Reports and Fact Sheets

By Subject: Child Welfare | Early Care and Education | Home Visiting | K-12 Education | Perinatal and Child Health | Prenatal-to-Age-Three | KIDSCOUNT State of the Child

Child Welfare Reports and Fact Sheets

Cover Image: Report: 2023 State of Child Welfare – December 2023

Report: 2023 State of Child Welfare – December 2023


Our 14th annual State of Child Welfare report provides a 5-year analysis of how Pennsylvania fares with practices around child safety, placement, and permanency and includes county-level data and statewide and geographic trends to improve the child welfare system. We continue to analyze racial disparity and disproportionality across the child welfare system’s population (age 0-20).

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Improving Kinship Placement in Pennsylvania – September 2023

Fact Sheet: Improving Kinship Placement in Pennsylvania – September 2023


Kinship care is the full-time care, nurturing, and protection of a child by a relative, either by blood or marriage, and can include informal connections that are not legally related but have a positive, supportive relationship with the child or family.

Cover Image: Report: 2022 State of Child Welfare – September 2022

Report: 2022 State of Child Welfare – September 2022


Our 13th annual State of Child Welfare report provides a 5-year analysis of how Pennsylvania fares with practices around child safety, placement, and permanency and includes county-level data and statewide and geographic trends to improve the child welfare system. We continue to analyze racial disparity and disproportionality across the child welfare system’s population (age 0-20).

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Promoting Permanency and Successful Adult Outcomes for Transition Age Youth – March 2022

Fact Sheet: Promoting Permanency and Successful Adult Outcomes for Transition Age Youth – March 2022


Transition age youth—age 14 to 21—are older youth in the foster care system transitioning to permanency with a caregiver or aging out of the system to adulthood. Transition age youth often struggle with this life transition due to unique circumstances with being a foster child.

Early Care and Education Reports and Fact Sheets

Cover Image: Report: State of Early Care and Education in Pennsylvania – August 2023

Report: State of Early Care and Education in Pennsylvania – August 2023


Pennsylvania’s comprehensive early care and education system spans a child’s formative years, from birth-to-age-5. This report looks deeper at Pennsylvania’s child care and pre-k system complexities and recommends the improvements necessary to ensure the system functions equitably and increases access and affordability for all families in the commonwealth.

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Supporting Infant and Toddler Early Intervention in Pennsylvania – May 2023

Fact Sheet: Supporting Infant and Toddler Early Intervention in Pennsylvania – May 2023


Infant and Toddler EI services are structured to identify and meet the needs of young children in five developmental areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication development(language); social or emotional development; and adaptive skills. Infant and Toddler EI depends on state funding support to ensure that every child needing services is referred to and receiving them.

Cover Image: Report: Pennsylvania Must Strengthen Its Professional Development Registry to Support Early Childhood Educators – Start Strong PA – January 2023

Report: Pennsylvania Must Strengthen Its Professional Development Registry to Support Early Childhood Educators – Start Strong PA – January 2023


Start Strong PA is a statewide campaign of partners advocating for increased access to high-quality, affordable child care, beginning with infants and toddlers. The campaign is concerned with the current workforce crisis facing child care providers and families looking for high-quality care.

Home Visiting

Cover Image: Home Visiting State and County Fact Sheets 2023

Home Visiting State and County Fact Sheets 2023


The Childhood Begins at Home campaign released new fact sheets that show the number of young children and their families receiving publicly funded, evidence-based home visiting services statewide and in each county. While a historic level of increased funding in last year’s state budget helped serve more Pennsylvania low-income families—moving from 5% to 7% served—it still represents only a fraction of those most in need of services.

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Congress Must Act Now to Reauthorize the MIECHV Program – July 2022

Fact Sheet: Congress Must Act Now to Reauthorize the MIECHV Program – July 2022


The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program strengthens communities by improving outcomes for children and their families. A cornerstone of evidence-based public policy, MIECHV provides funds for developing and implementing voluntary, evidence-based home visiting programs. Programs must meet at least four of six evidence-based benchmarks to satisfy the law’s rigorous requirements for demonstrated effectiveness. MIECHV is an essential source of funding; however, it is set to expire on September 30th. Congress must act to reauthorize MIECHV before this deadline to ensure families across Pennsylvania can continue to receive vital home visiting services. 

