Additional Resources for CYSHCN
Urgent Action Needed to Address Children’s Unmet Health Care Needs During the Pandemic, from The Urban Institute. COVID-19 and the Decline of Well-Child Care: Implications for Children, Families, and States, from the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. State Data and Policy Actions to Addr [...]
Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature
A paper published by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Presents a review of published literature on CHW programs, primarily focusing on maternal and newborn child health, for the purposes of identifying key components of successful CHW programs, reviewing past successes [...]
Care Coordination in a Statewide System of Care: Financing Models and Payment Strategies
Care coordination for CYSHCN is a service that links CYSHCN and their families with appropriate services and resources in an effort to achieve good health.
Infographic: Medicaid & CHIP: What’s the Difference?
This infographic explains the important differences between Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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 ad [...]
Emergency Preparedness Resources
Disaster Preparedness for State Medicaid Agencies, from Medicaid and Chip Coverage Learning Collaborative. Preparedness Checklist for Pediatric Practices, from American Academy of Pediatrics. Emergency Preparedness for People With Chronic Diseases, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Th [...]
Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers: A Policy and Systems-Level Approach
A CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention-published policy brief. Provides guidance and resources for integrating CHW into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease. Provides general information on CHW in the U.S., then details the value and impact of CHW in preventing and mana [...]
Health Care Reform and the Massachusetts CommonHealth Program: An Important Foundation to Build on for Children with Disabilities
This Catalyst Center policy brief describes the impact of the CommonHealth program and its relevance to the Massachusetts health care reform experience.
MED-HEART: Models of Care: Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations
Below are links to manuals for the models of care that were developed as part of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations. They include a multisite manual that provides an overview of the initiative and nine manuals created by each of the nine d [...]
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 [...]
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