The Essential Components of Health Care Reform for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
As the possibility of national health care reform became a reality, the Catalyst Center identified three things children with special health care needs would need: Coverage that is universal and continuous, adequate, and affordable.
Digital Story: The Peer Program Makes a Big Difference
This digital story describes how one peer educator supports one client’s efforts to manage his HIV self-care. It does not represent all peers and clients, nor does it portray all the ways peers help clients cope with the daily stresses of living with HIV.
Infographic: Medicaid & CHIP: What’s the Difference?
This infographic explains the important differences between Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Tami Gouveia
Appointed Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health and Paul Farmer Professor of Practice in 2023, Dr. Tami Gouveia has extensive experience as a leader in social work and public health, policymaking, and change management. Throughout her 25-year career, she has used her expe [...]
Estimating the Cost per Child Under the Family Opportunity Act’s Medicaid Buy-in Option: An Update
Previous Catalyst Center calculations of costs per child for children with disabilities eligible for Medicaid coverage under the Family Opportunity Act were derived from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates. In this revised estimate, we use information from the Medicaid Statistical Informat [...]
Digital Story: Changing Lives Through Good Oral Health
This digital story demonstrates how access to oral health care improved the quality of life of three people living with HIV. Changing Lives Through Good HIV Oral Health from HDWG BUSPH on Vimeo.
Daniel Jacobson López
Daniel Jacobson López, an expert in trauma, joined BU School of Social Work as an assistant professor in 2021. He is also visiting faculty at Yale University’s School of Public Health and a BU Diversity & Inclusion STAR scholar. His research examines the experiences of gay Latino and Black se [...]
Breaking the Link Between Special Health Care Needs and Financial Hardship
Having health insurance doesn’t automatically protect families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) from financial hardship. In the first edition of Breaking the Link, produced in 2009, the Catalyst Center identified three pathways that lead to financial hardship and medic [...]
Health Care Coverage and Financing for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial to Address Inequities
Certain vulnerable subgroups of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) face underlying structural disadvantage in terms of health care coverage. Differences exist within the population of CSHCN based on race, ethnicity, income, immigration status, language, and level of functional difficult [...]
Margaret Lombe
An expert in social work and global health equity, Dr. Lombe is part of the macro practice department at BUSSW and, in addition to her professorship, is faculty director for the BRIDGE Program, BUSSW’s innovative pre-MSW program for immigrants and refugees designed to promote access and equity in [...]
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