Child Welfare
Labor day is coming up, but what are we celebrating?
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
-
Child Welfare
For Our Children: Back to School
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
Centering Racial Equity in New York Policymaking: The New York City Racial Justice Ballot Proposals
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
CDF-Ohio and Partners Urge Ohio Senate to Support Foster-to-College Scholarship Act
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
CDF-Ohio Testifies on Ohio's Budget Bill in Ohio Senate
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
Ohio Parent's Rights Bill is Not a Parent's Rights Bill at All
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
Testimony: Flat Tax Proposal Would Impact Ohio’s Ability to Invest in Children for Years to Come
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.
-
Child Welfare
Testimony: Rolling Back Child Labor Laws Never the Answer
Sub. S.B. 30 would fundamentally undermine that joy by infringing on the precious time children have to be just that—children.
