For Our Children

CDF National Policy Forum

Children's Defense Fund is working for a future where our
children play freely in parks, walk safely to bus stops, and learn in
schools as sanctuaries, with neighbors and public servants as
guardians of their well-being. A key aspect of that work is pushing
for public policy on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures that will
create the conditions for young people to thrive. Indeed, one of the
legacies we've been entrusted with in this moment, is
CDF's history of seeding the policy landscape from the leading
edge.

So, as we celebrate CDF's 50th anniversary this year,
we're excited to gather leaders and advocates and launch the
policy agenda that will guide us from a bold legacy toward a bright
future. Join us November 2,-3 for Child Well-Being in America: A
National Policy Forum, at the Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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The forum will feature policymakers, social change advocates, and
educators, committed to multi-issue advocacy and organizing for
children and families. Through plenaries and breakouts over the two
days, we will explore a bold, new public policy strategies and set of
leading questions which contend for the voice and hope for
America's children.

Our vision for the future is often clouded by children's
challenges in the moment.

While lawmakers reached an agreement to temporarily fund the federal
government, the continuing resolution they passed will not support
America's childcare centers, putting more than 70,000 childcare
programs at risk of closure due to an October 1 expiration of more
than $24 billion in federal pandemic relief funding. (Check out my
comments on this issue from an interview last week with Roland
Martin.)
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School boards across the country continue to bend to the pressure of
those who are actively banning books that highlight America's
diversity. (Here's a list of banned books we love by the way.)
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As chronicled by our faith partners at Sojourners, the U.S. Census
Bureau revealed two weeks ago that America's child poverty rate
more than doubled in 2022 thanks to the expiration of the expanded
Child Tax Credit.

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Young people need us to sharpen our policy analysis, boldly articulate
our vision, and build our bases of support. Their interests too often
go unheard by powerbrokers. Delivering for them is the focus of Child
Well-Being in America. Attendees will leave activated (and agitated)
to develop and further groundbreaking strategies to serve, support,
and advocate with children and youth for years to come.

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This work cannot wait. I am excited to see all we can accomplish
together. Join us.


For our children,

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
President and CEO

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