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Improving Health Care Quality

Building a Statewide Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Continuum

Blog / May 10, 2023

Image, young child getting vaccine from gloved doctor hands

Advancing Health Equity

How Pediatric Care Providers Are Identifying and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on Children

Publication / May 09, 2023

Students enjoy the game room at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2023. California is investing more than $4 billion to revamp its approach to youth mental health, ensuring that services are community-based, equitable, and inclusive of many different types of providers. Photo: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Strengthening Home- and Community-Based Services to Stabilize Young People with Behavioral Health Problems and Keep Them Out of Hospitals

Blog / Mar 08, 2023

A health worker prepares to administer a dose of Pfizer covid-19 vaccine to a girl at the Sanford Civic Center.

Improving Health Care Quality

How a COVID Booster Campaign Could Keep Kids Out of the Hospital and in School

Blog / Nov 15, 2022

Third graders line up in Erin Criss's classroom at Forestdale Elementary School in Springfield, VA on August 22, 2022.

Improving Health Care Quality

Using New Federal Funding to Meet Children’s Behavioral Health Needs in School

Blog / Nov 08, 2022

Teens walking in the hallway of Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Improving Health Care Quality

Medicaid’s Essential Role in Improving the Mental Health of America’s Most Vulnerable Youth

Blog / Sep 20, 2022

Illustration of podcast host sitting on oversized headphones along with oversized mic and various health care symbols

Advancing Health Equity

Insights, Impacts, and an Invitation from The Dose

Podcast / Jun 17, 2022

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Advancing Health Equity

Closing the Mental Health Care Gap for Black Teens

Podcast / Mar 25, 2022

Doctor looks in baby's ear in doctors office while mother holds baby

Achieving Universal Coverage

Stable and Continuous Coverage Provisions in Medicaid Gain Momentum Through Build Back Better Act

Blog / Feb 09, 2022

Kyra Betts holds her five-month-old son Nathan Randy Patton Jr. outside her mother’s home in St. Louis on May 20, 2021.

Advancing Health Equity

The High Costs of Maternal Morbidity Show Why We Need Greater Investment in Maternal Health

Issue Briefs / Nov 12, 2021

Nurse with mask and face shield gives young teen a COVID vaccine

Improving Health Care Quality

Five Priorities for States to Support Pediatric Practices in Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children

Blog / Oct 29, 2021

Immigrants crossing the border in search of health care

Achieving Universal Coverage

Sick in the Shadows: Why Immigrants Should Have Health Care

Podcast / May 07, 2021

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