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2025 CFRA Policy Platform
The California Family Resource Association seeks to advance policies that foster stability for FRCs and address the needs of the families they serve. Since the last update of these Policy Priorities in 2020, California has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic and two changes in federal administration, as well as almost complete turnover in the state legislature.
In 2024, CFRA undertook a focused effort to update our Policy Priorities, through two focused member contributions in 2024: Town Hall Meetings in 6 regions around the state, and an FRC Program Design Work Group that developed shared definitions and criteria to inform a more concrete structure for future state funding proposals for FRCs. In January of 2025, CFRA held an in-person Policy Gathering at the Sierra Health Foundation in Sacramento that revisited our Policy Priorities based on review of data from these initiatives, as well as ongoing discussion in our Policy Committee, Advisory Committee, Networks Committee, and Member Updates.
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Below are the updated 2025 Policy Priorities identified.
Promote Comprehensive Family Supports
Family Resource Centers are crucial for a system of coordinated prevention, support, and services can ensure that families have what they need, when they need it, in their own communities. CFRA advocates for the sustainability and stability of FRCs and for equitable access to comprehensive family supports in all California communities.
Strengthening Family Economic Stability and Mobility
Family Resource Centers are catalysts for family and community economic vitality, through their combination of crisis supports, service brokering, economic empowerment, and community investment. CFRA supports and advances policies that strengthen family financial security and establish greater household stability and thus helps to create the conditions for children, families, and communities to thrive.
Prioritize Primary Prevention
Family Resource Centers proactively strengthen families through services and relationships that bolster “protective factors” that prevent child abuse, neglect, and other family crises: social connections, concrete supports, parental resilience, knowledge of child development, social and emotional competence of children, and attachment. CFRA supports upstream child abuse prevention strategies that connect and families to the supports and resources within their own communities, and advocates for FRCs as critical infrastructure for primary prevention
Advance Equity, Community-Building, Civic Engagement
Family Resource Centers are vehicles for social change toward greater justice and belonging, through their culturally responsive and affirming services, citizen leadership development, advocacy, and community collaboration and mobilization. CFRA supports FRCs in their community-building role and policies that protect and empower marginalized communities and individuals.