Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children is a strong, effective and trusted voice to improve the health, education and well-being of children and youth in the Commonwealth. PPC is statewide, independent, non-partisan and non-profit.
By 2014, PPC has helped Pennsylvania move into position as one of the top 10 states in the nation to be a child and to raise a child.
To achieve its vision, PPC seeks substantial gains toward these public policy goals:
All children enter school ready to learn.
All children have access to health care that assures their healthy development.
All children and youth are raised in loving and knowledgeable families free from abuse and neglect.
All children have access to effective after-school and youth development programs.
All children have access to high-quality public education through post-secondary completion.
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Operation Restart
 Pennsylvania is home to more than 30,000 teenagers who leave high school every year without the most basic education credential – the diploma. Every school day, 166 Pennsylvania high school students drop out and set themselves up for a life of insufficient earnings and possible government dependency because they have failed to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to earn a self/family-sustaining wage or compete in a 21st century marketplace.
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The State of Child Welfare
How well are Pennsylvania and county governments doing to assure safe, stable and permanent families for all children? This inaugural review of the performance of our child welfare systems provides a data overview to help examine the facts and gauge our efforts to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children.
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PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN SAYS KIDS SPARED DAMAGING CUTS IN STATE BUDGET
Basic Ed Increase and Level-Funding of Pre-K Counts are Highlights
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School Readiness Indicators — 2009
Gains & Losses Equal Mixed Results
 This year’s School Readiness report displays interesting dynamics: growth in both full-day kindergarten and pre-K indicates promising headway in making these proven programs available to children, yet at the same time greater reliance on public programs including child care subsidy and health coverage points to an escalation of families turning to the government for help in these lean economic times.
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PA Partnerships for Children Lauds Final Approval of Keystone Exams
Standards will Help Ensure Students are Prepared for College & Workforce
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- Porch Light Project Fact Sheet (PDF)
- FAQs on Child Welfare Financing Reform (PDF)
Growing Up and Aging Out - NEW
Executive Summary (PDF)
Youth in foster care need safe, stable and permanent families. Children don’t just need their families when they are young. Family plays a critical role throughout childhood but that support continues into adulthood. For most children, their parents teach them right from wrong, help them in school, support them as they learn how to make friends and manage relationships. In most families, when a child turns 18, he or she goes off to college, trade school, work or the military. But amidst holiday breaks and summer vacations, most youth have a home to return to and parents to support and guide them for a lifetime – parents who will be there to cheer them on at their college graduation, co-sign a loan to help them buy a car or a house, walk them down the aisle, and celebrate the birth of grandchildren.
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Promoting Permanence
Executive Summary (PDF)
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC) released a new report Nov. 13 on the challenges and solutions to promoting a safe and permanent home for all children in the foster care system. The report shows a large number of children still in foster care after 17 months despite a legal requirement that they be released for adoption. Approximately 5,500 children (of 20,000 children in care annually) living in foster care in Pennsylvania have been in placement for more than 17 months but have not been freed for adoption. Only a little more than 10 percent of these children will be released for adoption within the next six months.
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Forever Family For Every Child
Executive Summary (PDF)
The Porch Light Project will work to spearhead public policy reforms that ensure all children grow up in families where their needs for safety, permanency and well-being are met and to build the political will - including strong and visible leadership, appropriate financing, and sound public policies - to make this vision of a "forever family for every child" a reality.
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Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children
116 Pine Street, Suite 430
Harrisburg, PA 17101
717-236-5680 / 800-257-2030
Fax: 717-236-7745
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