CPR’s
work in the health area includes helping to develop and assess mechanisms to
promote voluntary paternity acknowledgement in hospital settings, assessing the
effectiveness of sexual assault prevention programs to youth and adolescents in
residential care facilities, evaluating the benefits of providing medical
screenings and treatment for battered women and their children in a shelter
setting, and analyzing trends in the regulation of health care services to
consumers. CPR is currently working with Colorado to improve health insurance
coverage among children in the child support system including developing
procedures to determine whether employer-provided health insurance is available
at a reasonable cost and extending coverage for children through Medicaid and
SCHIP when private health insurance coverage is not available.
