Useful Websites on Children’s
Health Insurance
California Sites:
Healthy Families Program
www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov
Healthy Families is low cost insurance for children
and teens in California. It provides health, dental
and vision coverage to children who do not have insurance
and do not qualify for free Medi-Cal.
100% Campaign
www.100percentcampaign.org
The 100% Campaign, a collaborative effort of Children
Now, the Children’s Defense Fund California and
The Children’s Partnership, to ensure that all
of California's children obtain the health coverage
they need to grow up strong and healthy.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Project
http://www.healthykidsproject.org
This web site provides a clearinghouse of information
about school-based outreach and enrollment programs
in California and across the nation. The goal of these
programs is to increase enrollment of children in low-
and no-cost health insurance programs.
CHAMP-Net
http://www.champ-net.org/
CHAMP-Net provides information to those helping low-income
families find free or low cost health coverage for children
and pregnant women
National Sites
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)
http://www.childrensdefense.org/childhealth/chip/default.asp
More than nine million children under age 19 in the
United States have no health insurance — and nearly
90 percent of them are in working families. The goal
of CDF’s Child Health Division is to help all
children gain access to comprehensive, quality, health
care services.
Insure Kids Now
http://www.insurekidsnow.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsored
website with a number of informative pages, messages,
and presentations on the importance of children’s
health insurance, including information in Spanish.
Outreach Information Clearinghouse
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/schip/outreach
This page provides valuable information and a forum
for exchange of ideas among states, community-based
organizations, children's groups, and other interested
parties regarding outreach for the State Children's
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Covering Kids and Families
http://www.coveringkidsandfamilies.org
Covering Kids: A National Health Access Initiative for
Low-Income, Uninsured Children was established to help
states and local communities increase the number of
eligible children who benefit from health insurance
coverage programs. This site includes information about
the initiative in California and around the country.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/shsh/
The Start Healthy, Stay Healthy campaign is a national
outreach effort conducted by the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities. This site provides information on
the campaign, statistics on Medicaid and State Children's
Health Insurance Programs around the country, and an
opportunity to order a kit containing outreach materials.
Families USA
http://www.familiesusa.org
Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization
dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable
health and long-term care for all Americans.
Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent
philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues
facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent
voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers,
the media, the health care community, and the general
public
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Child Care Resources
The following links are to online resources
related to children and child care. Stephanie Starks
HOPE Foundation does not sponsor or endorse any of these
websites, does not monitor these websites, and is not
responsible in any way for the content on any of these
linked websites.
Amazing Kids
This organization is dedicated to inspiring excellence
in children.
They do this through offering educational programs and
projects,
contests and scholarships.
http://www.amazing-kids.org
Building Child Care
This site’s purpose is to provide a centralized
clearinghouse of
information and services designed to improve child care
providers’
access to financial resources for facilities development
projects in California.
http://www.buildingchildcare.org/
California Association for Family Child Care
Provides a calendar of events, resources for child care
providers and
their business, association information, legislative
and licensing updates,
as well as product recalls and product bulletins sent
out by the
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
http://www.cafcc.org/
California Child Care Health Program (CCHP)
This program offers many supportive services to the
child care community:
the Child Care Healthline, the Child Care Health Linkages
Program, the
Child Care Health Connections Newsletter, Lead Poisoning
and Anemia
Prevention, the Child Care Behavioral Project, and much
more.
http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/
California Child Care Resource & Referral
Agency Directory
This web page allows visitors to access an index of
the state-funded
child care resource and referral agencies in California
sorted by county.
http://www.rrnetwork.org/rrnet/resources_and_links/counties.php
California Department of Education, Child Development
Division
Find useful information on child development programs
in California,
including funding, codes, and regulations as well as
the mission and values
of the Division. There is also information on the state
budget for child care
and a summary of the proposed budget for child development
programs.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/
California Resource & Referral Network
Founded in 1980, this organization coordinates services
that assist local
child care resource and referral (R&R) agencies
in providing child care
information and services to parents, child care providers,
policy makers,
as well as business and community members in every county
in the state.
