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Child Health

2024-2025 NY State Budget and Legislative Action Agenda

Bold action is required if our system of care for youth and families in crisis were to be truly transformed. We call for urgent attention to the following critical domains for policy-making and collective action that recognize the need for concrete support and resources across young people’s lives as they navigate their emerging adulthood after foster care.

Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq. Before the Committee on Children and Youth New York City Council Budget and Oversight Hearings

Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the chairs and members of the Committee on Children and Youth for the opportunity to submit written testimony related to the City’s FY 2025 Budget and the needs of young people who rely on the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD).

Child Welfare

We Deserve Action, Not Just Words

Findings of a Survey of Former Foster Youth in New York City

Child Poverty

CDF-NY Calls on the U.S. Senate to Approve the Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

Today, our U.S. Senate has the power - in the form of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 - to prioritize marginalized children, young people, and their families by voting in favor of the expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC).

February 6, 2024 | New York

Child Poverty

Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024 – 2025 New York State Executive Budget Proposal: Human Services

Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq. Director of Youth Justice & Child Welfare Children’s Defense Fund – New York

Child Health

Testimony for the Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024-2025 New York State Health/Medicaid Executive Budget

The COVID-19 pandemic compromised the health, safety, and stability of our children, young people, and their families and communities. It also highlighted and exacerbated longstanding inequities disparately affecting communities of color.

The Children’s Defense Fund – New York Calls for a ‘Whole Child, Whole Community’ State Budget & Legislative Priorities’

Today, as a part of its celebration of the life and world-changing legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., renowned civil rights activist and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history, the Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) releases its Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 Legislative and Budget Agenda, titled Prioritizing the Whole Child, Whole Community’s Needs: New York State Budget and Legislative Priorities FY2024-2025.

January 15, 2024 | New York

CDF New York 2023 Year in Review

In 2023, we launched the CDF-NY Whole Child, Whole Community Movement, because we know that to have thriving children, youth, and families requires having thriving communities. To have thriving communities requires holistic support to meet the full needs of all marginalized children, youth, young adults, and families in their respective communities.

Virtual

Middle Church Worship Celebration

October 22, 2023

New York | Virtual

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