Center for Adolescent Health and the Law

Center for Adolescent Health & the Law

promoting the health of adolescents and young adults and their access to comprehensive health care

Implementing the ACA: How Much Will It Help Vulnerable Adolescents & Young Adults?

Implementing the ACA: How Much Will It Help Vulnerable Adolescents & Young Adults? English A, Scott J, Park MJ. Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Adolescent Health & the Law; and San Francisco, CA: National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center, 2014.

Filed Under: Financial Access & Health Insurance, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: ACA, Criminal Justice, Financial Access, Foster Care, Homeless Youth, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid, Vulnerable Youth

How Much Will the ACA Help Adolescents and Young Adults?

February 28, 2014

Invited presentation on the Affordable Care Act and vulnerable groups of adolescents and young adults — including young people involved in foster care and the juvenile and criminal justice systems and homeless youth — at the UNC Minority Health Conference in Chapel Hill, NC.

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Filed Under: Affordable Care Act, Presentations Tagged With: 2014, ACA, Criminal Justice, Foster Care, Homeless Youth, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid, Vulnerable Youth

Implementing the ACA: How Much Will It Help Vulnerable Adolescents & Young Adults

November 13, 2013

Invited presentation on the implications of the Affordable Care Act for vulnerable groups of adolescents at the federal Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council.

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Filed Under: Financial Access & Health Insurance, Presentations Tagged With: 2013, ACA, Foster Care, Homeless Youth, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid, Vulnerable Youth

Health Care for Homeless Youth: Policy Options for Improving Access (2008)

The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, in collaboration with the Public Policy Analysis Center for Middle Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adults Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF Policy Center) has produced Health Care for Homeless Youth: Policy Options for Improving Access.

The issue brief describes homeless youth, a small but highly vulnerable population with significant health care needs, and the substantial financial and consent and confidentiality barriers these young people experience when trying to access health care services. It explains how health care access can be improved for this population, by describing how Medicaid and SCHIP currently reach adolescents and young adults, and how these two programs can be expanded to help homeless youth. The brief emphasizes the important opportunity presented by options available to the states, such as the Foster Care Independence Act, HIFA waivers, and Ribicoff youth, and summarizes the policy options that can best improve access to health care for homeless youth. It also discusses state minor consent laws and how they could be used to make health care services more accessible to homeless youth.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, health care reform, Homeless Youth, Medicaid, Young Adults

Youth Leaving Foster Care and Homeless Youth: Ensuring Access to Health Care

Youth Leaving Foster Care and Homeless Youth: Ensuring Access to Health Care. English A. Temple Law Review. 2006;79:439-459.

Filed Under: Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Financial Access, Foster Care, Homeless Youth, Medicaid, Young Adults

Confidential Health Services for Vulnerable and Disconnected Youth

Confidential Health Services for Vulnerable and Disconnected Youth. English A. NOAPPP Network. Vol 24, No. 4, 2004.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Consent and Confidentiality, Homeless Youth, Vulnerable Youth

Health Care Access for Unaccompanied Youth

Health Care Access for Unaccompanied Youth. Center for Adolescent Health & the Law. In: Julianelle P, Mabe M, Reeg B, Wolfe K. Alone Without a Home: A State-by-State Review of Laws Affecting Unaccompanied Youth. Washington, DC: National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and National Network for Youth, 2003.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, CHIP, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Homeless Youth, Medicaid, Minor Consent

Health Care for the Adolescent Alone: A Legal Landscape

Health Care for the Adolescent Alone: A Legal Landscape. English A. In: Blustein J, Levine C, Dubler NN, eds. The Adolescent Alone: Decision Making in Health Care in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 78-79.

Filed Under: Book Chapters, Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Publications Tagged With: Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Homeless Youth, Medicaid, Minor Consent

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State Minor Consent Laws: A Summary, 3rd Edition

The highly acclaimed 3rd edition of State Minor Consent Laws: A Summary is available!

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Resources for the Affordable Care Act

The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law and the National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center (NAHIC) have published a series of issue briefs explaining the implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for adolescents and young adults.

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