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Success in Putting an End to Lead Poisoning! – Oct 28, 2022
Hometown Leadership on Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention "When I found out, I cried – a lot. I felt completely responsible." Delco mom Andrea White felt such despair when she learned her two young children were poisoned by lead paint, and she is speaking out to...
What Else Can High School Students Bear? – Oct 21, 2022
New PA Graduation Requirements will be a Hurdle for Students As if high school students haven’t had enough to deal with, new graduation requirements go into effect this year. A startlingly low 35% of students would graduate under the changes, according to the...
Health crisis wrapped in a child care crisis – Oct 14, 2022
Health crisis wrapped in a child care crisis – Oct 14, 2022
Where is the Light at the End of the Tunnel? Shocking news this week that we’re not taking care of the ones who care for our children, according to the Yale Child Study Center. The child care crisis is even worse than we imagined. On top of being appallingly...
Are Your Candidates on the Record? – Oct 7, 2022
Getting Candidates on the Record Remember when Clint Eastwood berated an empty chair in the 2012 GOP National Convention? Well, we’re starting to understand his frustration because we’ve had 21 empty chairs at the Child Care Voters Candidate Conversations...
The Big Thing = BIG CHANGE FOR KIDS – Sep 30, 2022
The Big Thing: A Summit to Change Young Lives Imagine being a kid today. They’re facing challenges that even some grown-ups can’t handle: violence, addiction, cyber bullying, school closures, fall-out from the pandemic, college debt, political division, racial...
Have We Recovered from the Pandemic? – Sep 23, 2022
DELCO & MONTCO Kids Not Out of the COVID Woods Yet "I wasn’t dealing with certain [mental health] things correctly," said Tanveer Kaur, a Senior at Upper Darby High School. "I needed to talk to it out with someone who wasn’t family and was a trusted adult...
Have We Recovered from the Pandemic? – Sep 23, 2022
Progress to End Lead Poisoning (SB 552) – Sep 21, 2022
The Childhood Blood Lead Test Act received unanimous approval from the PA House Children & Youth Committee today! This critical legislation that will get lead-poisoned children early help is now one step closer to becoming law of the land, thanks to our...