Children Now’s 2014 “California Children’s Report Card” was released this week, with grades ranging from B+ to a less impressive D on how the state performs on child health, education and welfare indicators.
Sherry Torok, who directs the Exceptional Family Resource Center in San Diego, has seen a sea of change in how agencies serving children interact with their families.
Guest Opinion: Much attention is appropriately focused on the transition of children with special needs to adult services, but another, much earlier transition also can create stress, confusion and difficulties for families. A California Children’s Services administrator and a parent whose daughter transitioned from Early Start services to a special education program suggest that our system of care be updated to enhance continuity of services from birth to age 5.
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health has awarded five grants totaling nearly $500,000 to improve systems of care for children with special health care needs.
Nationwide, pervasive-but-avoidable delays in testing newborn blood samples for genetic diseases are proving deadly for newborns. Learn more about what’s happening in California.
As associate medical director of Los Angeles County’s California Children’s Services program, Dr. Mary Doyle has a caseload nearly big enough to fill Dodger Stadium.
