Sep 24, 2025
High school Career and Technical Education programs are a critical pathway for states to prepare for and meet current and future workforce needs. Pennsylvania’s career and technical educator licensure requirements for the Instructor II certificate are out of step with...
Feb 12, 2025
Children First is releasing five reports on the children in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, titled, “A Decade of Stalled Progress.” Click the images below to download a copy of the report. Bucks County Chester County Delaware...
Feb 7, 2025
More than 17,000 Pennsylvania children were charged in juvenile court in 2023, and 2/3 of the charges were for misdemeanors or summary offenses, like loitering and disorderly conduct. For those children and their communities, diversion is a better alternative than...
Aug 12, 2024
Career-related learning that better connects graduates to future employment and higher education is growing in respect and demand in Pennsylvania. Economists predict the majority of future job growth in the Commonwealth will be in fields that do not require an...
Jul 27, 2024
In the fall of 2021, the Racial Equity Subcommittee, a subcommittee within the newly formed Early Childhood Provider Council, was created with the task of researching inequities within Pennsylvania’s early childhood system. As a result of this mission, the Racial...
Apr 2, 2024
In March 2024, Children First published a policy brief entitled “Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in Pennsylvania.” In that brief, five specific reforms to optimize Medicaid as a sustainable funding source to improve child and adolescent...
