This report reviews promising practices underway across the country and provides concrete ideas for leaders at the federal level, in the states, and in the philanthropic and corporate communities who want to use technology tools effectively.
This issue brief is designed to help leaders for children better understand what broadband is and what is at stake for our nation’s 73 million children in the policy debate. It offers concrete ways that leaders can make children’s needs a priority and advocate for digital opportunities for all youth.
This issue brief provides a roadmap of health care outreach strategies California provisional schools that are interested in implementing Express Enrollment can employ. Provisional schools have a high concentration of low-income students and provide school meals free without the collection of applications over multiple years.
This issue brief documents results from California’s Express Enrollment pilot program to enroll uninsured children into health insurance through school lunch. It reviews program activities, assesses its overall effectiveness, and applies lessons to state efforts to use public programs to enroll uninsured children into health coverage.
This brief was released in conjunction with the three-year evaluation of the pilot project conducted by USC Division of Community Health. The report provides data and lessons learned from the program.
This review from The Children’s Partnership provides in-depth analysis of existing research and data and finds that when applied effectively by parents, teachers, doctors, and others, Information & Communications Technology holds the potential to be a powerful conduit to opportunity for young people. The report acts as a companion to Measuring Digital Opportunity for America’s Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here.
This strategy brief summarizes why any elected official should care about technology readiness for youth, and it offers a three-point plan for deploying technology to help youth compete effectively in the 21st-century world. While this document has been tailored specifically to California, this digital opportunity action plan can be modified to fit any state by using data from our Digital Opportunity for Youth state fact sheets.
In America, 8.4 million children remain uninsured even though about 70% of them are eligible for public health coverage. This report from The Children’s Partnership lays out a 10-step plan to enroll “eligible but unninsured” children into Medicaid and SHIP. The plan focuses on using common doorways, technology and policy reforms to make enrollment and renewal routine and timely.
This issue brief by The Children’s Partnership discusses Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) and introduces nine specific concerns about how these health insurance plans would affect children. This issue brief is intended to prompt discussion on the best way to provide insurance to all of America’s children.
This report by The Children’s Partnership in collaboration with the 100% Campaign maps the process by which uninsured children in Los Angeles County attain and maintain health coverage through Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids, as well as recommendations for simplifying the system.
This report is the first-ever look across four key areas to see whether Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is helping children 1) improve educational achievement, 2) lead healthier lives, 3) increase economic opportunity, and 4) participate in their communities. The year-long study also reveals the disparities that have resulted in an “opportunity gap” for millions of low-income and ethnic minority children.