2025 Policy Priorities for Child and Family Wellbeing

Every family should have access to high-quality, universal child care that meets their needs by providing the option of family- or center-based care in their community, ensuring that children thrive in culturally affirming care and education. Child care educators must be valued through sustained investment in the workforce. Learn more.

Children need safe, nurturing, and permanent families. Schuyler Center promotes policies that advance or maintain effective, high-quality systems that serve families, prevent entry into the child welfare system, and improve child wellbeing for children who are in care. When families have easy access to economic supports and trusted resources in their neighborhood, children thrive—even when their parents earn low incomes. Learn more.

Health is not just the absence of disease, but overall physical, mental, social, emotional, and community wellbeing. Investment in prevention, early intervention, and health coverage and access to care for children, caregivers, and families, will promote optimal health and development and mitigate the need for more intensive and costly interventions in the short- and long-term. Learn more.

Schuyler Center is working to eradicate the most common chronic disease in children – tooth decay. Children with tooth decay are unable to eat properly, concentrate in school, or focus beyond their pain. Poor oral health in childhood often means a lifetime of disease and expense. Learn more.