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Family Networks (like AYFN) across the country

Links and listings to 42 state networks.

Each family network assures that when a parent, grandparent, foster parent or youth makes a call to a network, the person who answers the phone has first-hand knowledge of the challenges of raising a child with an emotional or behavioral challenge. They know the resources for help in their state.

Secretary Duncan Sends Letter to Chief State School Officers on Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

Secretary Duncan Sends Letter to Chief State School Officers on Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

FOR RELEASE:
August 3, 2009

Contact: Sandra Abrevaya
(202) 401-1576 or
sandra.abrevaya@ed.gov

Making Progress on Health Care Disparities

Making Progress on Health Care Disparities assesses the progress made by the National Health Plan Collaborative (NHPC), a collection of health insurance companies and private and public organizations that works to improve the quality of health care for racial and ethnic minorities. The report looks at the NHPC’s activities that were designed to encourage and support health plans’ leadership in their work on disparities. It also assesses plans’ ability to collect data to better identify disparities.
Source: 
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/Press%20Releases/nationalhealth.asp

Medicare's Role for Women

Medicare’s Role for Women examines the demographics of women who rely on Medicare, including their health status and income levels. It also looks at the benefits and cost-sharing requirements of Medicare and the prevalence of other types of coverage, such as job-based insurance or Medigap. For women, who are disproportionately low-income and who have more chronic conditions than men, Medicare is a particularly critical source of retirement security.
Source: 
http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/7913.cfm

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in 2009 and Key Changes since 2006

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in 2009 and Key Changes since 2006: Summary of Findings includes data on the number of drug plans available, premium increases, and the coverage gap (the “doughnut hole”). The brief also addresses cost-sharing as a part of benefit design, as well as the specialty tier most Part D plans use to cover high-cost medications.
Source: 
http://www.kff.org/medicare/7917.cfm

CHIP Tips: New Federal Funding Availabe to Cover Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women

CHIP Tips: New Federal Funding Available to Cover Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women highlights new opportunities for covering children under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA). The brief examines how the new option works and provides information about eligibility requirements. In addition, it explains the choices states face when deciding whether to pursue this option.
Source: 
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7915.cfm

Families with Mixed Eligibility for Public Coverage: Navigating Medicaid, CHIP and Unisurance

Families with Mixed Eligibility for Public Coverage: Navigating Medicaid, CHIP, and Uninsurance finds that, in families with multiple children who have different eligibility statuses, there is a 26 percent chance that one or more children will be uninsured. Mixed eligibility occurs most often in families with children of different immigration statuses, where older, foreign-born children may not be eligible for the public coverage their younger, U.S.-born siblings can receive.
Source: 
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.28.4.w697v1

Setting a National Minimum Standard for Health Benefits

Setting a National Minimum Standard for Health Benefits: How Do State Benefit Mandates Compare with Benefits in Large-Group Plans? compares state-mandated benefits with the services and providers covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) Blue Cross and Blue Shield standard benefit package.
Source: 
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2009/Jun/Setting-a-National-Minimum-Standard-for-Healt...

Changes to the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

Changes to the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums: A Potential Source of Financing for Health Reform focuses on a two-part design for reducing or eliminating this tax exclusion: 1) a cap or dollar limit on the amount of job-based health insurance premiums that are excluded from taxable income, and 2) an index that determines how this cap might grow over time.
Source: 
http://www.urban.org/publications/411916.html

How to Structure a "Play -or-Pay" Requirement on Employers

How to Structure a “Play-or-Pay” Requirement on Employers examines not only how to structure an employer coverage mandate, but also the economic and political impacts of such a mandate, as part of health reform. In addition, it offers recommendations for navigating the political issues raised by such a requirement. The authors conclude that the potential negative effects of instituting a mandate are modest and would be outweighed by the benefits.
Source: 
http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2009062516/how-structure-play-or-pay-requirement-employers

