Publications

  • Education

    Who has the power?

    Los Angeles County has failed to ensure access to the essential tool of a quality, culturally affirming, robust, and individualized education to the thousands of students under its care in juvenile detention facilities each year. This failure disproportionately affects low-income communities of color and persists due to the lack of transparent and responsive accountability mechanisms.

  • Child Poverty

    Veto Requests for Ohio’s State Operating Budget FY2026-2027

    This budget, as currently written, sends a stark and disheartening message: Ohio’s children and families are not a priority. At a time when families are struggling to access child care, health coverage, basic necessities, and safe housing, lawmakers have chosen to deliver massive tax breaks to the wealthy and handouts to stadium developers.

  • Child Poverty

    “STARTING TO LIVE”

    Our pilot revealed the transformative potential of unconditional cash to help young people emerging from foster care to experience stability and a sense of control over their own lives—to truly experience a transition to adulthood.

  • Child Poverty

    Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson's Budget Reconciliation Letter

    The House-passed budget reconciliation package poses a grave threat to making that vision a reality. So, we are calling on you and your colleagues in the Senate to consider and pass a package that centers the needs of children and families.

  • Child Welfare

    Child and Family Wellbeing Fund One-pager

    Legislation creating a new Child and Family Wellbeing Fund would support children’s growth and development by investing resources in 10 communities that have been historically disenfranchised and targeted for government intervention through the child protective services (CPS)/child welfare system for 5 years.

  • Child Welfare

    Child and Family Wellbeing Fund White Paper

    This paper brings together our collective learning and explains the proposed New York State Child and Family Wellbeing Fund. We welcome conversations about the Fund and we hope this document will generate those discussions.