Our Policy Focus:
Advance child health and development by:
- Protecting continuous Medicaid and CHP coverage for young children to age 6.
- Advancing evidence-based strategies to expand and strengthen the child and family serving workforce to improve access to care.
- Ensuring robust coverage and payment for pediatric, perinatal, and family-inclusive/dyadic care.
- Implementing policies and funding to ensure children who need behavioral health care get it.
- Improving children’s oral health by strengthening and expanding the oral health workforce.
- Supporting the Early Intervention program and ensuring children with developmental delays and disabilities get the supports they need in child care settings.
Read our full 2026 policy priorities here.
Housed at Schuyler Center, Medicaid Matters New York is the only statewide coalition dedicated to advancing the interests of Medicaid beneficiaries. Over 75 coalition partners work hard to ensure policymakers understand the importance of Medicaid to low-income and vulnerable New Yorkers. Medicaid Matters is the voice in Albany representing the interests of Medicaid consumers during discussions of the State’s public health insurance programs. Medicaid Matters has and continues to play a critical role in influencing reform of the Medicaid system in New York State.
Early Childhood Health and Well Being Resources
Resource Category/Categories: Child Welfare, Early Childhood Health and Well Being, Health | Resource Type: Memos in Support
Resource Category/Categories: Child Care, Child Poverty, Child Welfare, Early Childhood Health and Well Being, Health, Oral Health | Resource Type: Policy Priorities
