Links to Other Resources

Use the directory below to find links to other resources pertaining to the improvement of financing of care for children and youth with special health needs.

Healthcare Financing Advocacy/Legal Aid Resources at the National Level

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

ACORN campaigns for the rights of lower- and middle- income Americans.

Alliance for Health Reform

The Alliance for Health Reform is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization that provides information on health reform in a number of formats to journalists, elected officials and their staffs, and other shapers of public opinion. Under Resources, the site provides health policy links for numerous groups and agencies, including business and employer groups, consumer groups, health professional groups, labor unions, and think tanks and foundations. In the Newsroom section, advocates can find experts in various specialties and their contact information.

Campaign for Better Health Care

The Campaign for Better Health is a partnership of the leading health advocates and organizations who have come together to provide better health opportunities for more Americans.

Center on Budget Policies and Priorities

Center for Health Care Rights

The Center for Health Care Rights is a non-profit health care consumer advocacy organization serving consumers through a combination of direct service programs and policy level advocacy.

Center for Policy Alternatives: State of the States

The Child Advocate

The Child Advocate is devoted to children and their parents as well as professionals who work with them. "The Child Advocate Network is a national network and all resources and contributions go directly to supporting children, families and professionals through the website and Internet support. The professional staff is entirely volunteer…"

Children's Defense Fund

The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Children’s Health Fund

The Children’s Health Fund is committed to provide health care to the nations most medically undeserved children through the development and support and support of innovative primary care medical programs

Children’s Miracle Network

Children's Partnership

Child Welfare League of America

Community Catalyst

Community Catalyst is a national, nonprofit health care advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening the voice of the health care consumer and building stronger state and regional networks to bring about health policy and system change. The organization works with state, local, and grassroots consumer groups in over 30 states to expand health care access, improve health care quality, and preserve health care resources. Community Catalyst also provides a range of capacity-building services to consumer health advocacy organizations, including policy analysis, legal expertise, community organizing, organizational development, and media outreach.

Community Voices

Health Care for the Underserved.

Cover the Uninsured

Cover the Uninsured provides useful information for those working to reduce the ranks of the uninsured. The site includes a story bank of individuals who have suffered because they lack insurance, a databank of charts on insurance trends, a feature that tracks legislation designed to increase access to health coverage, selected resources for those seeking health coverage, and a glossary of terms.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that examines employee benefit trends and economic security. Their programs include policy forums, round tables, briefings, testimony, interviews, and speeches. Major studies cover Social Security reform, individual investment education and results, health insurance coverage, and pension design and investment trends. Major surveys include the annual Retirement Confidence Survey and the Health Confidence Survey.

Families USA

Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, we have earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for over 20 years.

The Institute for Health Freedom

The Institute for Health Freedom is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center. Through its research, publications, and public policy debates, the Institute provides a forum for exchanging ideas about health freedom. The Institute works with scholars and policy experts in the areas of economics, health care, law, philosophy, and the sciences to foster public debate.

Insure Kids Now!

Insure Kids Now! is a national campaign to link the nation's 10 million uninsured children–from birth to age 18–to free and low-cost health insurance.

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured was established by the Kaiser Family Foundation to improve access to care for low-income Americans.

National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC)

NACC is dedicated to providing high quality legal representation for children. Our mission is to improve the lives of children and families through legal advocacy. The NACC provides training and technical assistance to attorneys
and other professionals, serves as a public information and professional referral center, and engages in public policy and legislative advocacy.

The National Coalition on Health Care

The National Coalition on Health Care is a national, nonpartisan coalition working to improve America's health care. The Coalition is comprised of businesses, labor unions, religious groups, primary care providers, and
educators.

National Health Law Program

The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal
services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.

National Organization for Rare Diseases

National Patient Advocate Foundation

The National Patient Advocate Foundation offers information on the Patients' Bill of Rights, Health Care Financing Administration Reform Issues, and Prescription Drug Benefit.

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America's pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that's right for them.

Public Citizen

Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy

RxAssist

RxAssist helps patients obtain free or low-cost medications and learn more about safety net programs for the uninsured.

State Coverage Initiatives (SCI)

The SCI program is a national initiative that works with states to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance expansions, as well as to improve the availability and affordability of health care coverage. SCI works with states to help them expand coverage to working families, build on employer-based health insurance, and foster collaboration among stakeholders. SCI also provides a variety of hands-on support services that are confidential, nonpartisan,
and free of charge.

The Universal Health Care Action Network

UHCAN! is a group of individuals and organizations committed to achieving health coverage for all Americans. Their Web site provides resources and shares information regarding the development of strategies for health care
justice from the consumer's point of view.