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Budget and Policy Advocacy

Promise 4: The government will spend public money well and in the best interest of children and youth

Government has a responsibility to effectively and efficiently manage all of its resources, to be a good steward, maximizing resources and directing them where they are needed most. Internal operational fixes must be a priority of the city's new leadership; these fixes will ultimately lead to better outcomes and results for children and youth, particularly since the necessary fixes involve systems reforms and a meaningful and transparent budget process.

Budget advocacy

FY 2008

• DC ACT submits testimony for the record on the Department of Health's Medical Assistance Administration's FY 2008 Budget. (April 24, 2007)

Policy advocacy

• DC ACT submits statement for the record on Bill 17-0076, “Department of Health Care Finance Establishment Act of 2007” (June 19, 2007) (PDF)

Publications and Tools

• Leveraging the Council for kids: Children and the City Council (February 2008) (PDF)
  matches up City Council committees and the agencies for which they have oversight responsibility. You will learn, for example, that the Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs (Barry, chair) has responsibility for youth violence prevention programs and lead inspections. The Committee of the Whole oversees school feeding programs.



• DC ACT Board’s Public Statement on Fenty School Takeover (June 12, 2007) (PDF)



• DC ACT presents highlights of FY 2008 proposed budget. Is it good for kids? You decide. (March 2007)



• Things you should know about the FY 2007 Children's Budget Report proposed by Mayor Williams (April 2006)



• Nicety or Necessity? A Children's Budget in the District of Columbia (March 2006)



• Where is the money? (November 2002)

Publications and Tools from others

• DC ACT comments on interagency collaboration/commission component of Mayor Fenty’s education reform legislation
  In this statement for the record, DC ACT director Angela Jones Hackley reaffirms DC ACT’s commitment to a cabinet level agency for child- and youth-related agency management and oversight. Ms. Hackley provides both general comments that speak to the need for cabinet-level focus and specific comments on the sections of the legislation.



• FY 2007 Children's Budget Report from the District government
  
  

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments or would like more information about our work in the area of safe children, please contact Susie Cambria at 202-234-9404 or scambria@dckids.org.