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Caroline Menjivar is a former member of the U.S. Marine Corps. Use of her military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Marine Corps or the Department of Defense.

"Service has always been my calling — whether as a Marine, EMT, social worker, and now as your State Senator. Every day, I'm transforming the challenges facing our communities into real solutions.Having experienced housing instability and witnessed the gaps in our public services firsthand, I know what's at stake. That's why I want to continue fighting to rewrite the rules that help our working families build the future we deserve.&nbsp; Join us!"- Senator Caroline Menjivar

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<h4>Senator Caroline Menjivar was elected to represent California’s 20th State Senate District in 2022. She quickly got to work advocating for Burbank and the San Fernando Valley by advancing policies that uplift working families.</h4>In her first two years, Senator Menjivar expanded health coverage for fertility treatment, including IVF, reversed cuts to childcare funding, and created common sense tenant protections for mom-and-pop small businesses and small non-profit organizations. As the Senate Health Chair, she’s focused on expanding access to quality health care and mental health services, protecting reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ equity, and worker safety.Senator Menjivar also serves as the Vice Chair of the California Legislative Women's Caucus and was previously the Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus Vice Chair and a California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls commissioner.<h3>Overcoming Difficult Odds in Pursuit of Service to Our Communities and Country</h3>Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Senator Menjivar watched her parents, immigrants from El Salvador, wake up every morning in their small Tarzana apartment and get ready for work tending to wealthier people’s needs. The apartment’s location afforded Senator Menjivar and her sister access to quality public schools and an upbringing surrounded by a support system of her aunts, uncles, and cousins.&nbsp;She excelled academically at Encino Elementary, Portola Middle School, and Reseda High School, where she enrolled in the Police Academy Magnet and the LA Fire Department Explorer Program and earned recognition as a basketball standout.&nbsp;Adversity struck when her parents separated, and her mom became the sole&nbsp;provider for their family. Her mom poured her savings into buying their first home, only to fall victim to the subprime mortgage crisis. When Senator Menjivar was 19, they were evicted and found themselves housing unstable.The economic downturn continued to interfere with Senator Menjivar’s dreams. After high school, she began pursuing a degree in Fire&nbsp;Technology and her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) license while working full-time. When she was ready to apply for the City of Los Angeles Fire Department, they froze hiring. Searching for a new way to serve, she enlisted in the Marine Corps and served from 2009 – 2016.Throughout Senator Menjivar’s teenage and young adulthood, she found herself at odds with her family’s religious values and their&nbsp;unacceptance of her sexual identity. Serving in the military under the&nbsp;“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”&nbsp;policy forced her to hide her relationship with her girlfriend, now wife. After the law’s repeal, she felt a huge burden lifted as she could invest herself authentically as a leader amongst her fellow Marines.After serving on active duty, Senator Menjivar earned her Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Northridge. She continued her education at UCLA, completing a Master of Social Welfare and earning the David Bohnett Fellowship that provided an opportunity to work in the Los Angeles Mayor’s Gender Equity Office. She also served as a city council field deputy and as East Valley Representative for the Mayor's office in the communities she represents now.As a social worker and EMT, Senator Menjivar saw firsthand the gaps in our mental health system toward vulnerable populations including the unhoused, domestic violence survivors, and senior citizens. These experiences have inspired her approach to creating policy that improves access to these crucial services.Senator Menjivar is a leading voice for LGBTQ+ visibility and equality. Prior to her election, she volunteered her time serving on the GLSEN Los Angeles Chapter Board and The Help Group’s Kaleidoscope Advisory Board. She also organized the San Fernando Valley’s first LGBTQ+ Pride Car Parade in 2020 that has now become an annual march and community event.Senator Menjivar is a homeowner in Panorama City, where she resides with her wife and two dogs. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, reading, and cheering on her favorite sports teams, including the Angel City Football Club, UCLA Women’s Basketball, Dodgers, and the Green Bay Packers.

