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Are California's behavioral health investments getting kids what they need? 🤔

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we invite you to look through our latest report providing a roadmap for how we improve the behavioral health of California kids (link in bio).

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters

Want to know about the vital issues affecting California kids? 🤔

Join the CN Insider! You'll get updates on big policy wins for kids, insights from Children Now experts, stories about the power of advocacy, and highlights from the work we're doing to ensure every kid has what they need to reach their full potential. Become an Insider today! 👉 childrennow.org/newsletter (link also in bio)

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⌛ TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to double your impact and help The Children’s Movement win huge victories for kids! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

By uniting thousands of organizations to speak as one and demand action from our leaders, the Children’s Movement improves the lives of California kids. Campaigns have helped ​​reduce the cost of health care, preserve a life-saving support line for foster kids, protect kids’ mental health online, and so much more to lift up and support children. 💪

Today your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50,000). Help fight for California kids today at the link in our bio.

#ImpactGiving #GivewithPurpose #ChildrensMovementCA

Our statement on the May Revise budget proposal released today. 👆

#CABudget #CALeg #ProKidCA

Our statement on the May Revise budget proposal released today. 👆

#CABudget #CALeg #ProKidCA

874 (!!) organizations have signed on to make California's education system work better for kids! 🙌

Thank you @yourcbhn, @homey_sf, @fostergreatness, and all the organizations who've joined The Children's Movement campaign. 🫶

There is still time to add your organization today at childrennow.org/campaigns (link in bio)!

#CaliforniaEducation #EducationMatters #ChildrensMovementCA

⌛ You have just 2 more days to double your impact and help The Children’s Movement win huge victories for kids! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

By uniting thousands of organizations to speak as one and demand action from our leaders, The Children’s Movement improves the lives of California kids - including helping pass one of the nation's first laws to protect kids' mental health online. 🫶

Through tomorrow (May 15), your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50,000). Help fight for California kids today at the link in our bio.

#ImpactGiving #GivewithPurpose #ChildrensMovementCA

🌟 Thank You for a Powerful Spring Advocacy Day! 🌟

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for CALACAP’s 2026 Spring Advocacy Day — and a special thank you to Assemblymember Greg Hart and Assemblymember Dawn Addis for your leadership, insight, and commitment to improving mental health care for California’s children, youth, and families. Your engagement elevated the conversation and inspired meaningful dialogue and action. 👏🏾💚

Together, our members, trainees, and partners spent the day advocating for critical mental health policies and discussing some of the most pressing issues impacting children and families across California, including:
1. Protecting mental health parity and ensuring equal access to behavioral health care through AB 2011 (Hart)
2. Increasing transparency and accountability for insurance care denials through SB 363 (Wiener)
3. Supporting equitable, non-discriminatory access to health care through AB 1876 (Addis)
4. Promoting safer digital spaces and stronger online protections for children through AB 2246 (Wicks)
5. Opposing the proposed elimination of California’s statewide Medi-Cal Mobile Crisis Benefit for youth and families

Thank you to everyone who contributed your voice, expertise, and passion. Together, we are advancing meaningful change and supporting the mental health and well-being of California’s children and adolescents. 💚✨

#CALACAP #ChildPsychiatry #AdvocacyDay #MentalHealthMatters #CaliforniaYouth

⌛ You have just 3 more days to double your impact and help The Children’s Movement win huge victories for kids! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

By uniting thousands of organizations to speak as one and demand action from our leaders, The Children’s Movement improves the lives of California kids - including helping preserve a life-saving, 24/7 support line for foster kids and families. 🫶

Through this Friday (May 15), your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50,000). Help fight for California kids today at the link in our bio.

#ImpactGiving #GivewithPurpose #ChildrensMovementCA

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we're proud to champion policies that improve the mental health of California kids. 🙌

Yesterday at the Capitol, we joined fellow advocates @infocalacap and @cmadocs for Children's Mental Health Spring Advocacy Day and amplified the mental health needs of kids and youth to California's leaders. Thank you to all who attended and fought to get California kids the mental health supports they need! 🫶

#YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #CALeg

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we're proud to champion policies that improve the mental health of California kids. 🙌

Yesterday at the Capitol, we joined fellow advocates @infocalacap and @cmadocs for Children's Mental Health Spring Advocacy Day and amplified the mental health needs of kids and youth to California's leaders. Thank you to all who attended and fought to get California kids the mental health supports they need! 🫶

#YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #CALeg

⌛ You have just 4 more days to double your impact and help The Children’s Movement win huge victories for kids! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

By uniting thousands of organizations to speak as one and demand action from our leaders, the Children’s Movement improves the lives of California kids - including helping to reduce the cost of health care for half a million kids and families. 🫶

Through this Friday (May 15), your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50,000). Help fight for California kids today at the link in our bio.

#ImpactGiving #GivewithPurpose #ChildrensMovementCA

Make California’s education system work better for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️

For over a century, split leadership and blurred responsibility in California’s state-level public education system have made it difficult for students to get quick and effective support when they need it, hindering their ability to succeed.

The Children's Movement is fighting to change this. By aligning the California Department of Education under a new leadership structure that provides clearer guidance for schools and holds leaders accountable, effective solutions will be implemented faster and schools will get more consistent support. 💪

The Children’s Movement is more than 6,200 organizations strong. Add your organization and join this campaign TODAY at childrennow.org/campaigns (link in bio)

#CaliforniaEducation #EducationMatters #ChildrensMovementCA

Make California’s education system work better for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️

For over a century, split leadership and blurred responsibility in California’s state-level public education system have made it difficult for students to get quick and effective support when they need it, hindering their ability to succeed.

The Children's Movement is fighting to change this. By aligning the California Department of Education under a new leadership structure that provides clearer guidance for schools and holds leaders accountable, effective solutions will be implemented faster and schools will get more consistent support. 💪

The Children’s Movement is more than 6,200 organizations strong. Add your organization and join this campaign TODAY at childrennow.org/campaigns (link in bio)

#CaliforniaEducation #EducationMatters #ChildrensMovementCA

Make California’s education system work better for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️

For over a century, split leadership and blurred responsibility in California’s state-level public education system have made it difficult for students to get quick and effective support when they need it, hindering their ability to succeed.

The Children's Movement is fighting to change this. By aligning the California Department of Education under a new leadership structure that provides clearer guidance for schools and holds leaders accountable, effective solutions will be implemented faster and schools will get more consistent support. 💪

The Children’s Movement is more than 6,200 organizations strong. Add your organization and join this campaign TODAY at childrennow.org/campaigns (link in bio)

#CaliforniaEducation #EducationMatters #ChildrensMovementCA

⌛ You have just 5 more days to double your impact and help The Children’s Movement win huge victories for kids! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

By uniting thousands of organizations to speak as one and demand action from our leaders, the Children’s Movement improves the lives of California kids. Campaigns have helped ​​reduce the cost of health care, preserve a life-saving support line for foster kids, protect kids’ mental health online, and so much more to lift up and support children. 💪

Through this Friday (May 15), your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $50,000). Help fight for California kids today at the link in our bio.

#ImpactGiving #GivewithPurpose #ChildrensMovementCA