The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative is an innovative effort to expand low-income children’s health insurance in this California county. This issue brief describes changes in children's medical care and other outcomes during the most recent three years that they had stable...

The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI) is an innovative effort to expand children’s health insurance coverage. Outreach and application assistance for Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids-three health insurance programs available to children in families with...

This comprehensive study found that Santa Clara County’s Healthy Kids program--a health insurance program for children in low and middle income families--is closing a major gap in health care for county children. Since it was launched in 2001, Healthy Kids has insured over 25,000 children in...

The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI), launched in January 2001, seeks to extend health coverage to all uninsured children in that California county. This issue brief measures the effect of the initiative on enrollment in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, the two major state...