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Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition Releases FY ’26-’27 Budget Report, Urges Lawmakers to Adopt 70+ Child Friendly Proposals

Children’s Defense Fund

Implement a waiver for continuous Medicaid coverage for children ages 0-3, with potential expansion to age 6. Expand Medicaid/Childrens Health Insurance Program eligibility to 300% of the federal poverty line. Prioritize anti-lunch-shaming policies to ensure no student is denied a hot meal at school.

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CDF-Ohio Finds Some Proposals in Governor’s Budget Encouraging as Data Suggests Almost 470,000 OH Youth Continue to Struggle with Poverty

Children’s Defense Fund

The findings, which come from Childrens Defense Fund-Ohio’s (CDF-Ohio) 2024 Kids Count Data Profiles , show it would be wise for Ohio to adopt some of the youth-based budget proposals presented by Governor Mike DeWine. million youth, receive health care through Medicaid. 54 percent of children, roughly 1.4 Meanwhile, 20.4

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Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare: A Digital Path to Resilience

Relias

professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management: Determine where your organization needs to go and how ‘digitally mature’ it currently is. amount of telehealth adoption prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,?some Several factors drove these concerns, such as licensing, Medicare/Medicaid?reimbursement, there was a fair?amount

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What You Need To Know About Value-Based Payment Models

Relias

But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. By 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began piloting value-based care programs that linked payment to quality measures.

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The National Foster Care Placement Crisis: Why Are Kids Sleeping in Offices? [VIDEO]

KVC

Alex’s stress led to behavior challenges and school fights, eventually involving the juvenile justice system because Alex couldn’t access the help he needed. Foster or Adopt – There’s a child or teen who needs someone just like YOU – and at KVC, we make sure the opportunity to foster is open to all people.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. In September you send your son off to boarding school. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office.