CCC’s 2020-21 Annual Report highlights our research, civic and media engagement, and advocacy and draws attention to successes achieved despite unprecedented economic and political challenges.

Highlights of these successes include:

• Securing passage of city legislation that increased the value of city rent subsidies;
• Bringing an additional 60,000 infant-toddler child care seats to communities in need;
• Expanding 3-K to every district;
• Dramatically increasing access to summer enrichment programming;
• Protecting and expanding state funding for children’s behavioral health care and securing state legislation to advance equity in access to telehealth and early intervention services;
• Protecting state funding for child welfare prevention services to ensure children are safe and families remain together;
• Securing passage of state bills that increase the age of juvenile delinquency and provide New Yorkers who have been denied youthful offender status a chance to apply;
• Championing the federal expansion of the Child Tax Credit to ensure New York’s families benefit from the monthly child allowance; and
• Securing a citywide expansion of the Save for College program that will provide savings accounts to every public-school kindergartener starting this school year.