Definition: Estimated percentage of adults with caregiving responsibilities for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) ages 0-17 who accessed services to help support their CSHCN in the period before the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, by type of service (e.g., in Wave 1 (Nov. 9 – Dec. 11, 2020), 14.2% of California caregivers of CSHCN had accessed care coordination services before the pandemic).
Data Source: Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Dec. 2020). Questionnaire: American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevent Child Abuse America & Tufts Medical Center; California oversample: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health & California Essentials for Childhood Initiative (California Dept. of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch & California Dept. of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention).
Footnote: Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. Mental health services include mental and behavioral health supports from a counselor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or therapist. Therapeutic services include occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, and applied behavioral analysis. Special education services include supports from special education resource specialists or aides. These data are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because (a) fewer than 20 caregivers of CSHCN reported use of services, or (b) the margin of error for the estimate is 10 percentage points or greater. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate’s margin of error is at least 5 percentage points but less than 10 percentage points.
