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This brief offers a variety of strategies that policymakers and advocates can use to advance racial equity in maternal mental health. It offers many effective models from communities across the country. While many of these success stories are about broad health issues, they contain lessons that can be applied to maternal mental health policy.
Mental and behavioral health supports often did not meet the need, particularly for people living in households with low incomes. Now, the gaps are widening, especially for people of color. As inequities increase, gaps in services will follow.
This brief contains framing, analysis, and recommendations for the development of high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs. Guided by an equity focus, these strategies can help to bolster the outcomes for individuals and communities that have been traditionally left out of apprenticeships.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act prohibits states from terminating SNAP benefits under the three-month time limit for adults who are unemployed or underemployed and don’t have children or a documented disability. However, there is more that states need to do to ensure that people do not lose access to nutrition benefit.
The United States should prioritize the wellbeing of young children in our laws and policies. Yet the current administration has been indifferent to—and even motivated by—the harmful consequences of its immigration policy priorities for up to 7.5 million young children in immigrant families across the country.
The COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak is testing our health and public health systems, our national response to an economic slowdown and potential recession, and our government’s overall capacity to respond to a crisis.
This paper provides an overview of how history and the response to the opioid overdose epidemic play a part in widening health inequities, and what we need to do.
This profile provides an overview of several key policy areas—including home visiting, child care assistance, minimum wage, and cash assistance—that would be particularly impactful for families with infants and toddlers in New Mexico.
This report offers practical programmatic solutions that support second chances for young people and raise policy and systems considerations to address equity, collateral consequences, and opportunity.
This brief summarizes the lessons learned from a two-year technical assistance initiative and provides a framework to help guide state leaders trying to implement two-generation policy and systems reform strategies.