Child Welfare
CDF National Policy Forum
So, as we celebrate CDF’s 50th anniversary this year, we’re excited to gather leaders and advocates and launch the policy agenda that will guide us from a bold legacy toward a bright future.
Child Welfare
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Child Poverty
What a Continuing Resolution Means for America’s Children and Youth
Over the weekend, the federal government narrowly avoided a shutdown, when Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) just hours shy of the end of fiscal year 2023.
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Child Welfare
A Child Shall Lead: 2023 Children’s Sabbaths
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
