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This fact sheet explores the importance of kinship care in Pennsylvania’s child welfare system and the benefits of placing children with relatives or trusted adults when they cannot safely remain at home. It highlights how kinship placements provide stability, preserve family connections, and improve outcomes for children while identifying opportunities to remove barriers and better […]
Supporting Success for Pennsylvania’s Students in Foster Care: Data, Outcomes, and Stories from the Field analyzes, for the first time, data on educational outcomes for children and youth in out-of-home care. Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC) and the Education Law Center-PA (ELC) identify policy recommendations to improve educational outcomes for these students based on data and research, coupled with insights drawn from case examples and consultations with education liaisons directly involved in the system.
Older youth in foster care, aged 14-21, are embarking on a journey to adulthood, transitioning out of the foster care system and onto self-sufficiency. Despite the numerous challenges they face, including trauma and adverse experiences from their childhood and adolescence, often exacerbated by child welfare system involvement, these youth demonstrate remarkable resilience. Their transition from adolescence to adulthood is a pivotal period, and the support and resources they receive significantly influence their success post-foster care.
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).
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.
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🥕📚 Kids can't learn on an empty stomach.
SNAP helps eligible PA families afford nutritious food, supporting children's health, ability to focus, and success in school.
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💉 This National Immunization Awareness Month, we're highlighting an important development for PA kids: Pennsylvania plans to retain its current childhood vaccine schedule despite recent federal changes.
Routine immunizations are an important part of preventive care and help
🛒 When food costs compete with rent, utilities, child care & other expenses, SNAP can help eligible PA families put food on the table.
For children, that support can mean more consistent access to nutritious meals.
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💙 When parents lose Medicaid coverage, children can be at greater risk of losing coverage too, even when they're still eligible.
As PPC's Becky Ludwick told @KateGiammarise of @905wesa, new Medicaid changes could create barriers for families and put children's coverage at risk.