Every infant and toddler deserves a safe, stable, and nurturing start in life.

The 2024 rate of U.S. homelessness increased by 18% over the previous year, with a 39% rise in families experiencing homelessness.

Join us to hear from Licia Villalta from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) about how HACLA is advancing digital equity in underserved communities.

There is over $4.8 billion for afterschool and summer programs in California from state and federal funds.

Did you know that the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) can be used to employ high school students to teach and mentor elementary and middle school students in afterschool and summer programs?

Join us for this virtual Out-of-School Time Professional Learning Community convening co-sponsored with the National Summer Learning Association. This conversation is open to past members of this learning community or brand-new interested staff.

A safe, stable place to live is a key ingredient for a child’s healthy physical, emotional and cognitive development. Research shows children’s well-being is intricately connected to their home environments.

The Children’s Partnership’s newly released policy brief, “Uplifting the Power of Culture: Protective Factors for the Health of California’s Children,” emphasizes how culturally grounded protective factors in early childhood can create equitable pathways to health and success for BIPOC children.

The Help Me Grow National Center (HMG) conducted a year-long Goal Concordant Care Study to explore how aligning early childhood system support with families’ goals can not only prevent negative outcomes for young children, but also help them thrive.

Chapin Hall developed a new strategic framework “Meeting Family Needs: A Multi-System Framework for Family and Child Wellbeing.” The framework stands as an essential tool to help develop an integrated and holistic child and family well-being system which supports families facing adversity and empowe

The Center for American Progress (CAP) is sharing three new fact sheets for 2025 in its ongoing series, “A Guide to Workplace Leave Laws in the United States.” These 2025 editions provide an overview of the state of play at the local, state and federal levels.

A fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families, “Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation,” reports that most working people in the United States–73 percent, or 106 million people nationwide–do not have paid family leave through their jobs.

The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) has released a revealing new report on Medicaid in rural areas and small towns. CCF updated its semi-annual rural analysis to show Medicaid's reach in rural areas, which is not always well understood.

Hear from the Corporation of Supportive Housing on ways and supports to use Medicaid resources on topics such as understanding all components of billing Medicaid for intensive supportive housing case management, and staffing and budgeting training.