Our vision for education in New York City includes safe, restorative, healing environments where all students have the opportunity to learn and grow.
We envision a system where our young people can thrive, free of criminalization, harmful discipline practices, and police.
Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2021 Executive Budget Proposal: Human Public Protection for this opportunity to [...]
The Children’s Defense Fund - New York writes in support of S4002 (Brouk), which is a necessary reform that would protect children from being subject to pepper spray by police.
The precarity of Black children’s lives, the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic in their communities, and the events in Rochester make it clear that we need legislation to establish a Black Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force to evaluate and improve mental health supports for New York’s Black children.
Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2021 Executive Budget Proposal: Human Services for this opportunity to submit [...]
Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the chairs of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee for this opportunity to submit testimony on the 2021 – 2022 New York State Mental Hygiene Executive Budget Proposal.
Members of the Raise the Age NY Coalition applaud the Governor’s proposal to move swiftly to close four juvenile placement facilities and reduce the State’s [...]
The New York State Child Welfare Coalition is alarmed by the Governor’s proposed budget, most notably millions of dollars in cuts to a variety of [...]
Enacting new legislation and rules without first evaluating their potential to disproportionately impact racial minorities only perpetuates deep-rooted and systemic disparities.
