Collective Action For Youth

🚨 Final Budget Vote: Sept 24 🚨
Harris County’s 2026 budget will shape our families, neighborhoods, and workplaces. This is about choosing people over politics and prevention over punishment.

📍 Join us:
➡️ 9AM breakfast & prayer at 410 Sul Ross
➡️ Carpool to Commissioners Court at 9:25AM

✍🏾 Register to speak (Agenda Item 1) & share your story

🗳️ On the 18th we showed up. On the 24th, we speak. Let’s make sure resources serve the people they were meant to.

Click the links in our bio to view the proposed budget & to sign up to speak on Thursday , September 24th.

Last week, we stood before Harris County Commissioners Court to oppose raises for constables—while the county faces a projected $270 million budget deficit (with some reports citing $200M+).

Despite this deficit, a 3–2 vote approved law enforcement pay raises—increasing constables’ salaries to nearly $293K/year.

Communities are paying the price:

🚸Vital early childhood programs—like free preschool slots and summer camps—risk shutdown because a proposed tax hike to sustain them failed.  

Our mobile mental health units—designed to keep police out of crisis responses—are now at risk.

🗣️ True safety = youth mentorship
🗣️ True safety = mental health resources
🗣️ True safety = community investment

The 2026 budget itself has not yet been passed—Commissioners Court received the proposal in mid-August, and a final vote is expected later this September. That means our voices still matter.

This is what democracy looks like. This is what community power looks like.

📢 Keep speaking out. Tell Commissioners: Houston needs a budget that invests in people, not just policing.