An advocacy campaign started by evidence-based home visit support providers met with legislators Friday morning to discuss the importance of at-home visiting services of the youngest children.

In 2007, lawmakers significantly expanded Pennsylvania’s Children’s Health Insurance Program statute to reduce the number of uninsured children across the state.

The number of children across the state killed from abuse dropped from 46 in 2016 to 40 in 2017. But both the number of reports of suspected child abuse and the number of cases of abuse substantiated by caseworkers continued to climb.

There were statistics, of course: 10,355 children in poverty in Luzerne County, only 475 of them getting help through four home-visiting agencies. But there was also Alyssa Hudock, a 21-year-old Pittston resident with three children. Thanks to the help she got through one of those agencies, she graduated from college, got a job and is looking […]

With the state budget process kicking into gear and millions of dollars in funding at stake, child advocates touted the merits of the Childhood Begins at Home campaign at Luzerne County Head Start on Thursday.