Protecting Medicaid is Protecting Children

One out of every three children in Arizona has health care through AHCCCS

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Defending SNAP is Preventing Child Hunger

SNAP is essential in helping families survive in this time of economic uncertainty and rising costs. No child and no Arizonan should go hungry

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2026 Kids Count Data Book

The 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book has been released. This is a resource to understand how children are doing across the country.

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Impacting lives.

Our 2026 Legislative Agenda

The 2026 Children’s Action Alliance Legislative Agenda works to ensure the community conditions necessary to allow all Arizona families to have equitable access to high-quality education, health care, child well-being, services, and employment. We strive to live in an Arizona where all children and families thrive.

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2026 Legislative and Policy Agenda

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Issues we support

We work to create an Arizona where every child is safe, loved, and has access to quality education and affordable health care.

AZ Kids Count Data Book

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Our signature resource, the Arizona KIDS COUNT Data Book, is the only Data Book that focuses on statewide data trends about children. The Data Book is one of many ways we inform and influence others to advance policies to benefit Arizona children.

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FY27 Budget Wins, Lost Opportunities, and Everything In Between

Every child matters. At Children’s Action Alliance, that belief guides our work every day and remains at the center of our advocacy during Arizona’s budget process. With the FY27 state budget now complete, we must first acknowledge that more investments in children and families are needed....

Arizona Ranks 40th in 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Uninsured Rate for Our Youngest Children Rising at an Alarming Pace

Help Us Get to 7,562 Letters to Help 7,562 Families

We are Better than Our Files, Our Placement, and Our Circumstances