Make a Difference for a Child
Provide a voice for children in the State Capitol. With your support, we can continue to educate and advocate for children. Your donation will educate policymakers about child safety needs.
Help Protect Children
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Please join the work of the Legislative Coalition as we advocate for laws to protect children from abuse. During the legislative session, we prioritize the needs of bills in progress. Now in the new year, we need your financial support for this child protection work.
Every child deserves safety. Yet children in the United States, including the over 9 million children in California, have a 1 in 4 chance of experiencing child abuse. By improving laws we reduce the number of children who suffer.
Be part of child protection work: Your generous donations make advocacy possible. Donating is easy, just click below. Funds go directly to and are used exclusively by the Legislative Coalition to Prevent Child Abuse.
Governor Newsom signed our priority child protection bill AB 3072 (Petrie-Norris) and it became law on January 1, 2025. This child homicide prevention bill requires judges at emergency hearings to consider whether a parent has access to illegal firearms and to consider pausing in-person contact with children during escalating violence. Work on this bill started in February of 2022 when Samantha (10), Samarah (9), and Samia Gutierrez (13) were shot to death by their father at a court-ordered visitation in Sacramento. The court was aware of the father’s ongoing violence and threats to kill the children. The family had pled with the court for protection. We are grateful to Assemblymember Petrie-Norris for authoring AB 3072 to protect children.
Please join the work of the Legislative Coalition as we advocate for laws to protect children from abuse. During the legislative session, we prioritize the needs of bills in progress. Now in the new year, we need your financial support for this child protection work.
Every child deserves safety. Yet children in the United States, including the over 9 million children in California, have a 1 in 4 chance of experiencing child abuse. By improving laws we reduce the number of children who suffer.
Be part of child protection work: Your generous donations make advocacy possible. Donating is easy, just click below. Funds go directly to and are used exclusively by the Legislative Coalition to Prevent Child Abuse.
Governor Newsom signed our priority child protection bill AB 3072 (Petrie-Norris) and it became law on January 1, 2025. This child homicide prevention bill requires judges at emergency hearings to consider whether a parent has access to illegal firearms and to consider pausing in-person contact with children during escalating violence. Work on this bill started in February of 2022 when Samantha (10), Samarah (9), and Samia Gutierrez (13) were shot to death by their father at a court-ordered visitation in Sacramento. The court was aware of the father’s ongoing violence and threats to kill the children. The family had pled with the court for protection. We are grateful to Assemblymember Petrie-Norris for authoring AB 3072 to protect children.
The work your donations support: We network with statewide child protection organizations and state agencies to get expert input and legislative support for child protection bills. We cooperate with legislative offices, offering researched legislative proposals, submitting supporting arguments to policy committees, legislators, and stakeholders, and mustering support for bills as they progress. We monitor moving bills and offer input to improve child protection.
Results: Our past advocacy has resulted in new protective laws to: mandate clergy to report child abuse; extend the statute of limitations for cases of child sexual abuse; require courts to consider a parent’s history of abuse before placing a child in unsupervised visitation with that parent; mandate training in child sexual abuse for all child custody evaluators; create legal liability for third parties who negligently or intentionally allowed children to be sexually abused; provide $4 to $8 million annually in Victims of Crime funding to unserved child and adult victims of abuse; restore $26 million to the Victim Restitution Fund to assist victims of crime and more.
However, this work to protect and assist children can only happen with your financial contributions.
Results: Our past advocacy has resulted in new protective laws to: mandate clergy to report child abuse; extend the statute of limitations for cases of child sexual abuse; require courts to consider a parent’s history of abuse before placing a child in unsupervised visitation with that parent; mandate training in child sexual abuse for all child custody evaluators; create legal liability for third parties who negligently or intentionally allowed children to be sexually abused; provide $4 to $8 million annually in Victims of Crime funding to unserved child and adult victims of abuse; restore $26 million to the Victim Restitution Fund to assist victims of crime and more.
However, this work to protect and assist children can only happen with your financial contributions.
Thank you for your generous donations to protect California’s children!
Special thanks for essential input from families impacted by abuse and my own family, friends, and colleagues!
Melissa Knight-Fine, Director
Special thanks for essential input from families impacted by abuse and my own family, friends, and colleagues!
Melissa Knight-Fine, Director