http://www.rrnetwork.org/rrnet/index.htm
California’s Healthy Kids Resource Center
This site provides education materials for free loan
to teachers,
professionals, and community members who work with students
and includes a searchable online catalog.
http://www.hkresources.org/c/@sYIM004SExEAU/Pages/index.html
Center for the Future of Children
A web-based publication of the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and
International Affairs (at Princeton University and the
Brookings Institution),
the primary purpose is to disseminate timely information
on major issues
related to children’s well being. Many of the
journals are available online
or are free to order.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/
Child Care Nutrition Resource System
This is a resource guide for the Child and Adult Care
Food Program
(CACFP or CCFP) maintained by the National Agricultural
Library, a
division of the USDA. Here child care providers may
find many recipes
and other information and parents can make sure their
children are
getting the proper nutrition.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/Childcare/index.html
Child Care Parent/Provider Information Network
Launched in 1996, this site is for Family Child Care
Providers and
Parents seeking Family Child Care and information. It
includes an
online Family Child Care e-zine (electronic magazine)
with informative
articles written by Family Child Care Professionals
and Providers as well
as business specialists.
http://www.ccppin.com/
Child Development Regional Resource Center
Crystal Stairs was funded by the California Department
of Education
to develop a Child Development Regional Resource Center
(CDRRC)
for Los Angeles County. The Center’s purpose is
to promote and support
the development of child care facilities in underserved
areas of the county.
The Center provides information, resources, training
and specialized
technical assistance to individuals and groups who want
to start and/or
expand child care services in high need areas.
http://www.cdrrc.org/
Child Welfare League of America
CWLA is an association of 1,200 public and private non-profit
agencies
that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children
and their
families each year with a wide range of services.
http://www.cwla.org/
Children’s Defense Fund
CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children
of America
who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. They
pay particular
attention to the needs of poor and minority children
and those with
disabilities. CDF educations the nation about the needs
of children and
encourages preventative investment before they get sick
or into trouble,
drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Connections for Children
This Child Care Resource and Referral Agency is located
in Santa Monica,
CA. Their website has resources for parents and child
care providers.
http://www.cfc-ca.org/
Healthy School Meals Resource System
HSMRS is a searchable site providing information for
persons working in
the USDA Child Nutrition Program.
http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/
Kids and Politics
Connect for Kids has developed this site where concerned
adults can track
the issues that matter most for kids and families. An
alternative news
source on the Web, Connect for Kids provides solutions-oriented
coverage
of critical issues for children and families.
http://www.kidsandpolitics.org/
National Association for the Education of Young
Children
NAEYC is the nation's largest and most influential organization
of early
childhood educators and others dedicated to improving
the quality of
programs for children from birth through third grade.
http://www.naeyc.org/
National Association of Child Care Resource
and Referral Agencies
NACCRA provides national leadership for agencies dedicated
to building
quality child care systems, community by community,
and neighborhood
by neighborhood.
http://www.naccrra.net/
National Child Care Information Center
NCCIC was established to complement, enhance, and promote
child
care linkages and to serve as a mechanism for supporting
quality,
comprehensive services for children and families. They
provide links to
many other child care resources on the web and also
publish the
Child Care Bulletin.
http://nccic.org/
National Network for Child Care
NNCC provides child care information from America’s
leading public
colleges and universities. The goal is to share knowledge
about children
and child care with parents, professionals, practitioners,
and the general
public. The site includes an array of information resources,
as well as
KidCare, a listserve for those interested in child care.
http://www.nncc.org/
Special Needs Advisory Project (SNAP) Los Angeles
This program is a result of a Los Angeles County initiative
to provide
education and resources for families and child care
providers and to
increase opportunities for children with special needs
to have a place in
quality early care and education programs.
http://www.snapla.org/
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