Last week a U.S. District judge ruled that Medicaid, Florida’s insurance program for needy families, must cover applied behavioral analysis, a therapy designed to improve the behavior, language and cognitive development of autistic children and endorsed by national health officials.

We have our final KidCare training session of the month coming up this coming Saturday and hope you can join us. This brief training session will be provided by Barbara Biggart, The Parent Academy. This training will provide a working understanding of Florida’s KidCare insurance program, arm you with the tools and skills necessary to assist families with applying for KidCare and answer any questions you may have.

Tonight, thousands of children in Florida will go to sleep in their family car, an emergency shelter, a seedy motel, or on the streets. They have no one to turn to and no safe haven. Each year, over 70,000 children in Florida experience homelessness.

A 2009 report, entitled America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, ranked Florida among the 10 worst states in addressing child homelessness.

Now The Florida Coalition for the Homeless and The National Center on Family Homelessness have partnered to create the Florida Campaign to End Child Homelessness, in order to bring child and family homelessness to the forefront of issues that must be tackled in the upcoming legislative session.