The Gift of Strong Minds, Bright Futures While we're in the gift-giving season, Children First wants to give a special present to every child – good mental health. That may sound like a cliché until you learn that current state rules block families from mental...
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Who’s on the Nice List?
Everyone wants to know... Because of you, Children First made many plays this past fiscal year that landed victories for children and teens. Read all about it in our Annual Report, Advocates: The Fuel for Champions. "We owe our patients a consistent message...
A Gift so Big…It Can’t be Wrapped
Giving a Gift that Keeps on Giving As the Christmas song goes, "I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need." For lots of us, that means love, family, health, or maybe a little gift or two. For the 17,000+ kids in the juvenile justice...
Who is Really Out of Office?
Thanksgiving is Not the Only Time We're Out of Office Dawn Huckelbridge, founding director of Paid Leave for All, reminds us that being out of the office is not simple for families. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves so we've printed an excerpt of her...
Don’t You Want to Be “In the Know?”
ChildWatch: Hot Off the Presses Once in a while it makes sense to put all the news in one place. This week, we did it for you in our biannual ChildWatch newsletter. Supporting Young Learners The top story is new research into kids being expelled or "pushed...
Budget Wins For Kids
With Disappointment at the Federal Level, Pennsylvania's State Budget is a WIN for Kids. Ask most Pennsylvanians how they would grade the performance of their state and federal representatives and senators and they’d generously give them an F. In our...
The Votes are In
Families Spoke Up for Themselves on Tuesday While Democrats and Republicans are in their post-election huddles, debating what the election results mean to future campaign strategies, Children First has some words of wisdom: Families don’t want to be under...
This Will Scare You
Sticks and Stones and Names Will Hurt You Troublemaker. Disruptive. Difficult. These labels can follow a child around their whole life with devastating consequences. At a Philadelphia City Council hearing organized by Children First, teenagers shared their...
Keep the Fizz for Philly Kids
Arguments Against Soda Tax are All Flat In response to a 2015 landslide voter referendum in support of a tax on sweetened beverages, the Mayor and City Council passed the levy that pays for more than 5,000 children to attend pre-k, completed upgrades to 48 city...
Getting the rug pulled out from under them
Schools Forced to Make Due with Less Sometimes local reporting gets to the heart of an issue. Evan Brandt, the intrepid Pottstown Mercury journalist, wrote a compelling article on education funding that gets right to the point. Here is an excerpt of his full...