The spread of COVID-19 is impacting everyone, and every corner of life. It is particularly devastating for children and families that were in crises before this pandemic, including:
- Families with young children – the cohort of our state’s population most in poverty – who couldn’t access essential supports, including sufficient nutrition and quality child care and preschool;
- Children who were abused and neglected and/or witness to domestic violence;
- The majority of California students who lacked the educational supports they needed to meet basic grade-level reading and math standards;
- Many children living in immigrant or undocumented families;
- The unacceptably low number of children in Medi-Cal who received preventive care and health screenings; and
- The millions of young people experiencing mental health challenges, including many who struggled with suicidal thoughts.
Far too many vulnerable kids were not receiving the supports and services they needed before this global health crisis began; now they are all the more essential to ensuring our collective future. Moreover, during the last economic downtown, it was child-serving programs that experienced the most dramatic cuts in California. We cannot let that happen again.
As a Pro-Kid organization, we know you support making kids the state’s top priority. Now join us in this critical advocacy effort.
Please sign on to a letter urging state leaders to prioritize kids in the upcoming 2020-21 state budget. We ask that they hold crucial children’s programs and services harmless and increase targeted supports as much as possible.
Together, we can ensure that as we emerge from this crisis, we protect our most precious constituency – our kids – and make them the state’s top priority.
*Please note that the sign-on letter campaign is only open to organizations, and we cannot sign on individuals. If you are affiliated with an organization and have the authority to do so, we encourage you to sign this letter on its behalf.
Sign here to show your organization’s support!
When you sign-on to this letter, please upload your logo through the sign-on form, or send the file in JPG, PNG, or PDF format to vduffy@childrennow.org. Your logo will be added to the letter.
If you submitted your organization's logo for a previous Children’s Movement campaign, click here to find the logo we have for your organization. If you'd like to update your logo or prefer us to not use your logo on this letter, please contact vduffy@childrennow.org. Logo file formats we accept are JPG, PNG, or PDF.
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