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Purchase your ticket today and join Children’s Defense Fund November 5-6, at the MLK Memorial Library for two days of cultivating a future-facing vision of children’s policy alongside hundreds of child advocates, Congressional and Administration staff, researchers, policymakers, and young people.
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This year’s American Youth Policy Forum ([link removed]) boasts sessions centering topics integral to the movement for child well-being and racial justice. View the full schedule here ([link removed]) and check out the following sessions to your conference schedule.

Wednesday, November 5, 11:00 a.m. | Poverty Hurts Kids Brains. How Do Automatic Benefits Help Ease the Pain?

Poverty is one of the strongest predictors of adverse health outcomes in young children. While poverty is not just an absence of financial stability, chronic financial stress can affect how children’s brains grow and function. Providing families with automatic benefits is one way to help reduce these stressors. Experts will discuss what automatic benefits, their impact on lifting children and families out of poverty, and how automatic benefits connect economic and health justice, revealing how poverty’s impact reaches beyond finances to affect children’s health, development, and stability.

Wednesday, November 5, 11:00 a.m. | Medicaid Matters: Do We Have Another Sixty Years of Health Coverage for Children, Youth, and Families?

The recently-passed budget reconciliation bill threatens children's futures by decimating a program that has for 60 years protected children’s health and strengthened communities—Medicaid. Instead of celebrating six decades of coverage, we are facing devastating cuts that will harm millions of children. Experts across research, policy, and practice will discuss the impact of the budget reconciliation bill on children’s population health and its impacts on states.

Thursday, November 6, 11:00 a.m. | Participatory Policymaking: Channeling Lived Expertise in Policy Development and Organizing

Join us for an intergenerational conversation with leaders in the work of participatory policymaking, working across issues related to racial identity and racial impact in social policy, youth justice and child welfare. Team members from Children’s Defense Fund-New York will share their practice of working with community to generate state-wide policy proposals and campaigns to advance racial equity, economic mobility, and support young people’s freedom from carceral systems and self-determination. Panelists will share actionable methods for collaborating with the community to develop breakthrough policy demands and campaigns, combining participatory action research, power-sharing with lived experts, and collective community action.

We look forward to seeing you at AYPF for stimulating conversations.

With gratitude,

Lauren W. Reliford, MSW

Director of Public Policy
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