Let’s Talk Quality and CCDBG!

Slide Deck April 30, 2018

This presentation provides an overview of the 2018 Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and explores the quality activities that count toward the quality set-aside.

Allow Doulas to Be Enrolled for Direct Payment in OHP’s FFS Program

Government Document April 2, 2018

This administrative order is a rule change to make permanent the temporary rules filed 10/13/2017 to allow doulas to be enrolled in the Oregon Health Authority's fee-for-service program to receive direct payment.

Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women

Report April 1, 2018

This Black Paper provides a summary overview of holistic care recommendations using a reproductive justice and human rights framework.

Our Children’s Fear Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children

Research April 1, 2018

In 2017, CLASP conducted a six-month study to better understand how young children, ages eight and under, are affected by immigration policy changes. This first-of-its kind research included interviews and focus group sessions with more than 150 early care and education providers and parents in six states.

State and Local Finance Strategies

Slide Deck March 6, 2018

This PowerPoint from a five-part webinar series explores and shares supply-building successes and lessons learned in states and communities.

Trauma Informed Care Initiatives Show Promise for Improving Practice in the Child Welfare System

Website March 1, 2018

While there is little evidence about which trauma-informed approaches are most effective in child welfare systems, Child Trends recently evaluated two specific models, finding them to be promising approaches for improving outcomes. This article, on the Child Trends website, discusses Trauma Systems Therapy and ARC Reflections models.

Our Children’s Fear Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children

Report March 1, 2018

This report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream: An Exploration of How to Embed Medicaid Dietician Services in Head Start Settings

Report March 1, 2018

This brief profiles how a state Medicaid agency and its partners can explore maximizing the authority that exists under federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) law to deliver an upstream preventive service in a nonclinical setting. Services for children provide an entry point for states desiring to move prevention upstream, given the robust scope of the federal Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit for children.

Medicaid and Head Start: Opportunities to Collaborate and Pay for Upstream Prevention

Report March 1, 2018

This issue brief draws upon initial experiences from Maryland Medicaid’s early efforts to explore connecting one Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) with one or more local Head Start programs in the interest of linking families to needed services — including at least one upstream preventive service — and addressing the social determinants of health. Maryland Medicaid is meeting with a Medicaid MCO, Head Start representatives and a representative from the Maryland Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to pilot the delivery of Medicaid-funded group nutritional counseling in Head Start settings.

State Policies for Assessing Access: Analysis of 2016-2018 Child Care Development Plans

Archived Meeting Resources March 1, 2018

This research report examines how states and territories are addressing, or plan to address, new requirements and goals of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) reauthorization law related to access to early care and education (ECE) services described in their 2016–2018 FY state/territory CCDF plans.