Education
Promote Race Equity with Student Loan Relief
For many students in Ohio, higher education can seem like an insurmountable challenge, especially for aspiring students who are low-income, first-generation, and/or parenting.
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Child Welfare
CDF-Ohio Urges Action on the Placement Crisis in Foster Care
A local news report on February 2, 2023, shined a spotlight on an ongoing issue in Ohio: the practice of youth sleeping overnight at children’s services offices while waiting for placement in foster care.
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Child Health
Supporting Children's Behavioral Health in the Learning Environment
Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio, Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, and Ohio Excels released a new report in response to the acute need for more and better services to meet children’s behavioral health and social-emotional learning needs.
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CDF State Office Reports
Advocacy on Behalf of All Ohio's Children: 2022 Impact Report
Through your support, CDF-Ohio successfully fought on the side of Ohio’s children in 2022, holding firm to our values of hope, courage, integrity, and justice.
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Education
Harmful and Unnecessary: Stop Attack on Trans Student Athletes
This week, CDF-Ohio submitted testimony urging the House Primary and Secondary Education committee to remove extremely harmful language to enact the Save Women’s Sports Act inserted into HB 151.
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Education
Ohio State Board of Education Members Must Protect Ohio Youth from Discrimination by Rejecting Board Member's Anti-LGBTQ+ Resolution
Ohio State Board of Education Members Must Protect Ohio Youth from Discrimination by Rejecting Board Member’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Resolution.
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Child Welfare
Consolidation of Power, the Enemy of Children
For decades, growing partisan gerrymandering across the country has carved out districts that unfairly favor certain politicians or groups, creating a mismatch in the priorities of the people and those representing them.
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Health
CDF-Ohio Testifies in Support of HB 142 to Expand Access to Essential & Life-Saving Doula Care
Today, CDF-Ohio's Senior Health Policy Associate, Kelly Vyzral, testified in support of H.B. 142, which passed the Ohio House in June with near unanimous bipartisan support.
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Education
CDF-Ohio Testifies in Opposition to Senate Bill 178
Today, CDF-Ohio submitted written testimony in opposition to Senate Bill 178, currently being considered by the Senate Primary and Secondary Education committee.
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Child Health
HB 454 Would Ban Life-Saving Gender Affirming Care for Ohio's Children and Youth
Today, during national Transgender Awareness Week, the Ohio House Families, Aging, and Human Services Committee heard opponent testimony on House Bill 454, the "Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act".
