The HCFO program disseminates grantee findings through grantee publications and HCFO-produced issue or findings briefs. Journal citations and grantee reports are also available in our grant findings database. As a new tool, we now categorize these results by topic area as grantee publications relate to their HCFO-funded research.
In response to inquiries about various aspects of HCFO’s grantmaking and in order to monitor the program for our own growth and planning, we collect and monitor a variety of data. New statistics about our grantmaking are available for 2004 at Inside HCFO: Numbers You Always Wondered About.
The California Health Policy Forum (CAHPF) provides an independent platform for education, idea sharing, and conversations among legislative and executive branch health policy staff about the complex and vast array of health issues facing the state today. Modeled after the National Health Policy Forum, CAHPF seeks to inform the public policy-making process through a series of briefing sessions that feature federal and other state as well as California speakers. As an additional resource the Health Policy Guide provides evidence-based, peer-reviewed policy guidance and resources to support advocacy and decision-making at the state and local levels for over 150 policy topics.A distinguishing feature of the California Health Policy Forum (CAHPF) is their partnerships with policy experts in Washington, DC, and around the county. AcademyHealth is proud to announce this new partnership.
A new report from the Urban Institute, Estimating Financial Support for Kinship Caregivers finds that children in kinship care, whose living situations make them ineligible for foster care payments, have surprisingly low levels of receipt for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) child-only benefits, often their only source of financial assistance.This work compliments HCFO-funded research by the University of Colorado’s Stephen Berman, M.D., and Sara Carpenter, M.D. These researchers found that a lack of health insurance, poverty, poor health status, low level of caregiver education, and disability are some of the factors that contribute to the lack of adequate health care for children in foster and kinship care. A HCFO findings brief, Children in Foster Care and Kinship Care at Risk for Inadequate Health Care Coverage and Access examines these issues in further depth.
