NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid recipients have been able to maintain health insurance coverage since March 2020 without traditional redetermination periods thanks to provisions specified under the nationwide public health emergency (PHE). At the end of 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, an omnibus package that separated the continuous Medicaid coverage provision from the […]
Author: Catherine Felegi2
New Brief Details Ways NJ Can Improve Infant Mental Health
Learn more about the current programs supporting the mental health needs of infants in New Jersey, and explore ways that we can improve the social-emotional development of the state’s youngest residents. Download the Brief
Watch the Webinar – Family First Prevention Services Act Hosted in Partnership with NJDCF
This webinar, hosted by Advocates for Children of New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families on Thursday, December 15, 2022, explored the federal Family First Prevention Services Act and New Jersey’s prevention plan. In 2018, the federal government enacted the Family First Prevention Services Act to begin to shift federal support […]
Deadline for Pandemic-Related Compensatory Education Discussions Approaching
Important reminder: Schools must meet with parents of children with disabilities by Dec. 31st to discuss pandemic-related compensatory education. As a result of the pandemic-related school closures between March 18, 2020 and September 1, 2021, many New Jersey students with disabilities suffered profound learning loss. Often, they did not receive the necessary appropriate school-based education […]
Urge Congress to Tackle New Jersey’s Child Care Crisis!
New Jersey’s child care system is still in crisis. A federal investment in child care funding is necessary to keep the system from crumbling further. We must reimagine child care – New Jersey’s Congressional leaders must support an increase in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding to make this happen! Let Congress […]