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Our Voice for Children
September 2021
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Listening and Acting to Heal Our Children
Throughout the month, we've been hearing from places of worship that
are planning to join us for our annual National Observance of
Children's Sabbaths
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during the weekend of October 15-17. Our partners are most excited
about the steps they'll take on Children's Sabbaths weekend that will
spur listening, learning, and acting for and with children all year
long.
There is still time to join us! Explore our resources to see how you
can kick off a year of action with Family Suppers, a Child Watch
Visitation Program, or a CDF Advocates' Book Club (ABC). We look
forward to uniting with you in a faithful commitment to our children.
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Our Advocacy for Children
September ushered in a new school year for many children, while across
the country advocates pushed for the nation's leaders to take bold new
steps to help families thrive. Here are some of the ways we advocated
for children and their families this month:
New York's Children: We announced the appointment of a new Executive
Director of CDF-New York, Kercena A. Dozier, who brings to the
position a wide array of substantive experience fighting poverty in
city and state governments, on a grassroots level, in partnership with
unions, and as a staffer for CDFI's community development corporation.
Learn more.
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Education: As yet another COVID-19 school year began, we highlighted
the supports and measures that children need to keep them safe from
the virus, tend to their mental health, create a safe and inclusive
school climate, provide opportunities to finish learning, and ensure
that they feel safe and secure about their futures. Learn more.
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Youth Voices: We shared a reflection from one of our interns on the
importance of children seeing themselves represented among the
literary and television characters that they love and admire. Learn
more.
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Racial Equity: We called on child advocates across the country to
contact their members of Congress to tell them to pass President
Biden's Build Back Better Act, which puts America's most marginalized
children and families first and advances racial equity. Learn more.
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Foster Youth: We uplifted an urgent message from one of our partners,
an activist who herself spent 20 years in the foster care system, who
is calling on Congress to extend the safety net that has kept foster
youth from homelessness and hunger during the pandemic. Learn more.
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Child Poverty: We demonstrated how new Census Bureau data confirmed
two critical facts: that far too many children, especially Black and
brown children, are growing up in poverty, and that policies that put
economic power in the hands of families are the most effective way to
ensure they thrive. Learn more.
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Support our ongoing work toensure children and families will be even
stronger on the other side of this pandemic. Make a gift today>
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Building Culturally Responsive Teacher Training
We also announced this month that the CDF Freedom Schools team, under
the leadership of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow
Dr. Lauren Lefty, will create a Teacher Training Institute to build on
the valuable learnings of the CDF Freedom Schools program's 25 years
of servant leadership. The CDF Freedom Schools Teacher Training
Institute will implement a research-based, high-quality, and
multicultural education model and offer new audiences culturally
relevant and inclusive training on anti-racist program operation.
Learn more.
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Child Watch Roundup
In a Child Watch column published this month, Marian Wright Edelman
reflected on where she was when the horrific events of September 11,
2001 unfolded and how remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wisdom
in that moment, and in every moment since, gave her the resolve to
carry on the struggle to build the beloved community even amid outer
turmoil.Read the column.
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Catch up on the rest of Marian Wright Edelman's recent Child Watch
columns:
* Bridging Gaps This School Year
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* Happy 100th Birthday to the Great Constance Baker Motley!
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* "Where Does It Hurt?" Listening to Heal Our Children
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column directly to your inbox every Friday
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