Publications

Child Health

Texas Hospitals Required to Ask About Immigration Status

As of November 1, 2024, Executive Order GA-46 requires the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to direct Texas hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
Policy Agenda

CDF-MN Parent & Caregiver Quarterly Newsletter

Community Engagement: Our team is establishing a network of activists, leaders, community members and parents for the organization and the broader child advocacy movement.
Immigration

CDF-Texas Asylum Explainer Fact Sheet

Effective October 1, the Biden administration has taken action to indefinitely extend current restrictions on the ability to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, which have come to be known as the “asylum ban.”
Child Health

2024-2025 NY State Budget and Legislative Action Agenda

Bold action is required if our system of care for youth and families in crisis were to be truly transformed. We call for urgent attention to the following critical domains for policy-making and collective action that recognize the need for concrete support and resources across young people’s lives as they navigate their emerging adulthood after foster care.
Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq. Before the Committee on Children and Youth New York City Council Budget and Oversight Hearings

Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the chairs and members of the Committee on Children and Youth for the opportunity to submit written testimony related to the City’s FY 2025 Budget and the needs of young people who rely on the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD).
Child Welfare

We Deserve Action, Not Just Words

Findings of a Survey of Former Foster Youth in New York City
Child Nutrition

School Meals Support Ohio Student Health and Learning

Hunger in Ohio remains unacceptably high. One in six children, and as many as one in four children in certain counties, lives in a household that faces hunger—that’s 413,000 kids across Ohio. Yet more than one in three kids that live in a food insecure household doesn’t qualify for school meals.
Youth Justice

Community Based Safety in LAUSD Must be Implemented with Greater Urgency

The Police Free LAUSD Coalition aims to create holistically safer, welcoming, and affirming campuses for all students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Education

LBUSD’s Draft LCAP Fails to Include Equity Gap Closing Actions and Goals

We look forward to the release of the district’s second draft of the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for the 2024-25 school year. In recent years, Long Beach Unified has made significant strides in its approach to the LCAP community engagement process.
Education

LCFF Equity Coalition Comments re: SBE Agenda, Items 2, 3 and 4 – May 8, 2024

We represent a coalition of civil rights, advocacy, community, parent, student, educator, and other organizations that have worked diligently on the passage and implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and its accountability system, both at the state and local levels.