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Feed Today, Lead Tomorrow: End Child Hunger Now!

At home there’s cereal but no milk. Instead of fresh fruit, children are eating fruit snacks and drinking fruit soda. Missed meals, malnourishment and junk food day after day: This is how almost 17 million children live with hunger.

You can help. Join our sign on letter in support vital federal feeding programs and we’ll automatically send a copy to your representatives in Congress. Learn more about the issue in Voices’ child nutrition brief. And watch Voices.org for more information and opportunities to help needy children!

Support state child services!

Congress has little time left to bolster federal support for state child services. The stimulus package passed in the spring of ‘09 temporarily increased federal funding for vital child services like Medicaid and education, preventing cuts when families depended on them most. But the bump to that rate (known as FMAP) is set to expire, even with families still reeling from the recession.

Contact your senators and tell them:
• Support FMAP, because it supports health, education and other vital state services for children.
• Move quickly, before Congress recesses, so special aid to children and families doesn’t expire.

Call your senators at 1-866-277-7617, because children need your voices!

Voices cheers the passage of health reform!

The health care bill bolsters Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, covers the uninsured, ends insurer discrimination against preexisting conditions for children and helps children and families in countless other ways.

Thanks to all of you who wrote or called your legislator so that children’s needs could be heard!

Pass Juvenile Justice Reform

For more than 35 years, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided crucial protections for youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system. These protections include keeping youth in the juvenile justice system out of adult jails and lock-ups, ensuring that non-delinquent status offenders (such as children who are truant, runaway or violate curfew laws) are not placed in locked juvenile detention or correction facilities; providing mental health and drug treatment programs; and addressing the disproportionate representation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system.

Support reauthorization of the JJDPA to prevent service cuts and ensure federal assistance for effective youth programs.  Write your representative today!