CI Wrapped: Our Top Moments of 2024
Join us to reflect and another year of meaningful progress, partnerships, and impact for Oregon’s young children and families in 2024.
Action Alerts
Strengthen Early Learning and Care in Oregon!
Children's Institute believes that if we choose children, we can change the world. Join us by adding your name today!
Tell Senator Merkley to Increase Funding for Child Care!
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) provides federal funding for states for child care subsidies for low-income families with children under 13. Before their August recess, the House voted to increase funding for CCDBG by $2.4 billion. The Senate has...
35,000 Families in Oregon Could Lose Food Stamps
You may have heard that the Trump administration is seeking to change how states enroll people in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps. Learn more about the impact this will have on people—including...
Our Response to Proposed Changes to How We Calculate Poverty
Dana Hepper is Children's Institute's director of policy and advocacy. Below is her public comment on behalf of CI in response to the Trump Administration's proposed changes to how we calculate the federal poverty threshold. The Children’s Institute is writing in...
We Can’t Address Poverty by Changing the Definition of ‘Poor’
You may have read last month that the Trump administration has a plan to lower the poverty rate in America. The plan doesn't do anything to help low-income families. Instead, the administration is seeking to change the way we calculate the "official poverty...
Action Alert: Support Measure 101 at the Portland Kick-Off
Your income shouldn’t determine whether you can visit a doctor or nurse, or get medicine when you’re sick. Measure 101 protects health care for vulnerable Oregonians, including seniors, people with disabilities, and 400,000 children. That’s why Children's Institute...
Action Alert: Help Restore MIECHV Funding
MIECHV funds high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services in Oregon's voluntary home visiting system.You can help renew federal funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program by taking three actions. CALL your members of...
Action Alert: Stop the Budget Cuts to Children’s Education and Health
Stop the Budget Cuts to Children's Education and Health On Monday, April 17, the co-chairs of the state budget writing committee (Ways and Means) released a proposed budget that puts kids at risk. Reductions include: 20 percent cut to Early Learning...
Action Alert: Save the Affordable Care Act
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Thursday, March 23, 2017 to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to replace it with the American Health Care Act (AHCA). AHCA will lead to 14 million Americans losing their health care next year and another 10...