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New York Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement Requirement Organizational Sign-On Letter (October 2023)2023-10-20T15:00:02-05:00

  New York Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement Requirement Organizational Sign-On Letter (October 2023)

We, the undersigned organizations committed to racial justice, health equity, child wellbeing, and economic mobility, write to you today urging you to take a bold step towards realizing racial equity in New York by requiring the incorporation of racial and ethnic impact statements into our State’s legislative and rule-making processes.

LEVERAGING RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS TO ACHIEVE RACIAL EQUITY IN ALL POLICIES: NATIONAL CONTEXT (Updated October 2023)2023-10-20T14:44:36-05:00

  LEVERAGING RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS TO ACHIEVE RACIAL EQUITY IN ALL POLICIES: NATIONAL CONTEXT (Updated October 2023)

Enacting new legislation and rules without first evaluating their potential to disproportionately impact communities of color only perpetuates these disparities. In the absence of racial impact assessment, legislation that “appears” race-neutral at face value can, in practice, adversely – and disparately – affect New York’s children and families of color.

RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES IN NEW YORK: AN URGENT CRISIS2023-10-20T14:23:21-05:00

  RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES IN NEW YORK: AN URGENT CRISIS

New York was recently classified as having among the highest structural racism and income inequality indexes in the entire United States. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made irrefutably evident, perhaps nowhere are racial and ethnic inequities more evident in our State than with regards to health inequities.

Project UNITE: Young People’s Platform for the Future of Housing in NYC | May 20232023-06-30T17:15:39-05:00

  Project UNITE: Young People’s Platform for the Future of Housing in NYC | May 2023

UNITE is a partnership of the Coalition for Homeless Youth and YouthNPower: Transforming Care at the Children’s Defense Fund-NY. The UNITE Project’s mission is to transfer power to young people and to hold systems accountable to dismantle the silos and fill the gaps that perpetuate the intersection of the child welfare system and youth homelessness.

STATEMENT: Hochul Budget Must Expand Empire State Child Tax Credit to Better Support Families with Children and Reduce Racial Disparities in Child Poverty2023-04-27T15:24:21-05:00

  STATEMENT: Hochul Budget Must Expand Empire State Child Tax Credit to Better Support Families with Children and Reduce Racial Disparities in Child Poverty

As the cost of living continues to climb, Governor Hochul can make our state more affordable – while reducing New York’s stark racial disparities in child poverty – by putting cash into the hands of her constituents through a stronger Empire State Child Credit.

MEDIA RELEASE: Elected Officials and Anti-Poverty, Health Care Access, Anti-Hunger, Education, and Faith-Based Groups Denounce House Speaker McCarthy’s Demands to Cut Safety Net Programs including Food Stamps & Medicaid as Part of Deal to Lift Federal Debt Ceiling2023-04-18T14:11:39-05:00

  MEDIA RELEASE: Elected Officials and Anti-Poverty, Health Care Access, Anti-Hunger, Education, and Faith-Based Groups Denounce House Speaker McCarthy’s Demands to Cut Safety Net Programs including Food Stamps & Medicaid as Part of Deal to Lift Federal Debt Ceiling

Wall Street, New York, April 17, 2023 -- Elected Officials and leaders from anti-poverty, health access, anti-hunger, education, human services, and faith-based groups joined New Yorkers in protesting outside the New York Stock Exchange while House Speaker Kevin McCarthy delivered a speech outlining negotiating terms for lifting the federal debt ceiling.

70-Organization Childhood Lead Poisoning Budget Investment Sign-On Letter | March 20232023-03-23T14:39:53-05:00

  70-Organization Childhood Lead Poisoning Budget Investment Sign-On Letter | March 2023

We, the 70 undersigned faith-based, child advocacy, social justice, environmental health and justice advocacy, and philanthropic organizations, write to you to collectively implore you to make bold and critical investments towards combatting and ending the racial, environmental and moral crises of childhood lead exposure and poisoning in New York. As a co-founder and co-leader of Lead Free Kids New York, a growing statewide coalition of individuals, groups, and organizations working to end childhood lead exposure and poisoning in New York, the Children’s Defense Fund - New York (CDF-NY) stands alongside our partners in urging State Budget investments and policy solutions for childhood lead exposure in housing and other settings within marginalized communities.

2023 CDF-NY Week of Action Digital Toolkit2023-03-09T16:27:01-05:00

  2023 CDF-NY Week of Action Digital Toolkit

The CDF-NY Week of Action Toolkit provides leaders like you with valuable resources to help promote the importance of advocating to our New York elected officials to pass a State budget that prioritizes marginalized children, youth, young adults, families and their communities in the areas of economic mobility, health equity, youth justice and child welfare.

CDF-NY Testimony on the 2023 – 2024 New York State Housing Executive Budget2023-03-01T17:11:12-05:00

  CDF-NY Testimony on the 2023 – 2024 New York State Housing Executive Budget

As a co-founder and leader of the statewide Lead Free Kids New York coalition and an organization whose policy priorities include such issues as economic mobility, child welfare, youth justice, and health equity - issues all rooted in poverty and which impacts child, youth, and family housing stability - the Children’s Defense Fund-New York (CDF-NY) appreciates the Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee for the opportunity to submit testimony for this Joint Legislative Public Hearing to discuss the Executive Budget for Housing.

Letter: The Child and Family Wellbeing Fund in the FY 2023-2024 Budget2023-02-28T18:42:17-05:00

  Letter: The Child and Family Wellbeing Fund in the FY 2023-2024 Budget

We urge you to include the Child and Family Wellbeing Fund, currently included in the Child and Family Reinvestment Act advanced by Assemblymember Hevesi and Senator Brisport in the FY 2023-24 Budget. The Child and Family Wellbeing Fund advances the health and development of all New York’s children by investing resources in communities that have been historically disenfranchised and targeted for government intervention through the CPS system.

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