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05-06-2008 Over 30,000 Ohio Children Denied Health Coverage by Bush Administration Directive A new report issued by the Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) says that a directive issued by the Bush Administration in August 2007 has cost more than 30,000 Ohio children the opportunity to receive affordable health care coverage.

04-23-2008 Voices for Ohio’s Children Briefs Ohio Leaders on SCHIP

04-20-2008 Covering the Uninsured Week

04-03-2008 Juvenile Justice Initiative Applauds DYS Class Action Settlement

03-28-2008 Proposed Rules on Cost-Sharing and Benefits

03-27-2008 Strickland Announces Major Workforce Initiative In order to help meet his goal of dramatically expanding the level of training and education of Ohio workers, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today signed an executive order that reassigns key workforce programs to the Department of Development and the Ohio Board of Regents.

03-21-2008 Daybreak Breaks Ground

02-04-2008 President's Budget Ignores Ohio's Priorities "Our state's leaders know that investing in children and families is prudent, especially in tough economic times," said Amy N. Swanson, executive director of Voices for Ohio's Children. "In contrast, in his FY 2009 Federal Budget, President Bush ignored Ohio's priorities and turned his back on Ohio's children.�

02-02-2008 Voices for Ohio's Children Receives National Funding The David and Lucile Packard Foundation selected Voices for Ohio's Children through a competitive nationwide selection process to receive one of just eight Finish Line Project grants. From 2008-2010, Voices for Ohio's Children will take best advantage of our state's favorable children's health policy climate to cross the finish line by securing health coverage for every Ohio child.

01-23-2008 State Children's Health Insurance Program Expansion Falls to President's Veto President Bush's veto puts at risk the health coverage of the 145,000 Ohio children who live in families with incomes less than 200% of the federal poverty level and are currently covered by SCHIP. The action also limits Ohio's ability to expand SCHIP to cover an estimated 35,000 uninsured children living between 200%-300% of the federal poverty level.

01-23-2008 Voices Juvenile Justice Initiative Releases Framework for Change Independent fact finder Fred Cohen issued an investigative report sustaining the complaints of a broad class action suit against Ohio’s Department of Youth Services (ODYS). In response to the Cohen Report’s call for change, the Voices for Ohio’s Children Juvenile Justice Initiative released a report titled “A Model Ohio Department of Youth Services Care Continuum: A Framework for Transforming the Juvenile Justice System.”

01-14-2008 What’s Ahead for Health Coverage in 2008?

01-01-2008 Where Are We with SB 10?

12-21-2007 Bush Administration Denies Health Care to 35,000 Ohio Children When Congress returns to Washington in January, we need its members to fix this problem by passing a moratorium on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines and overriding the President's second veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP)

12-21-2007 Congress Extends SCHIP Program

12-18-2007 Governor Establishes Executive Medicaid Management Administration

11-15-2007 Juvenile Justice Initiative Educational Session

10-18-2007 CCF Fact Sheet: $83,000 SCHIP Family Doesn’t Exist The truth about who’s eligible for State Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage has become blurred in the debate to reauthorize SCHIP, with the mythical $83,000 SCHIP family making headlines. The misleading contention that SCHIP covers children at this income level leaves the false impression that SCHIP is a program that no longer focuses on lower income children or that SCHIP reauthorization would turn it into such a program.

10-18-2007 Voices for Ohio’s Children Thanks Legislators and Advocates; Regrets Failure to Override SCHIP Veto Today, despite the overwhelming support of Ohio’s legislative leaders and the American people, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Thirteen of Ohio’s U.S. House of Representatives members, Republicans and Democrats, voted for the override, while four—Representatives Boehner, Chabot, Jordan and Schmidt—did not.

10-09-2007 Voices for Ohio’s Children Says Thank You Voices for Ohio’s Children launches newspaper advertisements across Ohio to say thank-you to bipartisan leaders who support the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The advertisements feature Emily Demko, a three year-old from Albany, Ohio, who would benefit from SCHIP’s reauthorization.

10-05-2007 Juvenile Justice Initiative and Frances Strickland Visit Lighthouse Youth Center--Paint Creek Voices’ partners and staff visited the Lighthouse Youth Center-Paint Creek (formerly Paint Creek Youth Center) which is a privately owned and managed residential rehabilitation center for male adolescents ages 15-18 in Southern Ohio.

10-03-2007 Voices for Ohio’s Children Condemns SCHIP Veto Voices for Ohio’s Children condemned President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Both Senator Sherrod Brown and twelve of Ohio’s U.S. House of Representatives members, Republicans and Democrats, supported the bill in Congress.

09-27-2007 Voices for Ohio’s Children Applauds House Passage of SCHIP Reauthorization

09-24-2007 Transitional Youth Project Committee Meetings The Cuyahoga County Transitional Youth Project group has formed two sub-committees: Youth Space and Policy and System Change.

08-13-2007 Congress Debates SCHIP Reauthorization

08-13-2007 Update on Medicaid Citizenship Verification Activities

08-06-2007 Senator Brown and Governor Strickland Support SCHIP

07-30-2007 Transitional Youth Project Holds Final Meeting

07-27-2007 Briefing with National and State Leaders on SCHIP Reauthorization Ohio House Congressional staff members, advocates and the media participated in a statewide conference call on Wednesday, July 25th.

07-25-2007 Youth Forums, DMC and Ohio

07-18-2007 Governor Strickland Urges Federal Legislators to Support SCHIP Reauthorization Governor Sends Letter to Ohio Congressional Delegation Urging Support of SCHIP Legislation

07-03-2007 Adam Walsh Act (SB 10) Update

06-29-2007 Ohio Leaders Close the Gap in Children’s Health Insurance Ohio’s elected officials demonstrated unprecedented bipartisan support for the health of Ohio’s children. The 2008-2009 Ohio state budget will make health coverage available to all uninsured children in Ohio.

06-06-2007 Voices for Ohio’s Children Juvenile Justice Initiative Focus Group

05-08-2007 Great Progress for Children's Health Coverage

05-08-2007 Overwhelming Majority Support Providing Health Care Access for All of Ohio’s Uninsured Children The Campaign to Protect Ohio’s Future released poll results today showing that 87 percent of Ohio voters believe that providing health care access for all of Ohio’s children should be a spending priority of the State of Ohio, and nearly 5 out of 10 voters believe it should be a “top spending priority.

04-24-2007 Key Message Training

03-14-2007 Statement in Response to the Governor’s State of the State Address

03-07-2007 Voices for Ohio's Children Adds Two Child Advocates

02-06-2007 Bush Budget Proposal Wrong For Ohio, Wrong For Kids

01-08-2007 2007 Federal Outlook and Budget Timetable

12-18-2006 Politically possible to improve kids' health Mary Wachtel's Op-ed in Akron Beacon Journal today

11-29-2006 Closing the Gap for Ohio's Children and Families Materials from the November, 2006 Covering Kids and Families Conference.