New York

  • Child Health

    Canaries in a Coal Mine

    For far too long, our State has employed the morally bankrupt practice of using vulnerable children as canaries in a coal mine – testing strips to detect the presence of lead after their health has already been permanently damaged.

    | New York

  • Child Health

    CDFNY Childhood Lead Poisoning Hearing Testimony

    As a cofounder and leader of the statewide Lead Free Kids New York coalition, the Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) is grateful to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and the Senate Standing Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development for the opportunity to submit testimony for this Joint Public Hearing to discuss childhood lead poisoning prevention in New York State.

  • Child Poverty

    CDF-NY Sign-On Letter to Reduce Child Poverty in Build Back Better Act (with Signatures)

    As faith-based and child advocacy organizations from across New York, we write to you today to thank you for your strong leadership in bringing about the American Rescue Plan’s transformational expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) – and to implore you to continue to center the needs of New York’s marginalized children and families by making the expanded CTC permanent, fully inclusive of all immigrant children and fully refundable in the final Build Back Better Act. Additionally, we ask that you support a final version of the Build Back Better Act that includes paid family and medical leave.

  • Child Poverty

    Why We Should All Be New York Child Defenders

    We are the ones we are waiting for to create another New York where our marginalized children are free to be children and have a real opportunity to meet their full potential.

    | New York

  • Child Poverty

    CDF-NY Children's Sabbaths ® 2021 Call to Action

    On this 30th Annual National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths ® Celebration, the Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) urges you to take action for our State’s most vulnerable children and families.