This issue brief highlights the communications strategies that the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s state-based Finish Line grantees in Colorado, Ohio, and Wisconsin are using to keep children’s health coverage on their state’s policy agendas.

Mental illness, like any health concern, can disrupt the ability to work. Less than 20 percent of people who receive publicly funded mental health services are employed, although research consistently demonstrates that, with the right supports, 40-60 percent of people with serious mental illness...