End Child Poverty CA

🔷Earlier this week .Bonta hosted a select committee hearing on Place-Based Systems and Coordinated Care for Children and Families.

🔶We had the honor to hear from Yahaira Carolina and her daughter Daviana, who found after leaving Venezuela two years ago.

📣🙌🏽Place-based systems ( networks) are community connection points that WORK to support families!🌈

✅They work to fight poverty.
✅They work to fight hunger.
✅They work to find housing & jobs.
✅They work to let families live with dignity.

🌈 networks impact whole communities.

📣❗️❗️When we invest in the tools children and youth need, not only do they thrive, but they take the opportunity to give back to their community.

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🙏🏽❤️Thank you Yahaira Carolina & Daviana for sharing your stories. Your words and your work are what keeps us moving

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🌈Our own Emmerald Evans sharing the vital work of the Coalition.

📣❤️ All children and families deserve dignity, love, and respect. Place-based program bring these values to life within communities.

📣 We hope that you will be able attend the upcoming select committee on Place Based Systems for Children and Families, chaired by !

📆 The inaugural hearing will take place, December 4th from 10:00am – 2:00pm in Room 437 of the State Capitol.

🗣️This hearing is a wonderful opportunity to get a first-hand understanding of these powerful partnership and their unique role as place-based strategies to fight poverty. As well, to hear how they are leveraging existing investments – including the state’s 2022 one-time investment – and options to strengthen and expand the state’s place-based anti-poverty infrastructure and close equity gaps across California.

🔶Native peoples have been here. Are here. Will continue to be.

🔸 is home to more people of Native American and Native Alaskan heritage than any other state in the country.

🔶The diversity of Indigenous people in California includes those native to California and immigrants who have brought their own cultures here.

⭐️⭐️Thank you, for creating two pilot programs in for former . ⭐️⭐️

🌈Our goal is for all our children to be secured, valued and free.

🖊️Policies like this
✅Fight poverty.
✅Help end racial wealth gap.
✅Give youth hope for a bright future.

Celebrating multigenerational organizing! Movements are built by communities and families, in all of our complexity and beauty.

In California, we are blessed to have movement leaders like Camila Chavez and Dolores Huerta. What an amazing mother-daughter team that also includes so much of their family!

Dolores co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. Her daughter Camila Chavez is the executive director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, whose mission is inspire and organize communities to build volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice.

April 10 is Dolores Huerta Day. There’s plenty of time to prepare. Find a student-friendly curriculum at Dolores Huerta.org.

“I want students to get a sense of their own empowerment and the things that they can do to make the world a better place.” - Dolores Huerta

Image shows Camila Chavez on the left in a black, tailored suit jacket and pink blouse. Dolores Huerta is on the right, in a bright blue suede jacket, black blouse, and turquoise necklace. Both are emailing. A colorful mosaic tile wall is in the background.

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We all deserve to be nourished. World Food Day digital session Tuesday on food policy!

Did you know?? GRACE + End Child Poverty CA are ministries of the Daughters of Charity, who have been doing anti-poverty work since they started in the 1600s in France.

Our Andrew Cheyne, Managing Director of Policy, will be briefing the Daughters and anyone who wants to attend to find out more about policies that can help nourish our families and children.

Click over to grab the registration link: https://www.facebook.com/events/974644070313521

The United States incoming Senator from California, Laphonza Butler, shares her personal story of the real struggles parents and children face while experiencing .

These are the faces of HOPE. 💕

🐣💵❣️ We are full steam ahead to get up and running for our kids. Baby Bonds—aka HOPE Accounts, in California—are small pots of money for kids that grow over time. They will help undo the racial wealth gap. And they’ll let youth invest in bright futures.

In California, we are the first in the nation to have a baby bonds program at this scale. Our HOPE Accounts will support kids from families with little money who lost a parent or main caregiver to COVID, qualifying foster youth, and others.

Yesenia, Angelica, and Andrew repped the GRACE & at the HOPE Accounts planning committees in September.

Thanks so much to ’s LA office for hosting and lending support!

💔Our beloved Yesenia Jimenez's father died this weekend.

Yesenia is a crucial member of the GRACE family & a fierce advocate who brings her whole self to our work. We extend all our love & support.

Here's a chance to return the support she's given all of us. ⬇️💞⬇️

From Yesenia:

I write to you to share the tragic passing of my dad, Francisco Antonio Jimenez. My dad unexpectedly passed away in Tijuana, Mexico on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 while at work. Unfortunately, the circumstances of his passing have added additional stressors as our family makes arrangements from the United States. Our family is taking the necessary steps to transport our father’s remains to his native Maya lands in San Rafael La Independencia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

We welcome your prayers, condolences, and well wishes. Given the circumstances of my father’s passing, my siblings and I are kindly requesting communal financial support as we navigate multiple immigration systems to properly bury our dad. In community, I know we can move mountains and I thank you in advance for your support.

You may access our GoFundMe page at: https://gofund.me/6f39cea9 . To avoid transaction fees, you can also venmo us at -Jimenez-10 or Zelle us at (747) 229-1771.

With love,
Frank, Mary, David, Yesenia, Diana, Anthony

Donating in Memory of Francisco Antonio Jimenez, organized by Yesenia Jimenez Update: Thursday, September 14, 2023 Dear Family and Friends, … Yesenia Jimenez needs your support for Donating in Memory of Francisco Antonio Jimenez

⭐️End Child Poverty CA CEO & discuss vital policy priorities to advance California toward a future of shared prosperity and lift children and families out of poverty.
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California needs a big policy rethink - Capitol Weekly OPINION - In a state as large and important as California, it makes little sense for us to continue allowing ourselves to be so vulnerable to the vagaries of each shifting budget cycle. Instead, it makes much more sense to develop a more strategic, long-term social investment approach.