Too Many PA Youth and Young Adults Exit Foster Care Without Permanent Families and Unprepared to Thrive on Their Own

Less than half of the older youth population exited to permanency in 2021   HARRISBURG, PA—Family relationships that endure throughout an individual’s lifetime have been out of reach for too many of Pennsylvania’s young people who have experienced foster care, according to Fostering Youth Transitions 2023: State and National Data to Drive Foster Care Advocacy, released […]

Editorial: Embracing and supporting career and tech education is critical

There needs to be an acknowledgment that education can come in many different forms. It needs to not just be an option on the table, like an elective buried in a course catalog. It needs to be something believed and supported by educators and politicians at every level. It needs to be advocated wholeheartedly to […]

Construction, Work Zone Safety, and Child Health Care

This week’s Pennsylvania Newsmakers features Bob Latham, Executive Vice President of Associated Pennsylvania Constructors, who discusses the conditions of roads and bridges in the state, as well as work zone safety. Then, Kari King, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Partnership for Children, joins host Terry Madonna for an update on raising children today’s society, the impact of Medicaid […]

With major Medicaid changes ahead, advocates want to see increased staffing for assistance offices

A group of health advocacy organizations are asking the state to improve staffing at county assistance offices, as well as to make other administrative changes the advocates say will lessen the likelihood of people losing their health coverage once the state starts “unwinding” its pandemic-era Medical Assistance. During the pandemic, individuals who got their health […]

State of the Child

 

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