This toolkit is designed to help advocacy organizations, evaluators, and other groups collect and analyze data using the instruments and methods Mathematica used in its Consumer Voices for Coverage evaluation. It includes surveys of advocacy coalition members, interviews with policymakers, and...

This article describes lessons from Covering Kids & Families® (CKF) and covers topics such as how outreach, simplification, and coordination increase enrollment of low-income children and their families in Medicaid and SCHIP. The authors suggest that funders should consider the...

This evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s <I>Covering Kids & Families® (CKF)</I> program examined ways to improve the program and assess CKF’s effects on policy and procedures, as well as the effects of policy and procedures on coverage.

This evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Covering Kids & Families® (CKF) program examined ways to improve the program and assess CKF’s effects on policy and procedures, as well as the effects of policy and procedures on coverage.

By their nature, advocacy organizations form partnerships and alliances with others to achieve their public policy goals. Some alliances are longstanding, while others are temporary or opportunistic and may bring together groups to support a particular legislative or administrative approach or...

Health insurance coverage in New Jersey is threatened on all sides: private insurance coverage is eroding; the number of uninsured individuals is growing; and state budget pressure, combined with federal policy pressure, could lead to public insurance coverage cutbacks. This issue brief presents...

Health insurance coverage in New Jersey is threatened on all sides: private insurance coverage is eroding; the number of uninsured individuals is growing; and state budget pressure, combined with federal policy pressure, could lead to public insurance coverage cutbacks. This issue brief presents...