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School Play: Get Involved & Present School Play Yourself

Present School Play yourself! Following the Philadelphia Premiere on April 9, School Play will be available to anyone and everyone to present around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our goal is to have performances in each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties before June’s...

School Play: Creative Team

Arden Kass (writer) is an award-wining playwright, independent producer of her own interdisciplinary theatre pieces and two-time PA Council on the Arts Fellow. She also writes musicals, TV, video and film scripts, has published essays and features, written 3 Biography...

School Play: Performance Details

School Play: A live theatre collaboration between playwrights Arden Kass, Seth Bauer and Director Edward Sobel for Public Citizens for Children & Youth. If you would like more information about presenting School Play in your own community, please fill out this...

Pledge for Philadelphia’s Children 2015

The Pledge for Philadelphia’s Children commits our next mayor to championing school funding, achieving universal high-quality Pre-K access, establishing a higher minimum wage, expanding participation in childhood hunger prevention programs, upgrading City...

MA and CHIP Vision Benefits Flyer – 2015

This flyer is a useful tool to answer your questions about vision benefits under Medical Assistance and CHIP. Don’t have insurance?  Do you have questions about your insurance?  We can help.  Call PCCY at 215-563-5848 x17 or email helpline@childrenfirstpa.com....

10K for PreK Petition

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION Help us generate 10,000 signatures asking CIty Council to let the voters decide to move forward to establish universal Pre-K for all 3- and 4-year olds in Philadelphia.  Please forward this link: childrenfirstpa.org/10kforprek to your...