2025 ELS Summary

The 2025 CDF Executive Listening Sessions continue to engage communities nationwide, focusing on critical issues like family economic mobility, early childhood development, health, and civic engagement. These sessions prioritize the voices of children, parents, and caregivers, using their insights to guide CDF’s advocacy and policy initiatives. The 2025 sessions are a pivotal part of CDF’s ongoing efforts to build equitable, thriving communities for all children and youth. 

Allentown, Pennsylvania

CDF Freedom Schools® site at Resurrected Life Children’s Academy

Columbia, South Carolina

CDF Freedom Schools® site at Francis Burns United Methodist Church


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