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 report addresses one particular model for school-based abstinence education: a voluntary, character-based program designed to enhance a mandatory core abstinence education component of the <I>Heritage Keepers®</I> program serving middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina....</i>

This brief summarizes key findings of the Narrative Communications Project sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This communications capacity-building grant project aimed to help state-based advocates build consensus more effectively and promote children's health insurance...

The initial findings from a one-year followup of 2,310 students participating in an evaluation of four abstinence-only education programs show that youth who participated in the programs were more supportive of abstinence than those who were not exposed to the programs. The evidence on whether...

This report addresses one particular model for school-based abstinence education: a voluntary, character-based program designed to enhance a mandatory core abstinence education component of the Heritage Keepers® program serving middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina....

Congress mandated in the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conduct an independent comprehensive study of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The evaluation was funded through the $10...

This report draws on surveys of enrollees and disenrollees in 10 states. The 10 states were selected in accordance with the legislative requirements to include (1) a high proportion of low-income uninsured children in the United States, (2) wide geographic representation (including rural and...

This report draws on surveys of enrollees and disenrollees in 10 states. The 10 states were selected in accordance with the legislative requirements to include (1) a high proportion of low-income uninsured children in the United States, (2) wide geographic representation (including rural and...