Voices for Utah Children Articles
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Families living with health insurance, and without: New storybook highlights why all Utah children need health insurance Throughout the pandemic, health insurance has been a critical lifeline for Utah families to stay healthy and avoid medical debt....
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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What happened to Coverage for All Kids this Session?
This Session, one of Voices for Utah Children’s top priority bills received very little public attention despite its behind-the-scenes activity. Below we will unpack what happened, lessons we learned, and what we believe the path forward should be so...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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New Report on the Important Role of School-Based Health Services Across Utah!
School Health Services Overview: Promoting Student Health, Wellness and Success Schools play a vital role in helping children and families stay healthy. Over the past year, Utah schools experienced a heightened focus on their role in promoting student...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Why is Utah Restricting Medicaid Benefits for Parents? Your Comments are (Still) Needed!
Let's Change this Discriminatory Policy! In 2002, long before the Affordable Care Act, Utah decided to offer limited health benefits to low-income adults, who otherwise could not get health insurance. To help pay for these benefits, the state made the...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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NEW REPORT: Covering Uninsured Kids Will Save Utah Millions Every Year
Utah has 82,000 uninsured children, according to the most recent Census data, which means an estimated 8.3% of children in Utah do not have health insurance. Utah currently ranks 46th in the nation for insured children. When it comes to addressing this...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Thousands of Utahns are uninsured during pregnancy or after childbirth. A lack of health insurance coverage is associated with short and long-term health challenges, including postpartum depression and anxiety. In Utah, approximately 54 new moms every...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Utah KIDS COUNT Data Links Publication, July 2021
Utah is seeing an ever-increasing proportion of our parents in the workforce. This Data Link provides data on families and working parents by county and provides policy recommendations in the workplace. Utah Kids Count Data Links: July 2021
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- Author: Martín C. Muñoz
- Category: Updates & Blog
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American Rescue Plan: Now is the Time to Invest in Health Coverage, Care and Equity for All Kids!
Last week the Utah Legislature accepted $1.7 billion (yes, billion) in federal COVID relief funds through the American Rescue Plan Act. Legislators have stated plans to allocate these funds towards Utah’s biggest challenges and opportunities. As a...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Coverage for All Utah Kids: A Look at the Benefits and Estimated Costs
When kids have health insurance, they experience many short and long-term benefits: better health outcomes, improvements in their educational achievements-- even higher wages in in adulthood. We know from a significant body of research that kids do...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Children's Mental Health During COVID-19: What have we learned, where do we go from here?
“It feels like we’re in a game of battle ship… and we’re the ships” Recently, Voices for Utah Children hosted a virtual panel discussion on children’s mental health during COVID-19. Our panel of experts came from the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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As Utahns return their ballots and engage with candidates, we want to make sure all Utahns are informed and understand where our future elected officials stand on issues central to Utah kids and families. Here are some questions we are asking- and will...
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- Author: Questions?
- Category: Updates & Blog
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New Data Finds Number of Utah Uninsured Children Increasing at Alarming Rate
Analysis shows 39% increase in the number of uninsured Utah children between 2016 and 2019 An estimated 82,000 Utah children were uninsured last year, a number that has increased by 39 percent since 2016, according to a new report released by the...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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More Utah Children Lost Health Insurance in 2019, According to Latest National Survey Last week, the Census Bureau released its annual health insurance data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The alarming top line news is that children’s health...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Childhood Obesity, Social Determinants and COVID-19
Part 2 in a series on Utah's new KIDS COUNT childhood obesity indicator In the context of COVID-19, it is especially critical to highlight the underlying structural and systemic indicators behind Utah’s childhood obesity rates. The COVID-19 crisis has...
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- Author: Terry Haven
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Part 1 in a series on Utah's new KIDS COUNT childhood obesity indicator The annual KIDS COUNT report now includes a new measure of childhood obesity. This new indicator looks at the percent of teens ages 10 to 17 who are overweight or obese. Utah...
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- Author: Terry Haven
- Category: Updates & Blog
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What Does the Coronavirus Mean for Families’ Access to Health Care?
A Look at How Utah Programs are Responding to the Coronavirus and Additional Actions Needed (UPDATED with new information about CHIP!) From prenatal care to childhood vaccinations, the Coronavirus is disrupting access to health care for countless Utah...
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- Author: Questions?
- Category: Updates & Blog
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How Will The Coronavirus Impact Immigrants In Our State?
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our communities in so many ways. Unfortunately, for many immigrant families this has disproportionately created more obstacles in their lives. Mixed-status and undocumented immigrants were largely left out of the...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices for Utah Children Statement: COVID-19 and How the State Of Utah Should Protect Families
On March 11, 2020, Governor Gary Herbert took the necessary step of declaring a state of emergency in Utah in order to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As the state moves forward with immediate activity to address the health implications of...
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- Author: Moe Hickey
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Let’s Keep All Families Covered: New Report Finds Number of Uninsured Latino Children in Utah on the Rise 2020 Utah Legislature Made Strides to Help All Children Stay Covered Decades of progress improving health coverage rates for Latino children has...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Utah Legislature Funds to Keep Kids Covered!
Voices for Utah Children celebrates the Legislature's support to Keep Utah Kids Covered and fund 12-month continuous eligibility for children on Medicaid, age 0-5. We want to express our gratitude and many thanks to Senator Luz Escamilla and to...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
