Children's Health Insurance Resource Library

Listed below are a variety of resources to help better understand Children’s Health Insurance and our work regarding this initiative.

From AASA:

• Available Now: A CDF/AASA school-based health enrollment toolkit, "Insure All Children." Visit www.insureallchildren.org to explore the toolkit. (August 2016)
  

• Student Leadership and Governance: Insure our Children , Ensure Our Future (Fall 2013)  

•  Video: Engaging Schools in Outreach to Insure All Children (26 min)
  •  The following video is from a session at the AASA 2013 National Conference on Education, featuring four superintendents as they discuss insuring all children.
   

  AASA News and Updates 

   
• External Toolkits
  •    AASA Children's Programs in the News: Children’s Health Insurance Initiative Exemplified in the The Healthy Students, Promising Futures Toolkit : The toolkit highlights Mountain View School District (Calif.) as an exemplar on how schools and health departments can collaborate to identify uninsured children and link eligible students with proper health insurance coverage. Read More (January 2016).
    • Webinar: (May 17, 2017):  "Connecting Kids to A+ Health Coverage for Back-to-School" hosted by the Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign Webinar. This webinar explores how organizations can engage schools and other education-focused groups to enroll children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). It also highlights best practices and provides tips to help make the Back-to-School enrollment season a success.Part of this webinar features the "Insure All Children" Toolkit.
      
       
     
   
•   AASA Children's Programs On the Road 
  • AASA Children's Programs On the Road: Children's Health Insurance 2015 Texas Site Visit   
   
• Press Releases
  • Department of Education Press Release: Obama Administration Encourages Schools and Districts to Enroll Students in Healthcare Coverage through School Registration (August 2016)
  •  CDF-Texas Press Release: Leading Texas Educators Tout Health Care Coverage, Access Essential to Student Learning and Performance. Transforming School Cultures to Link Uninsured Children to Coverage (October 2015) 
   
• Children's Defense Fund's Child Watch Column by Marian Wright Edelman (President of CDF) 
  •   "Keeping Children Healthy, In School, and Learning" Child Watch Column (January 2016)
    
   

  External Websites

• CDF’s Child Health Section: The Children's Defense Fund's web section on their work to ensure all children have access to child-specific health coverage that is affordable for families.
•   Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Website provides information about Medicaid and CHIP.
  •  Learn about Medicaid and Chip in your state
    
   

External Surveys and Reports

• 2011 ASPE Report: 1.2 Million Children Gain Insurance since Reauthorization of Children’s Health Program.
• A CMS survey regarding “What are your parents awareness levels , knowledge and efforts to enroll their children in health insurance.”

External Articles

•  “How Medicaid Lowers High School Dropout Rates And Leads To More College Grads,” Washington Post article (June 2014) 
  

Video Library

1.   Video: Engaging Schools in Outreach to Insure All Children (26 min)
   •  A video featuring four superintendents as they discuss insuring all children. This work was supported by a grant from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
    
2. AASA 2015 Superintendent of the Year Philip Lanoue talks about taking up the charge on a vision for healthy, well-educated children. Lanoue cites his district's engagement in the AASA/CDF school-based health insurance initiative as the district's gateway to setting performance goals on healthy students in their strategic plan. Watch video here.
3.  Healthy Children Stay in School :Superintendent. Lillian Maldonado French of Mountain View School District in Calif. highlights the impact of enrolling students in Children Health Insurance Programs.
4.   Schools: Carrying the Banner for Children and Families who need Health Insurance: Hear from a variety of school administrators why school-based health coverage outreach and enrollment works.
5.   TX Association of School Administrators Video: Learn about The Texas Association of School Administrator's partnership with the Children's Defense Fund Texas , and how the organization is helping school districts reach out to uninsured children and connect them with healthcare coverage.

Earlier Items

•  Weekly Back to School Boosters
•  2011 Connecting Kids to Coverage: 2nd National Children's Health Insurance Summit  

September 2016

Staff Contact

Sharon Adams-Taylor, Associate Executive Director
703-875-0720
sadams@aasa.org