California just took a major step forward in making AI safer for kids. 🙌 Yesterday we were proud to join @CAgovernor as he signed into law a package of bills that make kids' interactions with AI and online safer. That includes "Adam's Law" (SB 1119 - Padilla, Wicks, Bauer-Kahan), requiring chatbots to pass independent safety audits and connect kids to crisis support, SB 867 (Padilla), suspending the sale of AI-enabled toys for 4 years while California determines the best safety standards, and AB 2246 (Wicks), updating the California Age Appropriate Design Code to protect children under 18 from online experiences that endanger them. 💪 Thank you Governor Newsom, @SenStevePadilla, @AsmBuffyWicks, @BauerKahan, and the California Legislature for taking this bold action to protect our kids. This is a victory for California kids and marks a clearer path forward to making AI safer for our children. 🫶 Learn more about all the bills signed yesterday protecting kids online and when using AI here 👉 bit.ly/3UD1dm2 #CALeg

Want to learn what California's historic education governance reform means for students, families, and schools? 🤔👇 Join us in one week for the California Education Promise Alliance’s webinar, “California’s Education Governance Reset”! Next Thursday, Oct 1 from 3-4:30pm PST, you'll hear how the new law changes California’s education system, what it means for the future of public education, and the work ahead to ensure effective implementation. Register today and we'll see you there! 👉 bit.ly/caedgovreset @paralosninosorg @edpolicyinca

A year ago today, The Children's Movement came together to protect kids' mental health online. 🫶👇 After more than 380 organizations across California voiced their support for safer online spaces for kids, collectively sending a letter to the Governor urging him to sign the Digital Age Assurance Act, on September 22 of last year it became law. That means from now on in California, kids will be better protected from harmful online content since device manufacturers and app stores are now required to verify a user’s age and share it with the online products and services kids use. 👏 Passing the Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043 - @AsmBuffyWicks) was a vital step towards ensuring kids have online experiences that are age-appropriate, free of harmful behaviors, and positively impact their mental health. Learn more about The Children's Movement campaign to protect kids' mental health online here 👉 bit.ly/4xYL3CB #YouthMentalHealth #CALeg #ChildrensMovementCA

Want to learn what California's historic education governance reform means for students, families, and schools? 🤔👇 Join us for the California Education Promise Alliance’s upcoming webinar, “California’s Education Governance Reset”! On Thursday, Oct 1 from 3-4:30pm PST, you'll hear how the new law changes California’s education system, what it means for the future of public education, and the work ahead to ensure effective implementation. Register today and we'll see you there! 👉 bit.ly/caedgovreset @paralosninosorg @edpolicyinca

Thank you @CAgovernor for signing AB 2486 into law and helping kids with special health care needs to continue to get care. 🙌👇 AB 2486 (Addis) extends the operation of the CCS Advisory Group, vital for the Department of Health Care Services to receive feedback on the 200,000 children and youth with special health care needs the CCS program serves, through January 1, 2037. Thank you @AsmDawnAddis for your leadership in getting this critical bill across the finish line! 🫶 Learn more about how AB 2486 will support California kids here 👉 bit.ly/4cga5UT #CALeg #ProKidCA

Want to learn what California's historic education governance reform means for students, families, and schools? 🤔👇 Join us for the California Education Promise Alliance’s upcoming webinar, “California’s Education Governance Reset”! On Thursday, Oct 1 from 3-4:30pm PST, you'll hear how the new law changes California’s education system, what it means for the future of public education, and the work ahead to ensure effective implementation. Register today and we'll see you there! 👉 bit.ly/caedgovreset @paralosninosorg @edpolicyinca

“These high-profile, really horrific events were like ‘Whoa, policymakers gotta act.'"👇 Last week, after years of parents witnessing the dangers that social media and AI pose to kids, @CAgovernor signed into law a package of bills that make kids’ interactions with AI and online safer. Children Now President @tedlempert spoke with @jocelynwiener at @CalMatters about the advocacy and momentum needed to get these bills across the finish line and the work still needed to be done - we invite you to read here 👉 bit.ly/4gRIawS #ResponsibleAI #ChildOnlineSafety #ProKidCA

Our kids deserve to grow up free from intrusive technologies that could cause harm. The actions I just announced are a commitment to kids throughout California to protect them from addictive social media features, unregulated companion chatbots, and more.

"Adam's Law," named after Adam Raine, puts stronger safeguards in place for kids using AI chatbots, including protections for children in crisis, parental controls, and alerts when safety settings are turned off. I want to thank Adam's mother, Maria, for her tireless work getting us to this moment. You are a manifestation of what moms represent. California will not stand by while unregulated technology puts our children at risk. Innovation comes with responsibility, and protecting our children comes first.

I just signed legislation banning addictive social media features like infinite scroll for users under 16 and regulating chatbot companion usage by minors. California will not stand by while unregulated technology puts our children at risk.

