2026 Legislative Advocacy in Kansas
Promoting Just Laws for All of Us
Our board members and staff members work as a whole, utilizing their specialties for a united plan of impact.
- Data. We research and analyze statistics, target their roots, and craft reports that explain their effects on our state.
- Solutions. Our team identifies attainable answers and reforms that legislators at all levels can understand and support.
- Social. We speak with the affected, matching their truths to statistics so that legislators and the public understand the human impact.
- Political. We appear before legislators to educate and motivate them.
- Litigation. If education doesn’t move policymakers toward positive results, we turn to litigation for those who suffer under systemic failures.
- Organization. Our reports connect dots for like-minded organizations and citizens, giving them the tools to help create change in Kansas.
We do all of this with the firm belief that by working together, we can all build a more thriving, inclusive, and just Kansas.
2026 Policy Priorities
Child Welfare
The Kansas foster care system, in its current form, creates strains on stakeholders throughout. It is not good for children, families, social workers, attorneys, judges, administrators, health care workers, or foster parents trying to keep children safe. The system, as is, doesn’t represent our values as Kansans. We should take every opportunity to create a foster system that is effective for everyone involved and centers the well-being of foster children at the forefront of the work.
Youth & Adult Justice
All Kansans should benefit from a fair and effective system of justice. When our state invests in restoration, instead of incarceration, it invests in Kansans. The positive results are clear; the investments made into the youth justice system show evidence-based programs not only work more effectively, but saves Kansans money compared to detention. We need to keep moving forward in our efforts to expand programs, and establish policies to better support youths’ success. We must continue to build on this foundation of restoration and support for a justice system that is safer for all Kansans.
Child Nutrition
One in five Kansas kids are food insecure, meaning they may not know when or where they may get their next meal. No Kansas kid should go hungry, not now and not ever. Food insecurity makes it harder for kids to concentrate, grow, and stay healthy, which limits their ability to reach their full potential. When school is in session, Kansas children rely on school breakfast and lunch to stay nourished and ready to learn.
When school is out, many of those same children lose access to the consistent meals they count on. Strong school feeding programs, paired with strong summer nutrition options, help ensure that kids do not fall through the cracks simply because the calendar changes.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
With a motto like Ad Astra per Aspera, it is in Kansans’ blood to shoot for the stars regardless of our hardships. Kansans are among the hardest workers in our nation– feeding the world and feeding our families. But too often, Kansans can’t make ends meet. With 1 in 7 Kansans struggling to put food on the table, we must work together to ensure all of us can shoot for the same stars. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the primary way we tackle hunger in Kansas.
Help Us Advocate for a Better Kansas!
Advocacy starts at the grassroots, and it succeeds in the halls of power. Working together, we can build a state full of thriving, inclusive, and just communities for all Kansans.