Fork in the Road: Alternative Paths to a High Performanc US Health System

Fork in the Road: Alternative Paths to a High Performance U.S. Health System compares three different health reform scenarios: 1) one that includes a public plan option in which health care providers would be paid at rates midway between Medicare rates and private plan rates, 2) one that includes a public plan option that links payments more closely to Medicare rates, and 3) one that includes no public plan (instead relying exclusively on private plans).
Source: 
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Jun/Fork-in-the-Road.aspx

Considering a Health Care Insurance Exchange: Lessons from the Rhode Island Experience

Considering a Health Insurance Exchange: Lessons from the Rhode Island Experience highlights the importance of clearly defining the goals of an exchange, and getting major stakeholders to participate, during the health reform process.
Source: 
http://www.statecoverage.org/files/Considering%20a%20Health%20Insurance%20Exchange.pdf

Side by Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals

Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals compares the leading reform proposals across a number of key characteristics, including expansion of public programs, benefit design, and changes to private insurance. The side-by-side includes details from H.R.

Source: 
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

Solutions to Community Alcohol Problems

Solutions to Community Alcohol Problems
A Roadmap for Environmental Prevention

A guide to action for people who want to build communities free from alcohol-related problems.

Download a PDF of the document now!

Source: 
http://www.marininstitute.org/roadmap/index.htm

Join Together

Join Together

Join Together is a program of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991 it has been the nation's leading provider of information, strategic planning assistance, and leadership development for community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. They believe problems associated with alcohol and drugs can be best addressed at the community level.

The Anchorage Youth Development Coalition

The Anchorage Youth Development Coalition provides leadership and coordinates resources and efforts to ensure that all Anchorage youth thrive. AYDC works to increase protective factors and reduce substance abuse and other risk factors through the Developmental Assets Framework, and other research based prevention strategies.
Source: 
http://www.aydc.org/

Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education

Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education
The mission of the Council is to create change that improves the independence, productivity, and inclusion into the community for people with developmental disabilities and students in special education.

International Survivors Action Commitee

The website of the International Survivors Action Committee (ISAC), a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

We believe every child deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

Our mission is to expose abuse, civil rights violations, and fraud perpetuated through privately-owned facilities for juveniles.

Source: 
http://www.isaccorp.org

COALITION AGAINST INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILD ABUSE

CAICA seeks to expose and rectify the abuse and distress of children placed in private residential facilities, behavior modification programs, boot camps, wilderness programs, and boarding schools. We believe that no child should be abducted, incarcerated, abused, neglected, or stripped of their basic human rights for the sake of profit.
                    
Source: 
http://www.caica.org

FFSA

FACING FOSTER CARE IN ALASKA

Facing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA) is a group of current foster youth and alumni that has formed to make improvements to the foster care system in Alaska.  Please contact shae@ayfn for any information.

Source: 
http://www.alaskacasa.org/news.htm

NATIONAL DISSEMINATION CENTER for CHILDREN with DISABILITIES

NICHCY is an information and referal center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues Children and youth with disabilities (birth to age 22 )are our special focus.

Career Exploration with e-mentors

A web site to connect youth with adults who have interesting careers and want to answer your questions about what they do, how they prepared for such a career and how they dealt with their own disabilities.  Some of their disabilities are visible (like using a wheelchair) and some are not visible (like depression or a learning disability). 

On this site, you can read the information or post questions.   After a short training, you can e-mail or contact the mentor directly.

Source: 
http://www.careerjourneys.org/metadot/index.pl

Alaska Works Initiative

A web site that explains how to address barriers to employment if you are an Alaskan with a disability, where and how to get support and help to prepare to begin or return to work and the finances of working while still on public benefits (like Medicaid). Explanation of the "ticket to work" program, benefits calculator and planners, beginning your own business and understanding the various programs that apply to SSI or SSDI income, such as PASS (Plan to Achieve Self-Support), Self-Employment Subsidty, IRWE (Impairment Related Work Expenses).
Source: 
http://www.alaskaworksinitiative.org/
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