Children's Defense Fund-California

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Child Watch 2024 | Please join us September 23rd as we discuss new ways to ensure every young person in California gets the opportunity to grow up with dignity, hope, and joy. Click this link to learn more about our upcoming event: https://bit.ly/3MJOyXe

Children's Defense Fund-California can't wait to see all the wonderful things young people in California accomplish this school year. Remember – we'll always be here to ensure all young Californians grow up with dignity, hope, and joy. Welcome back to school, California!

Sign the pledge & share your selfie to show you’re voting in November for lawmakers who put children and youth first! Join by July 29 to be a part of our Voices for Child Well-being digital album. Children's Defense Fund

🗣️ I’ve got a RECOGNITION!!!!

Freedom Schools is in session, and our Servant Leader Interns at are trained up and ready to create some magic this summer ✨✨

CDF-CA celebrates the work you will do this summer to support your incredible scholars and Freedom Schools community 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

It's not too late to register, join us Tuesday!

Register now! bit.ly/ws-VEDs

Join us NEXT WEEK for our second YouthStories.LA event!! This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

If you missed our last one, this is an opportunity to learn about how young people used art and storytelling to track their path from school to juvenile camps and halls. Read their words and hear their voices as they highlight what could have been done to better support them instead of sending them to Probation.

Register now! bit.ly/ws-VEDs

What can YOU as a Freedom Schools leader hold for your Servant Leader Interns (SLIs) to keep them going?

Establishing a safe space for your SLIs to build community with Site Coordinators, Project Directors, Executive Directors and themselves is one of many key ingredients to hosting a successful Freedom Schools program for your scholars each summer. ☀️

Check out some of these offerings from a group of SLIs and think about how you can continue to cultivate opportunities for community building among your Freedom Schools staff.

Today and always, we support children's freedom to learn and encourage community leaders to rise up and stand for what's right. As we face an ongoing wave of censorship, book banning, and attacks on our multiracial democracy, we must do our part to make our voices heard.

Learn more about these attacks and how you can support children's freedom to learn on this national day of action. Check out this toolkit from our partners in the Right to Learn Coalition and share your activation today!

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Did you hear the news?!?!

Taxpayers in California could save up to $832 million in filing fees thanks to IRS , a new, FREE online filing tool.

Run, don't walk to directfile.irs.gov, and save!

Tomorrow, CDF-CA Youth Justice Director Milinda Kakani will provide members of the California Senate her observations of the state's juvenile justice system
since the passage of Senate Bill 823 and the closure of the California Division of Juvenile Justice. The scheduled hearing will come just one day before a state board will decide whether two Los Angeles County juvenile facilities are unsuitable to house youth due to substandard conditions. | "We cannot fund or train our way out of
culture of control and exploitation." Click the link here to read our press release and learn more about how you can watch Milinda's testimony live: https://bit.ly/4bF9PfK

GOOD MORNING!!! Join us TODAY at Dyer Hall at LBCC's Pacific Coast College Campus as we team up with and LBUSD students & counselors to support Reimagined School Counseling!

Register with the QR code or join our livestream TODAY AT 4:30!! See you there!