Children deserve the opportunity to start strong and learn, grow, and thrive. Caregivers need the crucial tools to foster their children’s healthy development from before they are born.
We advocate for a system that provides timely, quality, affordable, coordinated, and culturally-sensitive medical, dental, and mental health services of all children and addresses social factors and determinants that contribute to children’s health. We lift up the unique needs of children that are often forgotten in health systems and promote efficient care with an emphasis on prevention, early detection, and disease management.
Specifically, we provide research, develop strategies, and offer solutions to improve the health of New York’s children and families, particularly those with low and moderate incomes.
Schuyler Center serves as the home of Medicaid Matters New York.
Policy Focus
Through our advocacy and analysis, Schuyler Center develops and promotes budget and public policy initiatives that:
- Ensure Medicaid and Child Health Plus meet the physical, behavioral and oral health needs of children and families
- Build workforce strategies and data systems to improve care for children and families
- Ensure families in and at-risk-of entering child welfare receive prevention and health services
- Strengthens public health system and ensures integration with the health care system.
- Promotes health and well-being of people with psychiatric disabilities, especially those living in adult homes
Health Resources
Resource Category/Categories: Health, NYS Budget | Resource Type: Budget, Memos in Support
Resource Category/Categories: Health | Resource Type: Budget, Memos in Support
