The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, FosterClub, and Generations United held a webinar on Tuesday, March 4th at 3 pm ET. This webinar is free and open to the public.
Why it Matters: Medicaid covers 99% of children in foster care. It’s the lifeline ensuring youth aging out have coverage to age 26. Kin caregivers and adoptive families rely on Medicaid even prevents unnecessary foster care, providing parents with mental health and substance use treatment and helping to ensure basic health care for all family members so families can remain strong and safely together.
What We Will Discuss: Watch to hear individuals with personal experience and experts in the field discuss Medicaid’s positive impact for families in crisis, and what you need to know about how current Congressional deliberations could impact this critical program.
Learn More: Read more and find key points in the newest addition to our mini-brief series: How Medicaid Supports Parents in Crisis, Children in or Aging out of Foster Care, Relative Caregivers, and Adoptive Families or in the new blog posted: A Strong Medicaid Means Strong Families