Understanding what your investment allows CCC to do for NYC children: 

Expand Access to Behavioral Health Care: 50% of New York youth report symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorders and suicide rates among children have grown by 30% over the last decade. Only 42% of youth participants in our Voicing Our Future Youth Survey, who reported wanting or needing mental health services from a professional, also reported getting it. Your gift of $75,000 or more could allow us to further our advocacy to improve access to mental health resources and supports, build a workforce pipeline and bring fiscal stability to providers of service.  

Prioritize Housing Supports for Families: More than 1 in 4 households in New York City spend 50% or more of their income on rent, and in households with incomes at or below the poverty level, more than half of households are severely rent burdened. Your gift of $50,000 or more could help us advance policy and budget solutions that ensure families access affordable housing and that eviction prevention and rental subsidies are better leveraged to keep people housed.     

Expand Access to High Quality Child Care: 35% of women aged 25–54 living with children reported being out of work due to childcare responsibilities during the pandemic. 
Your gift of $25,000 or more could help us expand access to childcare, afterschool and summer programs, which are critical to age-appropriate learning and development for children, keep caregivers connected to employment and prevent long-term loss of wages. 

Support Students Living in Shelter or Doubled Up: Over 100,000 NYC school students reside in temporary housing or doubled up with relatives or friends. Among the 30,000 individuals that comprise the family shelter population, 50% are under 14 years old and 94% are Black or Hispanic. Research demonstrates that housing instability impacts school attendance and impedes educational attainment and on-time completion of high school. Your gift of $15,000 or more could support our advocacy to expand access to services that help students and families in shelters navigate the school system, address barriers to attendance, and achieve educational progress. 
 
Promote Economic Mobility: Extreme inequality keeps hundreds of thousands of children living below the Federal Poverty level. Many of these families lost a vital resource, impacting their ability to pay for food, housing, and more, when the Federal Child Tax Credit expansion was rolled back last year. Your gift of $10,000 or more could support our efforts to expand access to asset building opportunities that put children and families on a path to achieve financial security and upward mobility, including connecting families to child savings accounts or advocating for the expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC).  

Invest in Youth Opportunity: 62% of youth (ages 18 to 24) reported a loss of employment income during the pandemic and many struggled to access extracurricular support for tutoring, internships, and job opportunities. Your gift of $5,000 or more could help us continue to advocate for investments in youth programs that provide access to mentors, job opportunities, and additional services that are important to all youth, but in particular, justice-involved youth and youth in foster care.
 
Invest in Families and Communities: Over 33,000 children receive child welfare prevention services annually, and during the pandemic these services helped families meet basic needs for food, cash assistance, clothing, Wi-Fi, and computers, legal services, and behavioral health care, among others. Your gift of $2,500 or more support our advocacy to expand primary and prevention services that strengthen families and promote safety and stability.

All gifts support our expert public policy advocacy, our research and data products, and civic engagement -- enabling us to continue our fight to ensure that every child is healthy, housed, educated and safe.