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National Health Policy Forum. 2002. Child and family health initiatives in the Bay Area. Washington, DC: National Health Policy Forum, 28 pp. (Site visit report)

Annotation: This site visit report discusses the initiatives taken by three California counties to expand health coverage to uninsured children and families who do not qualify for publicly sponsored programs. The programs involved are Alliance Family Care in Alameda County, Healthy Kids in Santa Clara County, and Healthy Kids in San Francisco County. The report summarizes the programs' key features, describes the state's uninsured children, reviews the current financing mechanisms that pay for their care, and identifies recent federal and state activities that could affect these county initiatives. Contents also include endnotes, the site visit agenda, a list of participants, and biographical sketches of speakers, panelists, and participants.

Keywords: Access to health care, California, Child health, County programs, Family centered services, Model programs, Program descriptions, State children's health insurance programs

Georgetown University Child Development Center. 2000. Site visit report: Assessment and Consultation Team—Riverside County, California. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, 24 pp. (Meeting the health care needs of children in the foster care system)

Annotation: This report focuses on an approach under which licensed mental health clinicians from the Riverside County, California Department of Mental Health are outstationed at Department of Social Services offices throughout the county to initiate the process of obtaining coordinated mental health services for children receiving child welfare services. The report is divided into the following sections: (1) overview of the Assessment and Consultation Team, (2) background and context, (3) the Assessment and Consultation Team (ACT), and (4) learnings. The report also contains two appendices: (1) site visit interviews, and (2) ACT documents available from the Georgetown University Child Development Center. [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: California, Case studies, Child mental health, Child protective services, Child welfare, County programs, Foster care, Mental health professionals, Program evaluation, Social services

Lee E, ed. 1962. Proceedings: Institute on Administration in Crippled Children Services: Berkeley, California, June 24-29, 1962. Berkeley, CA: University of California, School of Public Health, California State Department of Public Health, and U.S. Children's Bureau, 126 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss administrative problems in crippled children services (CCS), selling CCS programs, county government and barriers to selling health programs, selling a program in the legislature, program administrator's commodity, legal aspects of standards for medical care goods and services in the Crippled Children Program, standard setting in medical care programs, expenditure controls in a medical care program, estimating program trends, budget presentation, administrative costs in a CCS program, case management for CCS, the responsibility of administration for case management, the role of the public health nurse in case management of CCS cases, supervision and training of personnel, analysis and improvement in health service offices, and evaluation in CCS programs.

Keywords: Administration, Budgeting, Case management, Child health programs, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, County government, Personnel, Program evaluation, Public health nurses, Standards, State legislatures

Curry HI. 1927. Public child-caring work in certain counties of Minnesota, North Carolina, and New York. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 96 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no. 173)
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