New Resources and Opportunities – June 2026

Check out resources and opportunities from Family Voices and our partners. Resources from Family Voices’ policy team are in both English and Spanish, with more languages in development. Partner resources are mainly in English.

Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF)

• Which States Are Seeing the Largest Declines in Child Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment?: Georgetown CCF’s blog takes a closer look at the states with the largest decline in the number of children in Medicaid or CHIP and potential policies that could be driving the decline.
  • Check how your state is doing on CCF’s Medicaid/CHIP enrollment tracker.
• CMS Updates the Medicaid EPSDT Playbook for States: Here’s What You Need to Know: Georgetown CCF’s blog outlines the new EPSDT guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS). The 2026 Guide does not create new policy, but is a resource that “compiles decades of guidance in one place.” The Guide reorganizes the materials and adds new sections, including dedicated discussions of health homes, interagency coordination, and a standalone section on state and federal quality reporting and monitoring of EPSDT. Read more for highlights and CCF’s recommendations where the Guide could have gone further.

Child Trends

• How Fathers Spend Time With Their Children: Child Trend’s analysis of new nationally representative data using the AmeriSpeak^®panel shows that, overall, fathers who live with their children (or “resident fathers”) are positively involved in their children’s lives. Many spend quality time providing nurturing support, engage in physical activity, and establish family routines with both younger and older children in their homes.

Thorn Run Partners (TRP)

• TRP provides a state-by-state “roadmap” that translates each state’s Rural Health Transformation Program application into a profile of proposed initiatives, priority activity areas, use-of-fund categories, and award amounts.

Family Voices Public Policy Webpage: Family Voices regularly releases new policy materials. Stay tuned to our Public Policy page to read our new resources.

• Read Family Voices fact sheet on the New Department of Justice Memo on Olmstead. The fact sheet provides background on Olmstead, an overview of the memo, a brief history of disability rights around community-based services, key takeaways, and next steps.