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State Children's Insurance Program Websites

The following Websites provide authoritative information regarding the State Children's Insurance Program (SCHIP).

American Academy of Pediatrics. The American Academy of Pediatrics maintains a Website with extensive information on promoting the health of all children. Along with sections on research, professional education, and publications, the Website provides a thorough compilation of SCHIP provisions, rules, and implementation strategies; updates on the SCHIP; State approaches to the SCHIP; State-specific SCHIP data; SCHIP evaluation; information on effective outreach and enrollment efforts; and health information for parents.

Center for Law and Social Policy. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a national nonprofit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting poor persons, maintains a Website with several useful resources. Among these are an online newsletter known as the CLASP Update and a wide variety of reports and other publications that deal with subjects ranging from analysis of Federal law to legal services available for poor people. A unique service the CLASP provides is a series of audio conferences, in which participants listen on a telephone conference call to elected officials, experts, and practitioners as they discuss a specific topic.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, has a page devoted to the SCHIP. This site contains related information on State plans, enrollment, outreach, legislation, regulation and allotment notices, White House and departmental reports, and links to other government Websites that deal with other helpful subjects.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. The Treatment Improvement Exchange Website, a service of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), has a section called Special Topics, under which is a subsection called Children's Health Insurance Program. Within this subsection are publications from the CSAT and other Federal Government agencies, a variety of SCHIP resources, and several Internet links to key agencies and institutions. Website:

Information and Referral Resource Network. The Information and Referral Resource Network Website has a subsection called Social Services. This section lists agencies throughout the United States that provide human services to the general public. A wide variety of services are represented, including information and referral, social service, case management, healthcare, counseling, mental health, child care, substance abuse, domestic violence, and welfare programs.

Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration (SSA) maintains a Website with several resources on Social Security and Supplemental Security Income. The SSA Website includes information on retirement and disability benefits, electronic publications, services available for businesses, research and data, and special pages dealing with the needs and questions of immigrants, women, children, and people who speak Spanish or several other languages.

The Urban Institute. The Urban Institute has a host of articles and reports on a variety of SCHIP and related issues. From the home page, enter the Research section and review the articles under the subsection Federalism. Within this group of articles is an article called "Supplemental Security Income for Children With Disabilities: Part of the Federal Safety Net." It reviews legislative changes and the impact of these changes in supplemental security income on children and the States.