services 16 August 2000 1. California's Electronic Application is Live! 2. Reallocation of Unused CHIP Funds 3. New Report Documents Racial Disparities in Health Care Coverage and Access to Care 4. Ethical Concerns and Mixed Results from Using Punitive Measures and Penalties with Welfare Recipients 13 August 2000 1. Covering Kids in the News! 2. What Did Welfare Reform Do to Medicaid in Your State? 3. HCFA Releases State CHIP 1115 Waiver Guidelines 4. New CDF Report Highlights States' Progress in Implementing State CHIP 5. Is the Stigma of Welfare a Barrier to Enrolling? 6. Conducting Children's Health Insurance Outreach in African American Communities 7 August 2000 1. Check Out Washington's TEC-Trial Eligibility Calculator 2. Some States with Web Sites Listing Enrollment Data 3. Immunization: Calling the Shots 4. CHIP Funding: Use it or Lose it 5. Go Directly to Work, Do Not Collect Health Insurance: Low-Income Parents Lose Medicaid 6. Extending Medicaid to Parents: A Strategy for Reducing the Number of Uninsured 7. CDC Releases New Report on U.S. Statistics With a Focus on Adolescent Health 31 July 2000 1. Young Adults: A Growing Proportion of the Uninsured 2. Expanding Medicaid to Cover the Uninsured 3. Access: Studies Examine Immigration, Minority Health 4. Demographic Differences in State CHIP and Medicaid Children Calls for Different Outreach 5. HHS Releases Report Calling for More School-Based Outreach for State CHIP and Medicaid 6. New York City Mayor Announces Innovative Plan to Bring Health Insurance to More Children 23 July 2000 1. Isles 13th in U.S. for Kids' Well-Being 2. South Dakota Joins Covering Kids Initiative 3. New Law Provides Opportunity to Use School Lunch Program Information to Conduct Child Health Insurance Outreach 4. The Uninsured in America: Chart Book 5. Why Are Eligible Families Losing Public Health Insurance? 6. First Nationwide Public Opinion Poll on Those Without Insurance 7. Holding States Accountable for Health Coverage for Kids 13 June 2000 1. HB 540 Signing 2. Isle Web Directory 3. Subsidies Offered for Child Care 4. Westmoreland Outlines Goals/Priorities for Medicaid and CHIP in FY 2000 5. For Child Advocates: Children's Oral Health Do's and Don't's 6. New CDC Pediatric Growth Charts Provide Tool to Ward Off Future Weight Problems 7. Get Ready for Health Issues in Campaign 2000 24 May 2000 1. Web Site Creation, New Partnership, QUEST Booklets 2. Uninsured in America: A Chart Book 3. Gaps in Prevention and Treatment: Dental Care for Low-Income Children 4. Oral Health: Dental Disease Is a Chronic Problem Among Low-Income Populations 5. Expanding Health Insurance for Kids 13 May 2000 1. Conference Call To Address Retention 2. Adolescents and CHIP: Healthy Options for Meeting the Needs of Teens 3. Physicians specializing in adolescent health care echo recommendations 4. Medicaid and CHIP: Comparisons of Outreach, Enrollment Practices, and Benefits 5. Get Your Inaugural Edition of "Sign Them Up! 20 April 2000 1. HB 540 2. New Resource Manual on Immigrant Access to Health Benefits Released by The Access Project and the National Health Law Program 3. Kaiser Report Finds Medicaid Enrollment Up in 21 States 4. Ontario Government Investing $20 Million in Children's Mental Health Services 5. Covering Health: Sourcebook for Journalists 6. Children in Cities: Uncertain Futures 12 April 2000 1. Outreach to Immigrants Topic of Conference Call 2. HCFA Letter Addresses Reinstatement of Wrongly Dropped Medicaid Clients 3. HRSA Announces Health Insurance Access Planning Grants 4. Partners in Transition: Adolescents and Manages Care 5. Can an Elementary School-Based Health Clinic Reduce Medicaid Costs? 10 April 2000 1. Uninsured Teens Often left Out of Medicaid and CHIP 2. Why Do Kids in Families Receiving Welfare Miss More School? 3. Improving Outreach for Medicaid and Food Stamps 4. HCFA Sends Recommendations to State Medicaid Directors 5. Supreme Court Allows Denial of Medicaid Benefits to Noncitizens 31 March 2000 1. National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Care Service 2. Reaching Hard-To-Serve Families: A Framework for Local and Federal Intervention 3. Analysis of Pediatric Dental Visits in 1996 29 March 2000 1. Update on SB 2655 SD 2 Relating to Health 2. At the Federal Level: Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act 3. Poverty in Isles Takes Stronger Grip on Kids