Using Medicaid to Support Young Children?s Healthy Mental Development

January 2004 Using Medicaid to Support Young Children's Healthy Mental Development Recent research documents how and why social-emotional development may be as important as cognitive (intellectual) development. Children who are viewed by others as "sad, mad, or bad" are far less likely to experience school success and may be unable to use preschool intervention. Recent research also documents the important role Medicaid can play in supporting young children's healthy mental development. This report examines both why and how Medicaid can support children's healthy mental development, including a discussion of how states can use Medicaid to better . . .