K-12 Education Reports and Fact Sheets

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Universal Free Breakfast Helps School-Aged Children Succeed – June 2023

Fact Sheet: Universal Free Breakfast Helps School-Aged Children Succeed – June 2023


Each day, families struggle with food security and the ability to provide their children with healthy meals that fuel their minds and bodies. Lack of nutrient-rich food impacts child development, overall health outcomes, mental and behavioral health and academic achievement, performance, and participation. Free school breakfast has been one initiative provided to Pennsylvania school-aged children to combat child hunger and ensure students succeed.

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Investing in CTE Today Ensures a Competitive Workforce Tomorrow – May 2023

Fact Sheet: Investing in CTE Today Ensures a Competitive Workforce Tomorrow – May 2023


Career and technical education (CTE) combines academic, technical and hands-on skill-building that prepares students to immediately enter high-priority occupations or better define career plans, including post-secondary education. Each year thousands of Pennsylvania students will have already earned higher education credits, completed a pre-apprenticeship program or gained on-the-job skills before graduation because of the CTE path they chose in high school. Unfortunately, not all students get to participate in CTE due to the lack of sustained state investments in funding to support programming.

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: What Do Funding Streams Look Like for Career and Technical Education Centers? – February 2023

Fact Sheet: What Do Funding Streams Look Like for Career and Technical Education Centers? – February 2023


Career and technical education (CTE) provides a unique combination of academic, technical, and hands-on skill-building that prepares students to either immediately enter the workforce or better define career plans to enter post-secondary education. Funding for CTE is complex, with several streams from federal, state and local funding. Funding sources vary.

Perinatal and Child Health Reports and Fact Sheets

Cover Image: Fact Sheets: Medicaid & CHIP Provide Quality Health Insurance for Half of Pennsylvania Kids – February 2024

Fact Sheets: Medicaid & CHIP Provide Quality Health Insurance for Half of Pennsylvania Kids – February 2024

Over the past year, much has happened in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that has changed how families apply for or renew public health insurance for their children. The three fact sheets in this series show enrollment by Congressional, state House, and state Senate districts.

Cover Image: Report: State of Children’s Health in Pennsylvania – November 2023

Report: State of Children’s Health in Pennsylvania – November 2023


The 2022 State of Children’s Health Report shows the factors that contribute to a child’s likelihood of being uninsured include family income, race and ethnicity, geography, and age. It uses the most recent Census data and examines the role of public health insurance programs as comprehensive coverage options and how Medicaid continues to provide a safety net of coverage during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Cover Image: Fact Sheet: Important Changes to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – April 2023

Fact Sheet: Important Changes to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – April 2023


Beginning April 17th, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services will determine eligibility for CHIP families and new enrollees, not CHIP insurance plans. This change means County Assistance Offices will process all renewals and new applications.

Prenatal-to-Age-Three Reports and Fact Sheets

Cover Image: Fact Sheets: Prenatal and Children’s Nutrition (Women, Infants and Children Program – WIC) – May 2023

Fact Sheets: Prenatal and Children’s Nutrition (Women, Infants and Children Program – WIC) – May 2023


Children need access to nutrition for their growing bodies and minds to be healthy and develop as they should. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a critical component in ensuring infants and toddlers, as well as pregnant and postpartum mothers, have access to healthy nutrition. See WIC coverage rates statewide and at the county level.

KIDSCOUNT State of the Child

Cover Image: State of the Child 2023

State of the Child 2023


Our revamped State of the Child profiles offer a variety of data points about children and families and their well-being in Pennsylvania and all 67 counties, including Population Diversity, Children Living in Poverty, and a variety of Socioeconomic Data. Click on page to see county statistics.