Report: Enhancing EI Referrals for Children in Child Welfare

Children involved in Pennsylvania’s child welfare system are at significantly higher risk for developmental delays due to abuse, neglect, poverty, and family instability. Early Intervention (EI) services under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act...

Early Intervention is Critical to Child Welfare

PRESS RELEASE LITTLE KIDS WHO NEED THERAPY THE MOST GET IT THE LEAST Only about 1 in 10 infants, toddlers in child welfare system get Early Intervention Young children who live through abuse, neglect, poverty, and instability don’t have the tools to make sense of...

Policy Brief: Improving Infant-Toddler EI Access in Child Welfare

Children involved in Pennsylvania’s child welfare system are at significantly higher risk for developmental delays due to abuse, neglect, poverty, and family instability. Early Intervention (EI) services under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act...

Was it ever about Tylenol?

  The Autism-Tylenol Link is Hard to Swallow The Presidential uproar about Tylenol is all growl and no bite. Think about it. Finally, America’s top dog puts the cause of autism front and center and, instead of solutions, advances baseless claims that offers...

10-YEAR OLDS IN JAIL?

PRESS RELEASE THE PUNISHMENT IS TOO BIG FOR THE CRIME Pennsylvania kids as young as 10 can be arrested…and jailed It’s shocking to learn that, in Pennsylvania, 10-year-olds can be sent to jail. A new policy brief by Children First reveals that in 2024, nearly 2,000...

The Punishment is too Big for the Crime

Pennsylvania’s outdated laws allow children as young as ten years old to be arrested, prosecuted in juvenile court, and even locked up. Children in Pennsylvania as young as 10 years old can be arrested… and jailed.  Pennsylvania’s outdated laws allow children as...