Child Welfare
One of the gifts of faith traditions is that they point us to vision and wisdom that is greater than our present reality. This is why Children’s Defense Fund has been working with congregations, synagogues, mosques, and temples for thirty years to celebrate and advocate for a world where children are centered in the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths.
Child Welfare
This Labor Day, we must also reflect on today’s labor practices and standards and their impact on children, youth, and their families.
Child Welfare
While many of us caregivers are scrambling to make sure our students have the right supplies (I forgot crayons!), clothes, and enough lunch money, we can’t lose focus on the disturbing social challenges that no pencil, pen, or notebook can prepare our students for.
Child Poverty
There is clear and urgent need to take decisive action to end New York’s entrenched racial inequalities and promote equitable economic mobility.
Child Welfare
This month, a group of students with experience in foster care, alumni of foster care, and their allies wrote a letter to members of the Ohio Senate to urge them to support the Foster-to-College Scholarship Act.
Child Welfare
This week, CDF-Ohio submitted testimony to the Ohio Senate Health Committee and the Ohio Senate Education Committee calling on lawmakers to make budgetary decisions in the interests of all Ohio’s children.
Child Welfare
As an organization, CDF-Ohio strongly supports policies grounded in data and research that empower parents and caregivers to be meaningfully engaged with their children’s schools, educators, and learning.
Child Welfare
Every two years, lawmakers have the important opportunity to invest in children and their future through the budget process. The budget is a moral document that is a reflection of our priorities as a state, and we must do right by our children and youth—the future of Ohio.
