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Farmworkers are a mobile, high risk, high need and hard to reach working poor population thought to have the worst overall health status in the nation. Although eligible to participate in safety net programs, including Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), farmworkers under utilize these programs. The low rate of farmworker participation is due in part to health systems problems in the regulation and administration of child health insurance programs that make it difficult for farmworkers to obtain or retain access to benefits. This web page provides information about these issues, and resources for farmworker service providers to enable them to better serve this population in accessing SCHIP and Medicaid.

• Removing Barriers to Farmworker Participation in SCHIP and Medicaid
• CHIP 2002 Program Abstract
• CHIP Fact Sheet for Farmworkers (in Spanish)
• CHIP Fact Sheet for Providers
• The National Governors Association, who maintains a current comprehensive summary of all SCHIP state plans
• Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (a monograph produced by NCFH for the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health -- the reference section of this monograph contains a full bibliography on other sources containing information on farmworker participation and access to SCHIP/Medicaid, relevant demographics and health issues)
• State efforts in increasing migrant farmworkers access to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program This document summarized the efforts of states in increasing migrant farmwork access to SCHIP and Medicaid.

For more information, contact Sylvia Partida ( ).