Yesterday, through The Children's Movement, more than 280 organizations collectively called on the Governor to make AI safer for kids. 👏👇 AI chatbots are being built into toys for kids as young as three and feeding them dangerous advice while positioning themselves as friends to be trusted. Through The Children's Movement, more than 280 organizations used their collective voice to change this, sending letters to the Governor urging him to sign SB 1119 and SB 867, both of which make kids' interactions with chatbots safer. Thank you to all the organizations who joined this campaign! Learn more about the campaign and read both letters sent to the Governor here 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 #CALeg #ChildrensMovementCA

🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️ Make AI safer for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 AI chatbots are being built into toys for kids as young as three and feeding them dangerous advice while positioning themselves as friends to be trusted. The Children's Movement is fighting to stop this. Two bills protecting kids from AI are on Governor Newsom's desk and the Children's Movement is urging him to sign both. The Children's Movement is more than 6,500 organizations strong. Add your voice and join the campaign TODAY 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 #CALeg #ChildrensMovementCA

Protect Head Start by calling on the federal administration to end its plan to strip away Head Start's quality standards TODAY!👇 Head Start is one of the country's most effective programs for young children facing poverty, supporting over 70,000 California kids today. Yet right now, the federal administration has proposed stripping away most of the standards that keep Head Start programs effective, safe, comprehensive, and accountable to the families they serve. It would mean cutting classroom safety and staffing ratios, stripping protections for children with disabilities and dual language learners, and requiring English-only instruction. It would also hit rural communities especially hard, where Head Start is often the only affordable and available child care option. These proposed changes won't take effect, though, until a final rule is made. Public comments to the Department of Health & Human Services are allowed from now through October 6. Join us in voicing support for Head Start and demanding its standards are kept in tact here 👉 bit.ly/4gV42GD #HeadStartWorks #ProtectHeadStart #SupportECE

🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️ Make AI safer for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 AI chatbots are being built into toys for kids as young as three and feeding them dangerous advice while positioning themselves as friends to be trusted. The Children's Movement is fighting to stop this. Two bills protecting kids from AI are on Governor Newsom’s desk and the Children's Movement is urging him to sign both. The Children's Movement is more than 6,500 organizations strong. Add your voice and join the campaign TODAY 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 #CALeg #ChildrensMovementCA

🙋🏽‍♀️ 🙋🏿 🙋🏼‍♂️ Make AI safer for kids and join the new Children's Movement campaign TODAY! 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 AI chatbots are being built into toys for kids as young as three and feeding them dangerous advice while positioning themselves as friends to be trusted. The Children's Movement is fighting to stop this. Two bills protecting kids from AI are on Governor Newsom’s desk and the Children's Movement is urging him to sign both. The Children's Movement is more than 6,500 organizations strong. Add your voice and join the campaign TODAY 👉 bit.ly/44dWD07 #CALeg #ChildrensMovementCA

We are one signature away from creating better pathways to become a teacher! 🫶👇 AB 1904 (@AsmMikeGipson) will help create teacher apprenticeship programs that provide mentorship and compensation, building a stronger, more diverse teacher pipeline to better meet the needs of California's students. @CAgovernor, we urge you to sign AB 1904! Learn more about how AB 1904 will support California kids here 👉 bit.ly/4sR5QEc #CALeg #ProKidCA #CaliforniaEducation

We are one signature away from delivering disaster aid to foster youth! 🫶👇 When natural disasters strike, children and youth in foster care don't always get the support they need to recover. AB 1602 (@Rubio4Assembly) would establish a statewide Child Welfare Disaster Response Fund to ensure youth currently or formerly in foster care and their caregivers have timely access to critical resources when disasters strike. @CAgovernor, we urge you to sign AB 1602! Learn more about how AB 1602 would support children and youth in foster care and their caregivers here 👉 bit.ly/4xplQkg #CALeg #ProKidCA #FosterCare

Protect Head Start by calling on the federal administration to end its plan to strip away Head Start's quality standards TODAY!👇 Head Start is one of the country's most effective programs for young children facing poverty, supporting over 70,000 California kids today. Yet right now, the federal administration has proposed stripping away most of the standards that keep Head Start programs effective, safe, comprehensive, and accountable to the families they serve. It would mean cutting classroom safety and staffing ratios, stripping protections for children with disabilities and dual language learners, and requiring English-only instruction. It would also hit rural communities especially hard, where Head Start is often the only affordable and available child care option. These proposed changes won't take effect, though, until a final rule is made. Public comments to the Department of Health & Human Services are allowed from now through October 6. Join us in voicing support for Head Start and demanding its standards are kept in tact here 👉 bit.ly/4gV42GD #HeadStartWorks #ProtectHeadStart #SupportECE

We are one signature away from getting kids access to hearing aids! 🙌👇 More than 20,000 deaf and hard of hearing kids in California don’t have access to hearing aids through their health insurance. SB 331 (@SenatorMenjivar) will mandate coverage in large group health plans to ensure kids receive timely access to hearing aids. @CAgovernor, we urge you to sign SB 331! Learn more about how SB 331 will support California kids here 👉 bit.ly/4pY8MPL #CALeg

We are one signature away from helping kids fight cavities - @CAgovernor, we urge you to sign AB 350!👇 Fluoride varnish helps prevent cavities, and AB 350 (Bonta) will allow more kids to get it at school and other settings by letting those working for or under contract with a Medi-Cal doctor or dentist to apply fluoride varnish and get reimbursed. Learn more about how AB 350 will support California kids here 👉 bit.ly/49TcMKu #CALeg #ProKidCA #KidsOralHealth @AsmMiaBonta