CDF-Ohio’s report shows during the 2024-2025 school year, Black, non-Hispanic students were four and a half times more likely than White students to experience exclusionary discipline in Ohio.
As gun violence remains a leading cause of death for Ohio’s youth, CDF-Ohio urges lawmakers to reverse this trend by investing in community-based interventions and enacting Child Access Prevention mandates.
The child well-being and early learning experts will strengthen CDF’s board governance and policy advocacy.
‘All children deserve to grow up in safe communities’: CDF demands Congress stop funding for family-disrupting tactics.
Event comes after United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred five-year-old Liam Ramos of Minneapolis to its detention center in Dilley, south of San Antonio, last week.
Courts and communities must speak up to rollback punitive, political attack on child care.
Youth advocates and local faith leaders will discuss attacks on childhood and call on federal, state lawmakers to fight cuts and federal law enforcement surge as we seek to create a Minnesota where all children thrive.
On Friday, CDF President & CEO Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson spoke out against the Trump administration’s use of force in immigration enforcement at a press conference outside the White House in Washington, D.C.
CDF submitted several comments to the federal government cautioning the proposal would deter families from accessing healthcare and nutrition assistance while exposing millions of children in immigrant families to arbitrary green card denials.
Advocates challenge prolonged detention as unnecessary and unjust, highlighting its impact on youth.