HEALTHY KIDS in Georgia 

Insuring our Kids a Healthy Future

Put Kids on Your Radar

Voices’ Goal is to reduce the percent of Georgia’s children who have no health insurance to only 4% of 0-18 year olds, from our current percentage of 12% by 2008.  Access to health insurance helps to insure that all Georgia kids receive the health care they need to lead active and productive lives.

Concurrent with efforts to cover the uninsured, Voices has also developed a list of child health indicators that can be used to establish a baseline for measuring the overall health of the state's children.  A copy of the Five Healthy Steps Indicators policy brief can be downloaded here.

See also Five Healthy Steps 2008 Update
and it supplement, Improving Children's Mental Health

Access to healthcare is an important element of Voices' initiatives concerning policies and investments focusing on the very young.  Voices has published Compounding Interest: Why 0-5 is an investment worth making, a comprehensive report on better preparing children to excel in later years that includes health as a primary component of a policy framework.