West Virginia KIDS COUNT to release report on wellbeing of children and families in West Virginia

West Virginia KIDS COUNT, a leading resource for data on child and family well-being in West Virginia, will team with WVU Medicine Children’s and the WVU Rockefeller School of Public Policy and Politics to release the second in a series of briefs at an event Monday, April 23, at noon at WVU Medicine's Bruce McClymonds Conference Center in the southeast tower of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.

The event is open to WVU Medicine employees and the public.

The brief, called "Accounting for Enrollment Success and Considering the Challenges Ahead for Children’s Health Insurance," credits West Virginia for its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) outreach and enrollment efforts. It is the second in a series of six briefs. Representatives from WVU Medicine Children's and WVU are scheduled to speak.

West Virginia KIDS COUNT is a member of a national KIDS COUNT network. The organization receives funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, as well as state-level foundations, government grants, corporations, and individuals. West Virginia KIDS COUNT is a private, nonprofit, non-partisan organization.