REPORT: Smart Money: Covering PA’s Kids Will Save Millions – April 2024
Policymakers, who are charged with being responsive to the expectations of taxpayers and ensuring public funds are both reducing waste and making a difference,…
REPORT: State Examples for Optimizing Medicaid – March 2024
In March 2024, Children First published a policy brief entitled “Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in Pennsylvania.” In that brief,…
REPORT: Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in PA – March 2024
Children are enduring unprecedented rates of anxiety and depression. In Pennsylvania, 50% of children who died by suicide in 2021 never had a prior…
ACTION PLAN: Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning in Delaware County by 2027
Delaware County has the fifth highest number of children poisoned by lead of all PA counties, with an average of 250 children harmed each…
REPORT: Informed and Empowered: Girls With Options – Sep 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Amy Kobeta, Children First amyk@childrenfirstpa.org WHAT WE LEARNED IN SEX ED: GIRLS NEED OPTIONS Black and Hispanic girls want culturally…
REPORT: Underwater: What’s Sinking Families in Bucks County – Apr 2019
The American Dream is eroding in Bucks County. Incomes that used to provide a comfortable middle class life are no longer enough to even…
REPORT: Underwater: What’s Sinking Families in Delaware County – Mar 2019
The American Dream is eroding in Delaware County. Incomes that used to provide a comfortable middle class life are no longer enough to even…
REPORT: Improving PA’s Lead Poisoning Surveillance Data Sharing – Feb 2019
To ensure appropriate resources are directed to reduce the incidence of childhood lead exposure and poisoning, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania annually publishes a Childhood…
REPORT: Making Philadelphia’s Lead Disclosure Law Universal Will Improve the Health of the City’s Babies – Dec 2018
All Philadelphia babies should have an equal opportunity to grow and develop into healthy children and productive adults no matter where they live in…
REPORT: Making PHL’s Lead Disclosure Law Universal Will Protect Babies – Dec 2018
Childhood lead poisoning disrupts the chance at a healthy and happy life for too many young children in Philadelphia – particularly minority children. Although…