By Subject: Child Welfare | Early Childhood Education | Home Visiting | K-12 Education | Maternal and Child Health | Prenatal-to-Age-Three

Dashboard: Prenatal-to-Age-Three – May 2022


This data dashboard tracks the Pennsylvania prenatal-to-age-three collaborative’s progress toward increasing the number of low-income infants and toddlers and their families receiving high-quality services by 25% (approximately 44,000) by 2023 and by 50% (approximately 89,000) by 2025. We focus on child care policy, home-visiting, children’s health insurance, lead screening and abatement, child nutrition (WIC), and perinatal […]

Policy Brief: A Time to Thrive: Growing Pennsylvania WIC’s Impact on Children and Families — May 2021


WIC is a cost-effective program with proven benefits, however, declining participation has had a substantial impact on Pennsylvania, threatening the program’s ability to ensure children and families thrive. While the pandemic has hastened progress on issues that existed prior to COVID-19 and has propelled the program forward on long-delayed innovations, these advances must be coupled […]

Flyer: Signing Up for Health Insurance for Your Baby or Toddler – March 2021


For children to have the healthiest start possible, they need to be insured as early as possible. By age 3, children should have 12 well-child visits, according to the schedule set by the American Academy of Pediatrics. These regular, preventive visits to the doctor or pediatrician are important to track a child’s growth and development, […]

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