Elizabeth Aguilera

EN RESUMEN Los médicos de Medi-Cal están evaluando a más pacientes por experiencias adversas en la infancia, pero no están obligados a informar si estos pacientes reciben terapia u otros servicios que puedan necesitar. Sin embargo, obtener esa ayuda es clave para prevenir condiciones crónicas de salud o de salud mental más adelante en la […]

Medi-Cal doctors are screening more patients for adverse childhood experiences, but they aren’t required to report whether those patients receive therapy or other services they may need. Yet getting that helps is key to preventing chronic health or mental health conditions later in life, research finds.

Under previous rules, family members of those who had insurance through an employer were not eligible for Covered California. In some cases, those employer plans cover the employee but are expensive for spouses and children, leaving families with few options.

This school year the California transitional kindergarten program began expanding to eventually include all 4-year-olds. But amidst a teacher shortage, some school districts had to move teachers already on staff or lure staff away from preschool programs.

En resumen Los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades (CDC) decidieron incluir la COVID-19 entre las vacunas que recomiendan para los niños, pero cada estado decide si adopta esas pautas. No está claro qué hará California, dadas las controversias pasadas sobre las vacunas para niños y la vacuna COVID en particular. Read this article in English. […]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control decided to list COVID-19 among the vaccines it recommends for children, but each state decides whether to adopt those guidelines. It's unclear what California will do, given the past controversies over children's vaccines and the COVID vaccine in particular.

En Resumen Durante los últimos dos años, algunas familias que reciben cuidado infantil subsidiado obtuvieron una exención de las tarifas que pagan para participar. Pero la exención terminará el próximo año después de que el gobernador Gavin Newsom vetó un proyecto de ley que la habría extendido, citando una disminución esperada en los ingresos estatales. Read […]

For the last two years, some families who receive subsidized child care got a waiver from the fees they pay to participate. But the waiver will end next year after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have extended it, citing an expected decrease in state revenue.

A beleaguered state program that provides hearing aids to children may soon include families with partial insurance coverage and youth up to 21 years old after the Legislature included the expansion in the budget bills. About 2,000 more children would be helped.

Although a California bill would have allowed vaccines for teens without parental consent made it to the final days of the legislative session, it failed to pass. Some legislators saw the bill as an “overreach” that undermined parental decisions.