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When We Fight, We Win

  One Week, Three Big Wins for PA Kids FROM THE DESK OF MAI MIKSIC, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I’ve been doing policy and advocacy long enough to know that wins don’t come easy; it’s a long game. Wins come from years of showing up at hearings, in district...

Hot off the presses!

  All the Children First News That’s Fit to Print Have you heard the latest from Children First?  Our Spring 2026 edition of Childwatch is filled with updates on the progress Children First is making for kids. Here are some highlights: Paid Family Leave...

Someone’s Doing It Right

  Support Can’t Wait Until Crisis What if we stopped waiting for children to reach a breaking point before helping them? Across PA, families and schools are seeing the signs of children and teens struggling with their mental wellness, but too often, support...

Report: A Blueprint for Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s birth rate is dropping. Polling consistently shows young people are deciding not to grow their families because they financially cannot afford to have kids. Recent estimates show it takes about $32,000/year to raise a child in Pennsylvania. This is...

Are You Feeling Better?

  Dangerous Snowball Effect of Bad Health Policy If national leaders really want to Make America Healthy Again, pushing kids off health insurance is not the way to go. In Pennsylvania today, more than 153,000 children do not have health insurance, the highest in...

RFK’s Dangerous Vaccine Crusade Risks Children’s Lives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Our Message to Secretary Kennedy: America is not Denmark. The new vaccine regimen announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) is risky, irresponsible, and reckless. With no evidence to suggest otherwise, respected U.S. scientific experts tell us...