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Children and Youth with Significant Behavioral Health Needs Will Benefit from New Legal Settlements by States Committing to Provide Intensive Home and Community Based Services
Children and youth with serious behavioral health conditions are too often placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities and psychiatric hospitals due to their challenging behaviors and complex needs. They are also often involved in multiple child-serving systems, such as the child welfare, juvenile justice and special education systems. Medicaid covers 4 in 10 children and…
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The Perfect Storm: How Immigration and Medicaid Policy Changes Are Exacerbating a Student Mental Health Crisis
Before the current wave of immigration policy changes, America’s children were already in crisis. Youth mental health had deteriorated to the point that in 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association took the…
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CCF Comments on “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility” NPRM
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility.” Read the Comments
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Proposed Public Charge Rule Could Increase the Number of Uninsured Children by More than 25 Percent
Georgetown CCF just submitted our comments on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to lift current rules used to determine whether an immigrant is likely to become a “public charge”. The proposed rule would replace carefully crafted existing regulations with almost unlimited discretion for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers to “use their judgment” to determine…
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Medicaid Managed Care in 2025: The Year That Was
The lead story of 2025 is the enactment of H.R. 1, which will dramatically alter the Medicaid coverage and financing landscape over at least the next three years. The primary target of the law’s Medicaid cuts were the 41 states (including DC) that have elected to cover the expansion adults; of these, 34 contract with…