Oct 7, 2025
PRESS RELEASE LITTLE KIDS WHO NEED THERAPY THE MOST GET IT THE LEAST Only about 1 in 10 infants, toddlers in child welfare system get Early Intervention Young children who live through abuse, neglect, poverty, and instability don’t have the tools to make sense of...
Sep 26, 2025
PRESS RELEASE THE PUNISHMENT IS TOO BIG FOR THE CRIME Pennsylvania kids as young as 10 can be arrested…and jailed It’s shocking to learn that, in Pennsylvania, 10-year-olds can be sent to jail. A new policy brief by Children First reveals that in 2024, nearly 2,000...
Sep 24, 2025
PRESS RELEASE PA FACES A SHORTAGE OF NEARLY 700 CAREER-TECH TEACHERS New Children First Report Offers Solutions So More Children Can Benefit from Skills Training Pennsylvania has a smaller share of students in valuable career and technical education (CTE) than other...
Apr 11, 2025
Philadelphia’s Child Welfare System Is Failing Children — It Must Be Reformed Now (April 11, 2025) Children First is heartbroken for the children and families failed by Philadelphia’s child welfare system, as revealed in this week’s Philadelphia Inquirer series on the...
Feb 7, 2023
STATEMENT BY CHILDREN FIRST Papering Over Past Abuses, Clock Tower Should Not Be Permitted to Operate February 7, 2023 Children First strongly opposes the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services’ (DHS) recent action to approve a license allowing Clock Tower Schools...
Feb 2, 2022
Alarming Trends Show More Children At Risk Child Abuse is Taking More Lives of Children in Philadelphia February 2, 2022 The stated purpose of Pennsylvania’s Child Welfare system is to “protect children from abuse, neglect, and enable children to remain safely in...
