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Child Welfare

Invest in What’s Right

Earlier this year, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange published a story with an encouraging headline: “Juvenile prison populations reach all-time lows”.

October 17, 2023 | National

Youth Justice

Policymakers, Non-Profit Organizations, and Community Members Will Gather to Discuss Best Practices to Dismantle School-to-Jail Track

Children’s Defense Fund-California has partnered with Art for Healing & Justice Network, the Collective for Liberatory Lawyering, and Youth Justice Coalition – collectively The StoryMapping Team – to stop California’s increasingly alarming school-to-jail track.

October 16, 2023 | California

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.

July 12, 2023 | New York

Child Welfare

Project UNITE: Young People’s Platform for the Future of Housing in NYC | May 2023

UNITE is a partnership of the Coalition for Homeless Youth and YouthNPower: Transforming Care at the Children’s Defense Fund-NY.

Child Health

2023 CDF-NY Week of Action Digital Toolkit

The CDF-NY Week of Action Toolkit provides leaders like you with valuable resources to help promote the importance of advocating to our New York elected officials to pass a State budget that prioritizes marginalized children, youth, young adults, families and their communities in the areas of economic mobility, health equity, youth justice and child welfare.

Child Health

CDF-NY Testimony on the 2023 – 2024 New York State Housing Executive Budget

Read Children’s Defense Fund-New York's testimony for the Joint Legislative Public Hearing to discuss the Executive Budget for Housing.

Child Health

Leveraging Racial & Ethnic Impact Statements to Achieve Racial Equity in All Policies & Rules: New York's Communities of Color Have a Right to Full Justice & Equity

Our State must take a stand and lead the nation in only legislating policies that uplift, not harm, our most marginalized communities. Now is the time to lead the nation in embarking on the path to achieving equity in all policies.

Child Poverty

CDF-NY 2023-2024 Human Services Budget Testimony

Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the chairs of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee for the opportunity to submit testimony on the 2023 – 2024 New York State Human Services Executive Budget Proposal.

Child Welfare

CDF-Ohio Urges Action on the Placement Crisis in Foster Care

A local news report on February 2, 2023, shined a spotlight on an ongoing issue in Ohio: the practice of youth sleeping overnight at children’s services offices while waiting for placement in foster care.

February 3, 2023 | Ohio

Child Health

Prioritizing the Needs of Children, Youth and Families: New York State Budget and Legislative Priorities FY 2023 - 2024

As communities of color continue to navigate the triple crises of COVID-19, inflation, and systemic oppression rooted in racism, our State elected officials must do what is just, which is to put New York on a strong path to a just equitable recovery by centering and prioritizing the needs of the youngest New Yorkers along with marginalized children, youth and families in the FY 2023-2024 Budget and Legislative Session in ways that center their physical and mental wellness and economic health, thereby enabling them to have joy and to thrive.