Budget Advocacy
The FY2026-7 budget year advocacy is underway.

We are committed to working with policymakers, families, professionals, and communities to accomplish the following:
Our Key Budget Priorities
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Make work pay for working families with young children.
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Increase access to affordable, quality child care for working families to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).
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Implement a refundable child tax credit for working parents with young children.
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Improve health outcomes for moms and babies.
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Increase access to evidence-based home visiting programs including expanding the Family Connects model statewide.
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Invest and scale community impact models like Cradle Cincinnati to encourage collaboration between women, clinicians, hospitals, managed care and other community partners to reduce infant and maternal mortality.
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Support quality early learning experiences that prepare children for Kindergarten.
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Invest in effective early childhood professionals to meet the growing needs of young children by improving payment practices to child care programs.
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Strengthen Early Development and Literacy Support: Increase state investment in Early Intervention (Part C) to ensure timely evaluations, assessments, and service coordination for infants and toddlers with developmental delays, while also expanding access to evidence-based early literacy initiatives, including curricula grounded in the science of reading and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Ohio.
Know the Issues:
A L L T E S T I M O N Y
Groundwork Ohio
Public Testimony
2025 • 136th General Assembly
Testimony from Advisory Council Members
2025 • 136th General Assembly
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February 27, 2025
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March 4, 2025
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March 5, 2025
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The Center for Community Solutions (Ohio House Health Committee​
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The Center for Community Solutions (Ohio House Medicaid Committee)
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The Center for Community Solutions (Ohio House Ways and Means Committee)
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Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (Ohio House Health Committee)
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Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (House Medicaid Committee)
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Southwest Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children
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March 11, 2025
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March 12, 2025​
Related Public
Testimony
Investments for Young Children
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February 27, 2025
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March 4, 2027​
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March 5, 2025​
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March 11, 2025​
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​March 12, 2025
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March 13, 2025​