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.
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).
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Early learning investments pay off.
PPC’s latest brief shows why Pennsylvania’s Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program is more important than ever for children, families, and communities.
https://www.papartnerships.org/report/brief-pennsylvanias-head-start-supplemental-assistance-program-is-more-important-than-ever/
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