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"When my family faced housing instability, I learned the importance of stable homes. When I lost job opportunities because of economic downturns, I discovered the power of resilience. When discriminatory policies prevented me from openly loving my wife, I found my voice as an advocate. I thrived because I had access to quality public schools, an opportunity to serve my country and community, and found a loving and accepting community in Burbank and the San Fernando Valley. As your State Senator, I'm working to ensure every family has those same opportunities.That's why I've turned our shared challenges into concrete change: expanding fertility treatment coverage for families building their futures, reversing childcare funding cuts so parents can work, and creating tenant protections so small businesses can thrive.&nbsp;Here's how we're rewriting the rules to build the future we deserve."Senator Caroline Menjivar<h2>Rewriting the Rules and Delivering Results</h2><h3>Health Care That Works Better for Families</h3><ul><li>Fertility Coverage for All Families: Breaking down barriers so working families can access fertility treatments like IVF, and ending discrimination against LGBTQ+ couples and single people trying to start families.</li><li>Better Mental Health Services: Opening new training programs to fast-track more school counselors into our classrooms, directly tackling California's critical shortage so kids get the mental health support they need.</li><li>Help for Homeless Youth: Making sure teenagers experiencing homelessness can get eye exams and glasses without needing the parental permission they can't get.</li></ul><h3>Protecting Families and Small Businesses from Eviction</h3><ul><li>Small Business Protections: Championing&nbsp;California's first comprehensive tenant protections for small businesses and nonprofits, requiring fair notice for rent increases and evictions, lease translations in five languages, and transparency on hidden fees.</li><li>Renter Protections: Created stronger safeguards for military families facing unfair deposit charges.</li><li>Faster Utility Reconnection: Requiring utilities to restore power within 24 hours when families make payment arrangements, and directing regulators to consider customers' ability to pay before cutting off essential services.</li><li>Keeping Families Together: Restoring $81 million to help homeless families reunify with their children instead of placing kids in foster care, increasing successful family reunifications by 20%.</li><li>Protecting Vulnerable Seniors: Bringing back $83.8 million for emergency housing assistance to older adults who are victims of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation.</li></ul><h3>Environmental Justice in Action</h3><ul><li>Banned Toxic Aviation Fuel: Leading the nation by becoming the first state to ban leaded aviation fuel, eliminating the last major source of lead pollution that disproportionately harms Latino and low-income communities.</li><li>Greener Schools: Breaking down financial roadblocks&nbsp;that stopped schools from building gardens, planting trees, and creating healthy outdoor learning environments to help protect students from extreme heat while enhancing learning.</li><li>Cleaner Water in San Fernando: Securing $3 million to fix the water treatment system so families in the City of San Fernando have clean, safe drinking water.</li></ul><h3>Strengthening Community Safety Nets</h3><ul><li>Protected Childcare: Saved funding for 11,000 childcare spots and secured a plan to create 200,000+ new slots by 2028.</li><li>Boosted Food Benefits: Increased monthly food assistance from $23 to $50 for our most vulnerable seniors.</li><li>Foster Care Improvements: Restored cuts to programs helping kids in foster care and created better support for families.</li><li>CalWORKs Protection: Blocked elimination of essential programs that provide job training, mental health services, addiction treatment, and family support for California's most vulnerable families.</li></ul><h3>Direct Investment in Our Neighborhoods</h3><ul><li>$500,000: For LA Family Housing to complete renovations to 75 units of interim housing at The Sieroty, Reseda.</li><li>$130,000: Refrigerated truck for community food services at Vida Community Center, Sun Valley</li><li>$747,000: Increase outside refrigeration capacity Meet Each Need with Dignity (MEND), Pacoima</li><li>$100,000: Necessary modernization renovations at American Legion Post 176, San Fernando which haven’t been made since 1953</li><li>$400,000: Equestrian trail master plan for the Northeast San Fernando Valley</li><li>$500,000: Roof repairs and air conditioning upgrades at the Alliance for Community Empowerment (ACE) in Canoga Park</li><li>$150,000: New roof for the Heartfelt Education Through the Arts (H.E.ARTS) in North Hollywood</li><li>$1 million: Support the acquisition of a commissary at ICON-CDC.</li><li>$3 million: Support construction of the Pacoima Justice and Job Training Center.These aren't just policy wins—they're real changes that improve life for families right here in our community.</li></ul>

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