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2019-05-22T13:25:50-07:00

  Leveling the Playing Field for Children: 2018 Policy Agenda

This policy agenda identifies the steps that California lawmakers can take in 2018 to ensure that all our children have what they need to realize their potential tomorrow. Recognizing that children don’t come in pieces, the policy agenda highlights policies that support the whole children by lifting children out of poverty, providing quality health care to every child, ensuring educational equity, and transforming the juvenile justice system to focus on prevention and rehabilitation.

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2019-05-22T13:26:24-07:00

  Leveling the Playing Field for Children: 2017 Policy Agenda

This policy agenda identifies the steps that California lawmakers can take in 2017 to ensure that all our children have what they need to realize their potential tomorrow. Recognizing that children don’t come in pieces, the policy agenda highlights policies that support the whole children by lifting children out of poverty, providing quality health care to every child, ensuring educational equity, and transforming the juvenile justice system to focus on prevention and rehabilitation.

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2019-05-22T13:26:49-07:00

  A Culture of Care for All: Envisioning the LA Model

The juvenile justice system in Los Angeles County has been broken for too long. The outdated, institutional, and sometimes harmful camps that house youth labeled "delinquent" have been just one glaring example. But beyond the system, reform efforts themselves have suffered at times - whether from mistrust, or too often happening in a vacuum or behind closed doors. A Culture of Care for All: Envisioning the LA Model describes a new approach for treating youth who incarcerated. This report, written by Hailly T.N. Korman (Bellwether Education Partners) and Carly B. Dierkhising (California State University - Los Angeles) captures nearly two years of thought and collaboration by more than 100 stakeholders coordinated by CDF-CA to articulate a shared vision of a new model of juvenile justice in Los Angeles, known as the LA Model. The LA Model has ten essential elements and [...]

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2019-05-22T13:38:53-07:00
Child Health

  Medi-Cal Protects the Health of California’s Children

As our nation's leaders make critical decisions about America's future, Medicaid's historically strong protections must remain exempt from cuts or structural changes that would undermine its ability to serve people in need. Additionally, a partial or full repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and resulting federal cut to California's budget threatens the viability of the Medi-Cal program and the health of our state's children.

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2019-05-22T13:39:11-07:00
Child Health

  CHIP: An Advocacy Playbook for California

The Children's Health Insurance Program is a program jointly funded by states and the federal government and run by states to cover uninsured children based on income. CHIP currently provides health coverage for 8.9 million children in America and more than 2 million children and pregnant women in California over the course of a year (1.4 million at any given time). In California, children in families with incomes between 138% and 266% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL, $33,354 - $65,436 a year for a family of 4) are income eligible for CHIP. CHIP sits on the shoulders of Medicaid, which provides health coverage to children with family incomes of 138% FPL or less. In California, CHIP enrollees are part of the state's Medicaid program, which is known as Medi-Cal. Developed as a state-federal partnership that gives governors broad flexibility [...]

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2019-05-22T13:27:58-07:00

  WIC 236: “Pre-Probation” Supervision of Youth of Color With No Prior Court or Probation Involvement

In their report, "WIC 236 - ‘Pre-Probation' Supervision of Youth of Color With No Prior Court or Probation Involvement," Children's Defense Fund--California, Youth Justice Coalition, Urban Peace Institute and Anti-Recidivism Coalition argue that supervision by a law enforcement agency, like probation, is not the appropriate response to a demographic of overwhelmingly youth of color who are struggling with mostly school performance problems, like poor grades and attendance. The organizations hope to engage other community-based stakeholders and government agencies in examining WIC 236 supervision. Ultimately, they argue for shifting resources away from law enforcement entities towards education and community-based interventions that more appropriately serve youths' needs.

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2019-05-22T13:28:14-07:00

  Untold Stories Behind one of America’s Best Urban School Districts

Untold Stories Behind One of America's Best Urban School Districts focuses on recent education equity and racial justice trends in LBUSD related to school climate. The report explores how students, especially students of color and high-need students--low-income, English Learner, special education, and foster youth--have been impacted in recent years by exclusionary school climate practices. The findings and recommendations in this report seek to encourage more district-community collaboration that supports student learning and a universal pathway to college and career for LBUSD students--particularly high-need students.

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2019-05-22T13:39:32-07:00
Child Poverty

  Ending Child Poverty Now: Local Approaches for California

Ending Child Poverty Now: Local Approaches to California outlines six strategic priorities that cities and counties should consider when addressing child poverty. These recommendations were developed after in-depth interviews and discussions with local leaders and policy experts between June and September 2016, in addition to a review of the literature. While this report does not represent an exhaustive evaluation of the many effective local strategies that invest in poor children and families, each strategic priority includes local highlights of significant promising practices for city and county leaders to consider.

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2019-05-22T13:28:48-07:00

  Equity Index of Supplemental and Concentration Funds Target Schools

The Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach (BHCLB) Youth Committee and Parent Organizing Workgroup have collectively engaged thousands of students, parents, and community members since 2011. We support stakeholders' meaningful participation in the Long Beach Unified School District's (LBUSD) processes - especially Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) decisions - to ensure every student is healthy and thriving at school. This Equity Index of Supplemental and Concentration Funds Target Schools was created specifically for LBUSD by BHCLB with support from Advancement Project. The Equity Index builds upon LBUSD's current list of high need schools, based on the concentration of high need students per school site, by also including academic and neighborhood indicators that affect student learning and are of concern to constituents.

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2019-05-22T13:39:50-07:00
Education Equity

  Trauma Impacts Our Education (Equity Index Infographic)

The Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach (BHCLB) Youth Committee and Parent Organizing Workgroup have collectively engaged thousands of students, parents, and community members since 2011. We support stakeholders' meaningful participation in the Long Beach Unified School District's (LBUSD) processes - especially Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) decisions - to ensure every student is healthy and thriving at school.This Equity Index of Supplemental and Concentration Funds Target Schools was created specifically for LBUSD by BHCLB with support from Advancement Project. The Equity Index builds upon LBUSD's current list of high need schools, based on the concentration of high need students per school site, by also including academic and neighborhood indicators that affect student learning and are of concern to constituents. Download

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