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Conference

Faith In Our Future: Day of Advocacy

Learn how your congregation can impact child well-being at CDF-Ohio's Faith-Based Advocacy Trainings and Lobbying Day!

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Ohio

Child Health

Congress Must Reject School Meals Proposal That Would Hurt Thousands of Southwest OH Kids

When you hear news about some of the decisions lawmakers make in Washington, D.C., it sometimes may feel easy to think what happens there will not instantly impact what happens here in Ohio.

April 21, 2025 | Ohio

Child Health

Experts to Brief Ohio Children’s Caucus on Medicaid’s Impact on State’s Youth as Federal Lawmakers Weigh Program Cuts

Health experts and youth experts are concerned cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children in Ohio. In 2023, approximately 1.4 million Ohio children were enrolled in Medicaid, according to KIDS COUNT Ohio.

March 28, 2025 | Ohio

Child Health

Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition Releases FY '26-'27 Budget Report, Urges Lawmakers to Adopt 70+ Child Friendly Proposals

The Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition (OCBC), a partnership of more than 20 organizations committed to the health and well-being of children, has released its biennial budget report, Creating a Vision of Child Well-being for Ohio.

March 25, 2025 | Ohio

Census

CDF-Ohio Finds Some Proposals in Governor’s Budget Encouraging as Data Suggests Almost 470,000 OH Youth Continue to Struggle with Poverty

Research suggests nearly half a million children in Ohio continue to suffer from the devastating impacts of poverty. The findings, which come from Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio's (CDF-Ohio) 2024 Kids Count® Data Profiles, show it would be wise for Ohio to adopt some of the youth-based budget proposals presented by Governor Mike DeWine.

February 10, 2025 | Ohio

Policy in Action

Learn about policies that impact families and actions you can take to protect your community's interests.

October 6, 2024

Ohio

2024 CDF-Ohio Celebration of Joy

Children’s Defense Fund celebrated 50 years of service in 2023. Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio will continue the celebration as a part of the national initiative to recognize our fifty years of unleashing the joy in growing up.

September 19, 2024

Ohio

Child Nutrition

School Meals Support Ohio Student Health and Learning

Hunger in Ohio remains unacceptably high. One in six children, and as many as one in four children in certain counties, lives in a household that faces hunger—that’s 413,000 kids across Ohio. Yet more than one in three kids that live in a food insecure household doesn’t qualify for school meals.

Statement: Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio Remembers the Legacy of Brigid Kelly

Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio is saddened to learn of the passing of its friend and former Advisory Board member Brigid Kelly. Brigid died Tuesday evening after a two-year battle with cancer.

April 1, 2024 | Ohio

Education Equity

CDF-Ohio State of School Discipline Report 2024

This report describes the state of exclusionary school discipline practices in Ohio as a contributing factor to the community to prison pipeline.

March 13, 2024 | Ohio