Early Childhood and Medicaid/CHIP: Opportunities for Partnering
This slide deck, Early Childhood and Medicaid CHIP: Opportunities for Partnering, presented by Debbie I. Chang from Nemours Children’s Health System provides highlights of the paper with the same name. The presentation covers why Medicaid/CHIP needs to be at the early childhood table, how Medicaid/CHIP programs work, strategies for ECE experts to engage Medicaid/CHIP, and examples of Medicaid/CHIP and ECE collaboration.
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Report September 13, 2024
This brief, published by National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, aims to improve our understanding of the well-being of the Hispanic ECE workforce and how ECE programs may play a role in their well-being (or “wellness”).
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BUILD believes that to effectively meet the needs of young children and their families, we must recognize existing disparities, including opportunity and achievement gaps. Therefore, we see the urgent need to support policy solutions to better serve Latino infants, toddlers, and families.