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Since its founding in 1995, CT Voices has received the generous support of hundreds of individual donors, as well as of state and national foundations.

Foundations and other organizations supporting CT Voices' work have included:

Anthem Foundation
AT&T
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
Carolyn Foundation
Center for Health Care Strategies
CERES Foundation
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
CFED
City of Hartford - Hartford Public Schools
Communications Consortium Media Center
Community Foundation of Greater New Haven
Connecticut Health Foundation
Connecticut State Medical Society
First Focus
Fisher Foundation
Ford Foundation
Friedman Family Fund
William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Melville Charitable Trust
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
New Britain Foundation
New England Consortium
Pew Charitable Trust
San Francisco Foundation
Sassafras Foundation
SBC/SNET
Seedlings Foundation
Smith-Richardson Foundation
State of Connecticut Department of Social Services
State of Connecticut Office of Workforce Competitiveness
State of Connecticut State Library
Stoneman Family Foundation
The Tow Foundation
United Illuminating
United States Department of Labor
United Way of Greater New Haven
Waterbury Foundation

Births to Mothers with HUSKY Program and Medicaid Coverage: 2008

This report on births to mothers with HUSKY and Medicaid health coverage finds:

Birth trends: The proportion of births covered by the HUSKY Program and fee-for-service (FFS) Medicaid continues to increase, from 26.8 percent in 2000 to 38.3 percent of all births in Connecticut in 2008.
Teen births: Over 85 percent of all births to Connecticut teens in 2008 were births to young mothers with HUSKY Program or FFS Medicaid.
Prenatal care: Mothers who had HUSKY Program or Medicaid coverage were not as likely as other mothers without publicly funded care to have had early prenatal care (prenatal care that began in the first trimester of pregnancy).
Smoking in pregnancy: Since monitoring by coverage type began, the smoking rate among mothers with HUSKY Program coverage has declined steadily. However, the rate (11.2%) is over five times higher than the smoking rate for other mothers in Connecticut (1.9%).
Birth outcomes: The rates for preterm births (prior to 37 weeks gestation) to mothers with HUSKY Program (11.3%) or FFS Medicaid coverage (13.0%) were higher than the rate for births to other mothers (10.3%) in 2008. Rates for all groups were higher than in 2007. The low birthweight rates were higher for babies born to mothers with HUSKY Program coverage (9.0%) and mothers with FFS Medicaid coverage (9.6%) than the rate for births to other mothers (7.2%).

Download this publication from Connecticut Voices for Children.

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