Ending Conversion Therapy

Children's Rights, Civil Rights, Healthcare

Conversion therapy—efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression—is a practice that is not supported by credible evidence and has been disavowed by behavioral health experts and associations. Conversion therapy perpetuates...

Messaging on the Climate Crisis

Climate, Energy, and the Environment

We are facing a climate crisis that threatens the future of life on Earth. 2023 was the hottest year on record. We need to talk about climate change more than ever. Speak up for the Planet: Your guide to having climate change conversations (PDF) Welcome to Climate...

Paid Maternity Leave

Healthcare

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) was a key piece of federal legislation that secured the right of working Americans to take up to 12 unpaid weeks off of work for the birth of their child and more. However, nearly 30 years later, our country has fallen...

Publicly Funded Behavioral Crisis Centers

Civil Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, Drug Policy, Healthcare

In spite of efforts to improve mental health systems of care, for many decades those living with mental illness have suffered devastating proportions of mistreatment. Overcrowded state hospitals and attempts to acknowledge the civil rights of their occupants led to...

Homeschooling Policy

Children's Rights, Education

In this policy webinar, Board Chair of of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education Carmen Longoria-Green explain sthe history of Parental Rights Extremism (PRE), from its birth as a reaction to school integration, to its use of the homeschool movement to grow its...