First Responders to Poverty

California’s county eligibility workers serve our communities every day as

First Responders to Poverty!

Thank you

for this year’s bold investments in our First Responders to Poverty!

California state leaders chose to save lives with investments in the safety net and in the workers who keep it going.

THANK YOU:

Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker Robert Rivas Senate and President pro Tempore Monique Limón
Budget Chairs Asm. Gabriel and Sen. Laird
Subcommittee Chairs Asm. Addis, Asm. Jackson and Sen. Menjivar
Champion Legislators Asm. Schiavo, Asm. Sharp-Collins, Sen. Arreguín

The FY 26-27 state budget agreement is a powerful rebuke against a federally-inflicted hunger and health care crisis under H.R.1. CWDA is committed to continuing to work with the Administration and Legislature to sustain these life-saving investments.

You can read more here.

PUSHBACK AGAINST FEDERAL CUTS:

County Eligibility Workers are California’s best defense now against millions in our communities losing food and health care from cuts made by President Trump and Congress.

The State estimates that 2.8 million Medi-Cal enrollees and nearly 1 million CalFresh recipients will need a worker to keep their lifesaving health care and food.

We will never stop fighting to support our community members to access life saving services.

BATTLE-TESTED

Time and again, we’ve helped Californians facing crisis stay connected to food and health care.

We’ve helped expand access to Medi-Cal for 4.5 million more people and CalFresh for 2 million more people over the last decade. We refuse to give up that progress now. With support from Governor Newsom and our state lawmakers, we can still make a difference.

LIFE-SAVING DIFFERENCE

Dinner on the table or an empty stomach?
Visit the doctor today or the ER later?

We are in every community & have the know-how to shield families from crisis. Our community knows and depends on us to have their backs. But we need Governor Newsom and state lawmakers to have our backs, too.