We are committed to reclaiming our country, our core values and spiritual foundation for our children and families. Too many children live in poverty and suffer from preventable illness, neglect, abuse, inadequate education and violence. These problems are solvable if we each do our part. Right now, our nation has the ability to:
- End child poverty (learn more);
- Guarantee every child and pregnant woman comprehensive health and mental health coverage and services (learn more);
- Protect every child from abuse and neglect and connect them to caring permanent families (learn more);
- Provide high quality early childhood care and development programs for all children (learn more);
- Ensure every child can read at grade level by fourth grade and guarantee quality education through high school graduation (learn more); and
- Stop the criminalization of children at increasingly younger ages and invest in prevention and early intervention (learn more).
The Children’s Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.