A look at impacts, opportunities and barriers in school-based Medicaid
School-based Medicaid can support improved health for students but can also present challenges to implementation for Medicaid programs.
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Medicaid Forward: Children’s Health
Medicaid Forward: Children’s Health identifies opportunities for action to address the physical and mental health needs of children and their caregivers in the wake of the pandemic, in a report and webinar.
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- Lindsey Browning
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Medicaid Forward: Children’s Health identifies opportunities for action to address the physical and mental health needs of children and their caregivers in the wake of the pandemic. This is an escalating challenge Medicaid and the CHIP programs must address for the more than 37 million children and young people are enrolled in either Medicaid or CHIP. Many of these children have experienced social isolation due to school closures and are enduring the secondary trauma of watching their parents and care-givers deal with the economic and health ramifications of COVID.
Check out the other two reports in the Medicaid Forward series: Behavioral Health and Long-Term Services and Support.
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Webinar
This webinar orients Medicaid leaders and the Medicaid policy community to the NAMD resource, Medicaid Forward: Children’s Health. This resource is the second in a three-part series that explores how Medicaid can support the nation’s recovery from the pandemic.
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