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08.26.19

Actionable Strategies for Promoting Children’s Social and Emotional Development

It is critical to incorporate screening for social and emotional concerns within routine developmental and behavioral surveillance conducted during well-child visits.


07.25.19

Blueprint Promotes Medicaid Strategies Targeting Children’s Social/Emotional Health

In the first three years of life, a child’s brain is developing at an unparalleled pace.


07.22.19

How Can Medicaid and CHIP Support Children’s Emotional Health?

The pediatric channel provides a unique opportunity to reach parents and their children during the first three years of life.


06.25.19

Best Practices and Next Steps in the Opioid Epidemic

Mississippi’s opioid epidemic is following national trends.


05.22.19

Promoting Comprehensive Healthcare Delivery for Children

InCK, a new federal initiative, encourages healthcare providers and Medicaid agencies to think beyond medical services, supporting team-based care with family representation and focusing on children’s social and emotional development.


05.15.19

InCK and MOM Support Improved Care Delivery for Children

On February 8, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the funding announcements for the Integrated Care for Kids Model (InCK Model) and the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model (MOM Model).


05.15.19

North Carolina Opioid Spotlight Highlights State Progress

North Carolina has fought the opioid epidemic with an array of public and private sector initiatives.


03.25.19

New Medicaid Briefing Series: Priority Issues for State Lawmakers

Where  the agency and its leadership sit within state government can enable or impede the Medicaid director’s authority to make critical decisions about strategy, services and budget.


02.25.19

Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Best Practices and Next Steps

Colorado has addressed the opioid epidemic with an array of public and private initiatives.


01.23.19

Leading-Edge Practices for Ending the Opioid Epidemic

Pennsylvania has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, with prescription opioid-related overdoses growing in the early 2000s—and, more recently, high volumes of heroin and fentanyl coursing through the Commonwealth, given its strategic location as a major transportation hub.