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Some Cuts Never Heal–2017 Federal Budget
PCCY Responds to President Trump's Budget Some Cuts Never Heal The President’s Budget Proposals Threaten the Well-Being of Pennsylvania’s Children and Our Nation’s Long Term Security Nearly 400,000 Children in Southeastern Pennsylvania Put at Risk On Tuesday, the...
WOAH! Before you flip the status quo–May 19, 2017
WOAH! Before you flip the status quo... It may not be a good chant, but it’s the right chant: What do we want? Change. When do we want it? When it helps. Voters wanted change last November, but not the President's definition of change. Once they learned the facts,...
Know who’s leading this Revolution?–May 12, 2017
Know who's leading this Revolution? If you’ve been procrastinating, time is almost up to join the revolution. Every year, PCCY’s annual celebration proves to be the social event for the sector with a veritable Who’s Who of educators, child advocates, lawmakers and...
How we insure healthy kids–May 5, 2017
How we insure healthy kids The House of Representatives may have passed their Trumpcare bill on Thursday but thankfully every congressman representing southeast PA stood up for children and families and voted no – in part because they heard from folks like you, their...
“I Think Arts Education Saved My Life”–April 28, 2017
"I think it saved my life." Before he created Broadway’s smash hit Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda was just a public school kid who was lucky enough to be at a school with funding for arts education. “And I think it saved my life,” Miranda said in a recent...
To City Council–Call for Hearings on Residential Programs–April 25, 2017
[NOTE: The following letter was distributed to all members of Philadelphia City Council on April 25, 2017.] [DOWNLOAD PDF] Dear Members of Council: We at Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) call upon the members of Philadelphia City Council to hold hearings...
Here’s a great reason to smile…–April 21, 2017
Here's a great reason to smile... We want to take a moment to let you know about a great kid with a great new smile. We got a call from a teacher of a young child in middle school who was being teased by other students because he had many visibly decayed top front...
Your Backstage Pass To The Revolution–April 14, 2017
Your backstage pass to the Revolution! With a whopping 30,000 tickets already sold for the spanking new Museum of the American Revolution, you’ll have to wait a while to make a visit UNLESS you join PCCY at the Museum for our Celebration of the 2017 Public...
We Must Have Missed the Memo–April 7, 2017
We Must Have Missed the Memo Some state representatives, siding with the research and the will of the people they represent, have boarded the quality pre-k train only to threaten to derail it in this, the first week of PA’s budget process. This week, the PA...