Advocacy
CAF partners with various agencies to advocate for policies that benefit communities. Together, we work on issues like housing, environmental justice, food security, and financial empowerment, ensuring that families' needs are heard and addressed.
CHERISH ACT Cumulative Harm to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health
The CHERISH Act will address the disproportionate environmental and public health harms that environmental justice communities in Maryland face from pollution generating facilities. For centuries, these facilities have been disproportionately and deliberately sited in minority and economically distressed communities in Maryland. Low-wealth, Black, and other communities of color in Maryland face greater cancer risks and exposure to air toxics due to higher pollution burden.
