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A Child is a Child: A Snapshot of Children's Health in California

WEBWe are proud to honor Latine Heritage Month this November 2023 in partnership with the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, Latino Health Access, and Abriendo Puertas by highlighting the 4,616,456 or over half (52%) of California’s 9 million children who are Latine.. The 2023 A Child is a Child: Latine Children’s Health Snapshot can help …

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Youth-Centered Strategies for Hope, Healing and Health

WEBThe Children’s Partnership (TCP) and the National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) have just released a report, Youth-Centered Strategies for Hope, Healing and Health, from the Hope, …

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Community Health Workers Advancing Child Health …

WEBOur newest brief, Community Health Workers Advancing Child Health Equity, focuses on the community health workforce as a community-led, anti-racist solution in health care delivery for children. …

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Addressing Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health …

WEBThis report delves into the historical and escalating mental health needs of very young children, the current landscape, and the ways in which California, local agencies, and communities must bolster their …

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New Report Finds Child Health Coverage in California …

WEBChildren Now is a non-partisan, whole-child research, policy development and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting children’s health, education and well-being in California. The organization also …

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Healthy Mouth, Healthy Start: Improving Oral Health for Young …

WEBGood oral health is critical to children’s ability to grow up healthy and succeed in school and life. Yet, nationally and in California, tooth decay ranks as the most common chronic disease and unmet health care need of children. Poor oral health can lead to unnecessary pain and suffering, diminished academic outcomes, and poorer …

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Children’s Health Equity Opportunities in the 2023-34 …

WEBCreate the Health Equity Racial Justice Fund to help address health inequality among California’s Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, multiracial and other children of color. Maintain and expand …

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Racism and Child Health

WEBOur first brief in the series, Policing and the Harmful Impacts on Child Wellbeing, offers a look at how the systemic racism that permeates U.S. law enforcement harms the health of BIPOC children.Whether direct or indirect, exposure to police violence triggers a stress response in children that leads to lasting adverse consequences from mental health and …

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Healthy Mind, Healthy Future

WEBThe Children’s Partnership commissioned a 27 question survey on immigrant children’s and families’ access to care and overall health. It was distributed to health care providers across California; 151 individuals who provide and coordinate health care services completed the survey. Survey respondents represented counties across the …

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Improving Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role …

WEBThis issue brief describes how Electronic Record Systems (ERS) – electronic health records, personal health records, and similar technology solutions that facilitate the management, sharing, and use of information – can benefit children in foster care, and the systems that serve them. The brief profiles state and local ERS efforts for the

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Racial Justice in Children's Oral Health

WEBGood oral health is linked to long-term overall health and academic opportunity, however, caries–or tooth decay–remain the most common chronic disease among children in the United States, despite being preventable. In California, tooth decay is a significant public health problem, especially for young children.

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Advancing School-Based Mental Health in California

WEBPrevention and early intervention of mental health issues is critical to ensuring student success – students who are experiencing socioemotional, behavioral or psychological distress will struggle to engage with the curriculum and maintain positive relationships with peers and adults. We know that when children are given the proper …

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ADVANCING SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH IN …

WEBThe California School-Based Health Alliance recently created the Student Health Index as a Relative Needs Assessment to identify marginalized communities in California that are in need of a student health center based on a combination of features. According to the Student Health Index, it is “the first comprehensive analysis to show the counties,

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CARING FOR KIDS THE RIGHT WAY: Key Components of …

WEBgaps in health outcomes and delivery of care in the state.2 With three-fourths of Medi-Cal children being children of color, Medi-Cal has an opportunity to play a critical role in advancing child health equity by cultivating a whole-person health care approach for all Medi-Cal children that integrates their health care with social support needs and

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Contextualizing BIPOC Youth Mental Health

WEBJuly is National BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, recognizing the unique experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and other underrepresented communities with regard to mental health due to generations of marginalization and systemic oppression.In light of the past year, with a devastating global pandemic and …

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Peer-to-Peer California High School Pilot Demonstration

WEBPeer support is an essential evidence-based strategy for supporting mental health with more than 80 years of proven results. Peer-to-peer programs in schools are a multi-benefit solution to the youth mental health crisis that addresses the broken medical model, focuses on prevention, enables culturally responsive support, mitigates the provider shortage, …

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