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Medicaid Turns 60: Celebrate Coverage, Not Cuts

For six decades, Medicaid has served as a lifeline, protecting children’s health and strengthening communities. Now, as Medicaid marks this milestone, that promise has been broken.

July 29, 2025 | National

Charity

A Celebration of Joy: CDF-Minnesota 2025

Join us in celebrating 40 years of building community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.

August 21, 2025

Minnesota

Child Health

CDF Urges U.S. Senators to Reject Harmful Budget Cuts Threatening Families’ Health, Food, Financial Security

Today, the national youth advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) delivered a letter to U.S. Senators urging them to reject proposed cuts to critical health, nutrition, and financial stability programs as part of the budget reconciliation process.

June 9, 2025 | National

Child Health

Congress Must Reject School Meals Proposal That Would Hurt Thousands of Southwest OH Kids

When you hear news about some of the decisions lawmakers make in Washington, D.C., it sometimes may feel easy to think what happens there will not instantly impact what happens here in Ohio.

April 21, 2025 | Ohio

Child Health

North Texas Families to Discuss Impact of Potential Medicaid, SNAP Cuts on Children

On Monday, North Texas families will gather at Friendship-West Baptist Church to discuss how potential cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could impact the region’s children.

April 15, 2025 | Texas

Protect Medicaid and SNAP Now

Join us and fellow Texans to discuss: proposed Medicaid/SNAP cuts, how to get involved, and share what Medicaid/SNAP means to your family.

April 14, 2025

Texas

Child Health

Experts to Brief Ohio Children’s Caucus on Medicaid’s Impact on State’s Youth as Federal Lawmakers Weigh Program Cuts

Health experts and youth experts are concerned cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children in Ohio. In 2023, approximately 1.4 million Ohio children were enrolled in Medicaid, according to KIDS COUNT Ohio.

March 28, 2025 | Ohio

Child Health

Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition Releases FY '26-'27 Budget Report, Urges Lawmakers to Adopt 70+ Child Friendly Proposals

The Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition (OCBC), a partnership of more than 20 organizations committed to the health and well-being of children, has released its biennial budget report, Creating a Vision of Child Well-being for Ohio.

March 25, 2025 | Ohio

Child Health

CDF Urges Senate to Reject RFK Jr. Nomination to Lead U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

The national youth advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund urges the United States Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

February 5, 2025 | Southern Regional Office

Child Health

Mississippi’s Refusal to Participate in Summer Food Assistance Program Hurts Youth

For the second consecutive year, Mississippi state leaders have chosen to deny vital food assistance to children and young people facing hunger during the summer months.

February 5, 2025 | Southern Regional Office