Newsletters

Below are the National Covering Kids and Families Network Newsletters. All newsletters are available in PDF format unless otherwise noted. 2011 August 18 August 4 July 19 July 5 June 17 June 7 May 20 May 6 April 15 March 31 March 17 March 4 February 16 February 2 January 21 January 7 2010 December […]

NCKF Leadership Committee

Ann Bacharach Special Projects Director Pennsylvania Health Law Project Judi Cramer Senior Consultant Southern Institute on Children and Families Co-Chair Leadership Sandy Oxley State Field Director Voices for Ohio’s Children Co-Chair Policy Theresa Gavazzi Director Health Insurance Programs Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network (New York) Co-Chair Membership Jodi Ray Project Director The Lawton and Rhea […]

Covering Kids & Families Reports and Evaluations

Numerous reports and evaluations were conducted during and after the Covering Kids and Families grant project, all of which are available on the Robert Wood Johnson website.  Below are some of the reports NCKF members may find interesting and helpful to their work. Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: A Continuing Program for Increasing Insurance Coverage […]

New Tools to Enhance Your Outreach Efforts

October 25, 2010 Included in this webinar is a presentation by Jenny Kenney at the Urban Institute about the chartbook they developed with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about their new research on eligible but unenrolled children.  There are two additional presentations about how to reach uninsured children- one from Alison Betty […]

Let’s Not Forget About CHIPRA!

February 8, 2011 This webinar included a presentation about the new options states have to improve and expand coverage for children through Medicaid and CHIP through CHIPRA.  Special attention was paid to how a state could earn performance bonus dollars for making significant improvements to its Medicaid enrollment through cutting red tape in its CHIP […]

Simplification: What’s Working in Getting and Keeping Children Covered?

May 17, 2011 This webinar focused on the simplification strategies available to states to get and keep children covered. We learned more about the national picture and which states have adopted various strategies, some of the successes and some of the lessons learned. Speakers from Alabama and Iowa presented on specific strategies that they have […]