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Ensure Youth in Foster Care Receive Whole-Health Care and Support

NCYL's Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (RHEP) aims to normalize, support, and promote the bodily autonomy and healthy sexual development of ...

Foster Care | National Center for Youth Law

Our Success & Impact · Our Initiatives · Preserve Families and Reduce Entries into Foster Care · Ensure Youth in Foster Care Receive Whole-Health Care and Support.

Levels of Care (Elevated Needs, Medical, and Treatment Foster ...

Reach out to the youth's SMHK assigned care manager to request assistance in acquiring current medical and behavioral health records for the ...

Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care

The technical assistance has two components: “Getting started with QI” resources to help state Medicaid and child welfare staff and their QI partners get ...

Comprehensive Health Care for Children in Foster Care

Because the majority of families involved with child protective services struggle with poverty, they have often depended on hospital clinics with an ...

Health-Care Coverage for Children and Youth in Foster Care and After

While States are not permitted to use. Federal child welfare funds to pay for medical expenses of children in care or who have left care due to achieving ...

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Rule to Strengthen Protections ...

Final Rule Brings the Child Welfare System Closer to Better Supporting Youth with Resources and Services that Meet their Needs.

Youth | Child Welfare Information Gateway

Youth served by the child welfare system have unique needs as they navigate adolescence, grow into their identities, and approach adulthood.

Steel Legislation Strengthening Mental Health Services for Foster ...

... ensuring children in foster care have ... health service providers so children in foster care receive individualized mental health support.

Young Adults Formerly in Foster Care: Challenges and Solutions

When youth "age out" of the child welfare system with limited connections or without the support of positive, caring adults, they may have an increased risk of ...

Improving the lives of foster children through evidenced-based ...

... ensure that all children in care receive the services to which they are entitled. ... Mental health need and access to mental health services by youths involved ...

Foster Youth Mental Health Policy Brief - NFYI

More than 390,000 children are in the U.S. foster care system,1 not including former foster youth who have aged out but still receive governmental support.

Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care ...

A2. Develop common identifiers for children, youth, and families receiving services from both child welfare and Medicaid to support data matching ...

Access in Brief: Behavioral Health Services for Youth in Foster Care

Low-income children and adolescents who have been removed from their homes are automatically eligible for Medicaid on the basis of their ...

HHS Releases Guidance to Help Prevent Homelessness for Youth ...

The FYI program is an important tool communities have to ensure housing stability for youth who have been in or are aging out of foster care.

How Jurisdictions Can Ensure Consistent Health Care Access for ...

Children in foster care are one of the nation's most vulnerable populations. These children, who often have a complex array of physical and behavioral ...

Steel Legislation Strengthens Mental Health Support for Foster Youth

... Health Support Act to ensure increased mental health support for children in foster care. Steel aims to have her legislation included in the ...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions ...

Protect LGBTQI+ youth in foster care from abuse and mistreatment and ensure they have the services they need to thrive. Expand access to legal ...

Medical and Behavioral Health Planning – DSS Manuals - MO.gov

Medical planning for children in out-of-home care is a necessary service to ensure that children receive the medical care they need. ... foster youth receiving ...

Health & Wellness - NFYI

Many of the children and adolescents who enter foster care have complicated and severe medical, mental, oral, and psychosocial health issues.