PAP4Children
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Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children is dedicated to improving the well-being of PA's 2.6 million kids. We're independent, non-partisan and non-profit.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Joined February 2010
A big thank you to our partners @PreK4PA and @StartStrongPA for helping us put this report together!
📘 NEW: PPC’s State of Early Care and Education report is out! See how PA can better support young learners + the educators who help them grow. 🌟👶 👉 https://t.co/3BLXmlsuU7
#PAKids #EarlyLearning
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📘 NEW: PPC’s State of Early Care and Education report is out! See how PA can better support young learners + the educators who help them grow. 🌟👶 👉 https://t.co/3BLXmlsuU7
#PAKids #EarlyLearning
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📢 Pennsylvania OST providers — we need your voice! Take 10 minutes to share your insights & help shape the future of afterschool + summer programs. Chance to win $100 gift card. 👉 https://t.co/04XLyj7FIg
#OutOfSchoolTime #PAEducation
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🎃🕸️ Happy Halloween from PPC! No tricks here — just treats, smiles, and a reminder to keep PA’s kids healthy and happy! 🍬💙 Stay connected (it’s spook-tacularly easy!) 👉 https://t.co/JTS7ZVTTri
#HappyHalloween
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🏡 Strong families build strong futures. PPC supports evidence-based home visiting programs that help parents and babies get a strong start in life. 💙 Learn more 👉 https://t.co/syOHAXJ1Ra
#HomeVisitingWorks
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📊 Fast Fact: PA needs 8,477 more educators to serve all eligible pre-k children. Every child deserves access to quality early learning. 💙 Learn more: https://t.co/xHcjeGaqzC
#PAKids #EarlyEdMatters #KidsFirst
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🧸 Every child deserves access to quality early learning. PPC advocates for strong investments in early care & education so PA kids start school ready to learn and grow. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/xHcjeGaqzC
#PAKids #EarlyEdMatters #KidsFirst
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📊 Child Welfare Fast Fact: 2 in 5 children and youth in Pennsylvania’s foster care system are placed with kin, relatives or close family friends who step up when kids need them most. 💙 Learn more: https://t.co/ud2wUcnw1t
#PAKids #ChildWelfare #KinshipCare #KidsFirst
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💙 At PPC, our child welfare work focuses on strengthening families, improving outcomes for kids in care, and ensuring every child has the opportunity to succeed. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/ud2wUcnw1t
#PAKids #ChildWelfare #KidsFirst
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With a vision to ensure that every child living in Pennsylvania can thrive and reach their full potential, PPC focuses on five core policy areas: child welfare, early childhood education, home visiting, K-12 education, and maternal and child health.
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💙 Today is National Child Health Day! Every child in Pennsylvania deserves access to quality health care, nutritious food, and safe communities to grow and learn. Let’s keep working together to put kids’ health first—today and every day. #PAKids #ChildHealthDay
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📉 Routine vaccination rates among PA kindergarteners are declining — putting kids & communities at risk. PPC’s Becky Ludwick spoke with @905wesa on why protecting immunization access matters for children’s health & school readiness. 🔗 Read more:
wesa.fm
According to the state, 93.7% of Pennsylvania kindergarteners got both recommended doses of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine before the 2024-2025 school year. That’s lower than the recomme...
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"According to Becky Ludwick, the vice president of public policy with the Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, during the last shutdown, #WIC programs were disrupted." via @CBSPhiladelphia and @LizCrawfordNews
Federal assistance programs such as SNAP and WIC could be disrupted if the government shuts down for more a few weeks, experts say. Here's what to know as a shutdown looms.
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When kids cannot live with their parents, they thrive with kin. Kinship families = stability, safety, identity, and belonging. The research backs it. 💜 #KinshipMonth2025
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Children in kinship foster care experience better outcomes than placement in non-relative care. Happy #KinshipMonth2025!
It’s National Kinship Month, PA! Kinship caregivers are grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, adult siblings, and even family friends who make the selfless choice to take on parenting responsibilities when biological parents can't. #KinshipCareMonth
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Kinship families have powerful strengths. 💜 Their deep bonds help children feel safe, stable, & seen. With the right support, they foster better mental health, stronger identity, & more lasting belonging than non-kin foster families. #KinshipMonth2025
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"In the most recent school year available, we saw that there were almost 8,000 kindergartners who weren't up-to-date on their MMR vaccine," Becky Ludwick, VP of public policy for Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, reported. "That has doubled since the 2017-2018 school year."
Report: #MMR #vaccine rates drop among #Pennsylvania kindergarteners. Comments from: Becky Ludwick, Vice President of Public Policy, @PAP4Children
https://t.co/4gMDIULFpE
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Report: #MMR #vaccine rates drop among #Pennsylvania kindergarteners. Comments from: Becky Ludwick, Vice President of Public Policy, @PAP4Children
https://t.co/4gMDIULFpE
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A new analysis found Pennsylvania’s childhood vaccination rates are slipping.For the second year in a row, kindergarten immunizations fell below the 95% target set by the U.S. Department of Health
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🍁🍎 Happy First Day of Fall from all of us at Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children! Stay connected with the latest news and resources for PA kids — sign up for our enewsletter today: https://t.co/JTS7ZVTTri
#PAKids #FallVibes #ChildAdvocacy
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The number of unvaccinated children whose families claimed religious or philosophical objections has more than doubled since the 2020-21 school year, according to data compiled by @PAP4Children via @Capitolwire
More unvaccinated students are enrolling in school and advocates worry that could fuel disease outbreaks that endanger others in the community. #pagov #papoli #papolitics
https://t.co/gsNMp99Qio
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