A new report highlights the advantages of kinship care for children in contact with Pennsylvania’s child-welfare system, and the need for increased equity in child placements.
Press Release: PPC Releases First Report Focused on the Role of Kin in the Child Welfare System
Kin play a critical role in Pennsylvania’s child welfare system. Today, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC), the only statewide advocacy organization with a public policy agenda that spans the life of a child prenatally through adulthood, today released its first kinship report, Kinship Care in Pennsylvania: Creating an Equitable System for Families. Several children’s advocacy […]
Help available to youths aging out of foster care amid pandemic
After aging out of foster care when he was 18, Jonathon Thomas was homeless for about a half-year, couch-surfing at his friends’ homes.
Wolf launches a budget fraught with deficits, uncertainty
Gov. Tom Wolf asked lawmakers Wednesday to raise income taxes on higher earners and give public schools a massive boost in aid, as state government faces a gaping deficit and uncertainty over how much more pandemic relief the federal government will send.
Pa. budget: Gov. Tom Wolf calls for historic funding increase for public schools
Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget proposal was widely applauded by school district advocates as a long-awaited change that will address the funding inequities that have plagued poorer and predominantly Black school districts for decades while ensuring no district receives less than they received this year.
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