Listen to Chris Bedford in conversation with Charlie Melcher for the Future of Storytelling podcast about redefining museums, their sustainability, and how we can better serve our public.

A milestone achievement in ensuring California’s most vulnerable populations get immediate access to “whatever it takes” mental health care.

Mike’s appointment ensures that the voices of children and families are represented at the highest levels of Medi-Cal decision-making. His leadership will help shape how California’s Medicaid policies and services evolve to better meet the needs of the state’s youngest and most vulnerable populations.

As part of their ongoing commitment to improve youth mental health, Children Now has partnered with Blue Shield California to conduct the BlueSky Youth Mental Health Survey.

Children Now delivered a Children’s Movement Letter signed by more than 380 organizations across California urging Governor Newsom to sign the Digital Assurance Act and keep kids safer online while dramatically helping their mental health.

Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested over $474 million to support the most effective organizations, advance policies that address poverty at scale, and identify and develop new ideas that increase economic opportunity.

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet dancer makes the case.

Neil Chase, CEO, said “it is deeply meaningful to be cited for this work by people who know better than anybody else what we do and why it matters.”

The landscape of state-funded mental health services has been shifting in California.

CalMatters marks 10 years of nonpartisan, independent journalism that Californians depend on to build a better future.

HR1, which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, will create profound problems for California’s entire health care system and health coverage for children, youth and families.

Wendy Kopp shared with CNBC her ideas on leadership and what needs to change in the way we educate children, including the role of AI. And she made clear there is still a lot of work left to be done.

California’s economic future depends on a skilled workforce capable of adapting to rapid change.

Today, Project Healthy Minds’ bread and butter consists of three buckets: changing attitudes around mental health, expanding access to mental health services, and using data to influence broader systems.

Luminary closes its first $10M fund, our first seven investments and grants, and the first gathering of leaders across the field. Most of all, we celebrate the opportunity to improve family mental health in this country at a time when it’s needed most.

Potential cuts to Medicaid have Californians bracing for changes that could weaken recent gains in mental health care and addiction treatment.

Millions of Californians access behavioral health services annually through the State’s public mental health system.

Fueled by Pinterest, the Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation, and lululemon, career exploration nonprofit Roadtrip Nation is sending three young adults interested in mental health and wellbeing on a free, life-changing road trip across the United States.

The 2025 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being is an interactive tool that delivers a current and comprehensive picture of children’s health, education, and welfare in every one of California’s 58 counties.  

Children Now just launched redesigned website