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Five national organizations, Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, EndCAN, National Family Support Network, and Prevent Child Abuse America have collaborated to provide this resource to state agencies and organizations to help inform funding decisions and plans for the use of child abuse prevention funds that were included in [...]

All children who need support should be eligible for a child allowance. Restoring the CTC for the  approximately 1 million children who do not have Social Security numbers, but are eligible for ITINs, would provide families with much-needed support, helping immigrant families cover the costs of basic needs such as health care, food, school supplies, and other necessities that support their children’s well-being and healthy development. It would also infuse states with spending and bolster local economies.

Revamping Medicaid policies to improve young children’s social and emotional health and address health care inequities is particularly critical in California, where over half of children ages 0 to 5 have Medicaid coverage (known as Medi-Cal, in California), and three-quarters are children of color. California ranks near the bottom of the nation on most standard measures of child well-being and access to care.

On Saturday, November 6, 2021, we will gather virtually and in person to honor our dear friend and colleague, Phyllis Brunson. Please view the program we will follow to honor her memory here. With the passing of longtime CSSP friend and colleague Phyllis Brunson on March 26th, the world became a less bright place. She [...]

Photograph by Naima Green for TIME   “Because it was Black families who had worked in the fields or chopped cotton, it was only Black families whose assistance was withheld,” says Elisa ­Minoff, a senior policy analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy. Through the 1970s, the federal food-stamp program also penalized [...]

In its first month in office, the Biden-Harris administration has taken executive actions to advance racial equity signaling a welcome shift from the Trump administration, which rejected equity and justice as core values. The previous administration spent much of the last four years rolling back protections and advancing racist policies targeting Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American Pacific Islander, and immigrant communities (attempting, among other things, to ban racial equity trainings in the federal government).

Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) is thrilled to invite you to the Spreading HOPE: First Annual HOPE Summit taking place on April 9! This virtual summit seeks to inspire a group of leaders who will, together, champion a HOPE-informed movement. We have the opportunity to shift how we support children and families and create [...]

For years, pediatric providers, children’s advocates, parents, and others have advocated that the child health delivery system focus more on family-based primary and preventive care, including social and economic drivers of health. Unfortunately, reforming the pediatric delivery system often has taken a back seat to other health policy priorities.

Comprehensive immigration reform is long overdue and necessary to achieve a more equitable immigration system for families. As we noted in our 2019 report, Our Future Together, comprehensive immigration reform must be guided by a commitment to protect and promote the health and well-being of children and families.

In the American Rescue Plan, President Biden has called for expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) for one year as part of a comprehensive package to address the ongoing economic crisis. This week the House of Representatives unveiled legislation that would do just that, while U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Suzan DelBene, and Ritchie Torres simultaneously reintroduced the American Family Act, which would make these expansions of the Child Tax Credit permanent. In order to ensure that families receive the full benefit from these proposed expansions, however, the CTC needs to be reformed so that it functions more like a child allowance.