Starting April 17, 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) will be deciding who qualifies for CHIP. This will include both new applications and renewals. This means that the current 130,000 CHIP families and all new enrollees will need to go through...
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A Resource Guide: Care Management Of a Child with Elevated Blood Lead Levels
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that lead-based paint hazards in children’s homes are the main source of lead poisoning – particularly deteriorated paint in the form of dust. The most important treatment for a child with an elevated blood lead...
Toxic Lead: PA Lawmakers Must Act to Protect Children
Lead can seriously harm a child’s health and cause well-documented adverse effects such as damage to the brain and nervous system, slowed growth, development and learning and behavior, hearing and speech problems – which can cause lower IQ, decreased ability to pay...
Using Municipal Codes and Other Strategies to Protect PA Children
CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING IS 100% PREVENTABLE primarily by removing lead paint-based hazards in homes. For every dollar spent on removing lead paint-based hazards in children’s homes and apartments, $17–$221 would be returned in health benefits, increased IQ, higher...
How to Get Your School-Age Children Behavioral Health Services in Philadelphia
PA Charter Performance Center Advisory Board
PA Charter Performance Center Advisory Board: Veronica Brooks-Uy, Interim VP of Policy, National Association of Charter School Authorizers Esther Bush, President and CEO, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Sarah Cohodes, Associate Professor of Economics and Education...
School Nurse and Counselor Resource Manual – Mar 10, 2022
School Nurse and Counselor Manual (2022) More than 37,000 children and teens in the Greater Philadelphia area are uninsured. Yet the majority of them are eligible for free or low-cost health insurance. The good news is that almost almost every child and teen qualifies...
FACT SHEETS: Skyrocketing Cyber Charter Enrollment – Nov 5, 2021
Enrollment in cyber charter schools skyrocketed has during the pandemic, causing Southeastern Pennsylvania school districts to pay over $96 million more in charter school tuition and intensifying pressure on local property taxpayers. See the breakdown on costs and...
PRESENTATION on American Rescue Plan Funds – Sep 29, 2021
The 'Children Can't Wait' - 2021 BELL Summit Sponsored by the People's Emergency Center on September 29, 2021 Donna Cooper, Executive Director of Children First, discussed K-12 education challenges, how American Rescue Plan should be deployed, and what policymakers...
RESOURCE: Access Philly Arts – Jul 15, 2021
ACCESS Cardholders (those Pennsylvania residents who monitor their government-issued cash, food, or medical benefits with an EBT card), are invited to visit participating sites in Philadelphia at the deeply discounted rate of $2 per person. 11th Hour Theatre Company...