This report summarizes how a pilot program demonstrating how to successfully train low-income youth with marketable skills in technology and multimedia production works and its accomplishments. It also features recommendations for how public and private sector leaders can extend the program’s benefits.
This report looks at the extent to which the Internet today meets the needs of the estimated 50 million Americans who have low incomes, limited-literacy or language skills, or other special needs. It serves as an update to our March 2000 report, Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans: The Digital Divide’s New Frontier.
This report describes a four-year $7.5 million demonstration program aimed at closing the technology gap in 11 low-income, diverse California communities. This report analyzes key components of this demonstration program, including lessons learned and implications for action.
A report developed by The Children’s Partnership as part of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children’s Defense Fund. It provides recommendations for creating a unified health insurance program for California’s children and their parents.
This 60-page guidebook provides technical information that a state or locality needs to know to undertake Express Lane. It includes an array of tools to assist in these efforts, including detailed program analysis, sample applications and data charts.
This publication by The Children’s Partnership and California WIC Association examines ways to make the WIC and the Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal/Healthy Families) connection work more effectively to increase the number of insured WIC-enrolled children in California.
This report aims to describe the group of Americans—estimated at 50 million—who are underserved by Internet content, to analyze the online content currently available for those who are underserved, and to provide a road map for action.
This briefing presents a data snapshot of some of the challenges we face for the 21st century along with a picture of the changing demographics affecting children and the nation over the next decade. This briefing aims to be a valuable information tool as efforts are made to address the unique needs of children and families in the years ahead.
This report begins with a snapshot of children in America in 1900 and 2000, including the policy milestones that changed America and its families. The report looks ahead to new ways to better the lives of America’s children.
This strategy brief provides a general overview of the issue of Express Lane Eligibility. It examines how states can utilize programs such as food stamps to help find and enroll the roughly 7 million uninsured American children eligible for health insurance.