Primer: Financing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care
This primer includes descriptions of the foster care population and their special health care needs, the types of out-of-home placements children may experience, a synopsis of the funding, federal legislation and key players of the child welfare system; important elements in providing comprehensive health care for children in foster care; steps that federal and state officials have taken to improve the system of health care for children in foster care and examples of programs and models of providing health care services for children in foster care.
