Voices for Utah Children Articles
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Uninsured Rates High for Hispanic Children
Utah has Highest Uninsured Rate for Hispanic Children in the Nation Every child in Utah should have a chance to succeed. When it comes to setting up a child for success, few things matter more than good health. It starts when their mothers get prenatal...
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Using Pay for Success to Finance Nurse Home Visiting
Pre-term and low birthweight infants face significant risks for medical and developmental disabilities which are expensive to government and private entities throughout a child’s life. Nurse home visiting, in which nurses and peer counselors provide...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
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Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is a voluntary evidenced-based community health program that provides ongoing home visits (from pregnancy through age 2 of the child) from a registered nurse to low-income, first time mothers to provide the care and...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
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New Report on States’ Oversight of Health Plan Network Adequacy
The consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commissioner released a report on state approaches to regulating and monitoring the adequacy of health plan provider networks. The report, made possible thanks to a generous grant...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
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A Two-Generation Strategy: Healthy Parents and Healthy Kids
Healthy and financially secure families are critical in helping end the cycle of intergenerational poverty. However, low-income families struggle to obtain health coverage that can provide the access to care and the financial protection that they need....
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- Author: Terry Haven
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What's Still Eating Utah's General Fund?
How Unfunded Earmarks Are Undermining the Budget Process and Affecting Utah Families and Children Utah’s unrestricted General Fund continues to decline as a stable and reliable revenue source due to a nearly 1200% increase in earmarks from FY 2005 to...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
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Attendance and the Early Grades: A Two-Generation Issue
Chronic Absence is a Two-Generation Problem Policies that help parents keep kids in school, such as family leave policies and effective transportation systems; coupled with programs that help the child, such as attention to bullying; and improved...
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- Author: Terry Haven
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The Healthy Utah Poll was commissioned by a group of Utah civic groups interested in gauging support for Governor Herbert’s Healthy Utah plan. The poll was conducted by Dan Jones & Associates on a sample of 623 Utah voters during May and June, 2014....
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
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The Economics of the Healthy Utah Plan: A Preliminary Analysis
This economic analysis of the Healthy Utah Plan was funded by Voices for Utah Children and completed by Sven E. Wilson, PhD. The Healthy Utah plan is the governor's proposal to use Medicaid expansion funds to provide health insurance to people who are...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
- Category: Updates & Blog
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A Two-Generation Strategy: Right from the Start
Download and print the issue brief here: A Two Generation Strategy: Right from the Start This is the second in a series of issue briefs focused on two-generation strategies to reduce poverty supported by Ascend: the Aspen Institute. The first issue...
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- Author: Terry Haven
- Category: Updates & Blog
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A Two-Generation Approach to Ending Poverty in Utah
The research is clear that poverty is the single greatest threat to a child's well-being. Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to be poor as adults, while those who grow up in more affluent families are more likely to be affluent later in...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Current Utah KIDS COUNT Data Book How are kids doing in your county? How are kids doing nationwide? Measures of Child Well-Being, 2015 Previous Utah KIDS COUNT Data Books 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 KIDS COUNT Policy Reports Every Kid Needs a Family:...
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