Rabbi Steve Gutow is president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, president and CEO of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and the founding executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council.

Sister Carol Keehan is president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association, which has worked to improve children’s health care coverage through a partnership with the Campaign for Children’s Health Care. Contact Fred Caesar.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children and elderly adults. Contact Mary Mahon or Bethanne Fox.

The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that champions policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation. The CDF often works closely with faith-based organizations to reach their goals.

KIDS COUNT is a highly respected source for data on child and family well-being in the United States. A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT provides state-by-state analysis of childhood well-being based on numerous indicators including economic well-being, education, family situation and health.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Contact senior communications manager Beau Boughamer.

Dr. Julia M. Bledsoe is a clinical professor of pediatrics in the department of pediatrics at the University of Washington. She is also a primary care, general pediatrician who specializes in adoption medicine.

Catherine Rymph is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri. Her areas of focus are recent history and women’s political history. She is the author of Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism From Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right.

The Rev. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is a professor of pastoral care at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. Her teaching specialties include issues in practical theology, pastoral care of women, crisis ministry, pastoral self-care, family systems theory and adoption. She wrote The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God’s Family. She is an […]