Issue Areas
The Center for Children and Families (CCF) works to expand and improve health coverage for America's children and families. We develop and disseminate research, strategies, and ideas to improve coverage for children and families, working at both the federal and state level to bring these strategies and ideas to fruition.
Visit the following sections to learn about the issue areas that CCF focuses on, and obtain relevant resources.
Getting to the Finish Line
Lawmakers across the country are investing in efforts to make health coverage available to more children and families. CCF's work (including a project by the Packard Foundation) builds upon this progress and provides states with resources to cover all of America's children and families through public and private health coverage initiatives.
Learn more about Getting to the Finish Line
Strengthening Medicaid
Medicaid provides health coverage to more than one out of every four children, making it a strong and reliable building block for children's coverage. CCF's Strengthening Medicaid project develops fresh approaches to bring a new voice to the public debate about improving the Medicaid program.
Last Piece of the Puzzle: Children in Health Reform
Health care reform has taken center stage in Congress and children have a large stake in this debate. CCF's health reform project focuses, through research and policy analysis, on putting the the last pieces of the puzzle in place to ensure all children have high-quality, affordable health coverage.
CHIP: Putting the New Law to Work
CHIP, with Medicaid, has been resoundingly successful in providing health care to low-income children. CCF's CHIP work provides information and resources on issues impacting the program's efforts to provide health coverage to children, including activities surrounding the implementation of the 2009 CHIP law.