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Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC

2009

This report by Children’s HealthWatch highlights the implications of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on very young children. The report details research indicating that WIC improves children’s health as well as reduces the risk of developmental delays.

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Publication thumbnail for The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field

The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field

2006

This report explores whether there had been a general change or shift in attitudes and beliefs about parental involvement in the adolescent reproductive health field over the past decade, and whether or not Plain Talk had played a role in bringing about that change. The report also covers issues such as access to services and disproportionate rates of pregnancy and STDs among minority populations.

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Publication thumbnail for Costs of Cutting Health Care: An Analysis of Recent Changes to New Jersey FamilyCare

Costs of Cutting Health Care: An Analysis of Recent Changes to New Jersey FamilyCare

2011

This policy report uses results from the Family Resource Simulator and the Basic Needs Budget Calculator to analyze New Jersey’s work support policies through the lens of cuts to New Jersey FamilyCare (NJFC). It examines the significant and measurable ways in which these cuts affect low-income children and families, the state budget, and the local economy.

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Publication thumbnail for How Human Service Programs and Their Clients Can Benefit from National Health Reform Legislation

How Human Service Programs and Their Clients Can Benefit from National Health Reform Legislation

2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)1 seeks to greatly reduce the number of uninsured Americans. This report looks at ways the ACA can open the door for policies and practices that can reduce human services programs’ error rates, lower their administrative costs, and cut red tape for families.

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Publication thumbnail for Children’s Mental Health in Virginia: System Deficiencies and Unknown Outcomes

Children’s Mental Health in Virginia: System Deficiencies and Unknown Outcomes

2011

This report describes services available largely through the various agencies within Virginia’s Secretariat of Health and Human Resources.

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Publication thumbnail for The Dental Safety Net in Rhode Island

The Dental Safety Net in Rhode Island

2011

This report looks at the dentists and their teams in private practice who provide care to the underserved to ensuring adequate oral health care for all Rhode Islanders.

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Publication thumbnail for When Work Supports Don’t Support Work: A Case for Parental Health Coverage in Mississippi

When Work Supports Don’t Support Work: A Case for Parental Health Coverage in Mississippi

2011

This policy brief uses results from the Family Resource Simulator and the Basic Needs Budget Calculator to analyze Mississippi’s work support policies.

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