Project SEARCH, a school-to-work program for developmentally and physically disabled high school students transitioning to employment, is reviewed in this new brief. The program requires collaboration between a sponsoring employer, school system, community rehabilitation provider, and state...

This brief, the sixth in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that 40 percent of children with special health care needs enrolled in commercial health insurance plans have an emotional or behavioral disorder. Of these children, 34...

This brief, the third in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that 40 percent of these children enrolled in commercial health plans need treatment for emotional or behavioral disorders. Although health plans have been working to ensure...

This brief, the fifth in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that about 60 percent of all children have health insurance through a parent's employer, but coverage of services for children with special health care needs varies....

This brief profiles three programs that use difference approaches—unpaid work experience, subsidized employment, and unsubsidized transitional employment—to create work opportunities for TANF recipients who are living with a disability and have not been successful in finding...