IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE - AND IT NEVER SHOULD Every child should be safe from harm, but there is a special obligation to kids who are in the child welfare system because they were abused or neglected. It’s hard to forget the case, more than a decade ago, when a...
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Don’t Stop Head Start – Apr 18, 2025
THROWING BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER Of all of the cost-cutting measures floated or implemented by the new administration, early learning for kids living in poverty wasn’t on the Bingo card for most of us. But the Heritage Foundation has long had its sights...
Your Taxes Should Pay Off for Kids – Apr 11, 2025
EVERY CHILD LEFT BEHIND Did you file your tax return yet for 2024? Eight out of ten of us will have done so by the time you read this email. But what are you getting for taxes Washington is collecting? When the tax year started on January 2024, parents of...
Stop the devastation of special education – Apr 4, 2025
LOCAL TEACHER'S POWERFUL PLEA TO SAVE THE DEPT OF ED Dismantling the Department of Education has real consequences for students with disabilities. But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to Nicole Wyglendowski, a K-2 special education teacher, who shared...
Giving baby monitors a new meaning – Mar 28, 2025
A LITTLE RED LIGHT Nora Bongiovanni was born nine weeks early and spent the first 14 weeks of her life in the NICU. Nora's family live in Chester County, but her mom, Grace, chose to work for a New Jersey company because Jersey provides paid family medical...
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Mar 21, 2025
BUILDING SAFER COMMUNITIES & BRIGHTER FUTURES Do children as young as ten years old end up shackled and in prison? In PA, yes, they do. Imagine seeing a 10-year-old lying on a bare floor in shackles. State Rep. Rick Krajewski from Philadelphia did. At a...
Can private equity turn a profit on kids? – Mar 14, 2025
A Half-Billion Dollar Swindle in Delco Harms Children After the private equity owners of the Crozer Medical system in Delaware County extracted more than $500,000,000 from the system over the past nine years, it declared bankruptcy and the whole hospital...
Celebration of the 2025 Champion for Children: Governor Josh Shapiro
On Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Children First will be honoring Governor Josh Shapiro at our annual Celebration of the Champion for Children, and we are also proud to be celebrating our 45th Anniversary! We are choosing to honor Governor Shapiro on this special...
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse – Mar 7, 2025
TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE BEING WASTED While Elon Musk is dancing with chain saws in his zealous approach to ferreting out government "waste, fraud, and abuse," PA has its own wasteful spending that is chopping away at our children's success. The state Auditor...
More than a Tune Up – Feb 28, 2025
STALLED PROGRESS FOR KIDS IN SOUTHEASTERN PA When your car stalls over and over again, you take it to the mechanic, find out what’s wrong, get it fixed, and pay the bill so you’re back on the road. Like an expert mechanic, Children First ran the diagnostics...