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Coverage Gap for Hispanic Children

Pennsylvania’s rate of uninsured Hispanic children is now at 7.4 percent, according to a new report released today by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, the National Council of La Raza, and Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY).  The report...

Comment: PA Plans for Child Care and Development Fund

The Department of Health and Human Services’s final Child Care and Development Fund Plan for Pennsylvania, fiscal year 2016-2018. Read the plan to find out what initiatives are in place for child care services in the upcoming years. SEPECC’s public comment...

Dream Care Presentations

The 2015 presentation describes how the Dream Care initiative would help insure children in Pennsylvania who are undocumented and uninsured.  The second presentation, by Sonya Schwartz, Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, gives a national...

Dream Care: Stories

Children First (then as PCCY) interviewed 53 parents of children like Maria’s, and our investigation found that 85% of parents said they had to delay or forego care for their child due to lack of insurance. Among these families we found: 100% of parents stated that...