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How Expanding School-Based Medicaid Can Support Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing
June 27, 2024 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Time
Cosponsored with Grantmakers for Thriving Youth, Grantmakers for Education, and Youth Transition Funders Group
Schools and districts across the U.S. are contending with sunsetting COVID relief funds, rising costs, and intensifying student need for mental and behavioral health, academic, and SEL supports. One solution is to tap into sustained federal funding for youth wellbeing by expanding Medicaid school-based services. Congress, the Department of Education, the Biden Administration and the Center for Medicaid Services are aligned in their effort to expand school-based Medicaid – but states need to take several steps to make this happen.
Participants in this webinar learned how expanding school-based Medicaid can be a game changer for supporting youth well-being -- and how funders can help catalyze action. Speakers included Sarah Broome, Schmidt Innovation Fellow, and Elizabeth Duncan, Education Program Consultant, Healthy Schools, Louisiana Department of Education.