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The State of Child Welfare
Executive Summary (PDF)
The State of Child WelfareHow well are Pennsylvania and county governments doing to assure safe, stable and permanent families for all children? This inaugural review of the performance of our child welfare systems provides a data overview to help examine the facts and gauge our efforts to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children.
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Children of Color and Pennsylvania’s Child Welfare System
Executive Summary (PDF)
Children of Color and Pennsylvania’s Child Welfare SystemAll children deserve the safety and security of being raised in loving and permanent families, free from abuse and neglect. Yet a great disparity exists in Pennsylvania’s foster care system: African American children are six times more likely to be in foster care than white children and Latino children are three times more likely to be in foster care.
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Growing Up and Aging Out
Executive Summary (PDF)
Growing Up and Aging OutYouth in foster care need safe, stable and permanent families. Children don’t just need their families when they are young. Family plays a critical role throughout childhood but that support continues into adulthood. For most children, their parents teach them right from wrong, help them in school, support them as they learn how to make friends and manage relationships. In most families, when a child turns 18, he or she goes off to college, trade school, work or the military. But amidst holiday breaks and summer vacations, most youth have a home to return to and parents to support and guide them for a lifetime – parents who will be there to cheer them on at their college graduation, co-sign a loan to help them buy a car or a house, walk them down the aisle, and celebrate the birth of grandchildren.
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Promoting Permanence
Executive Summary (PDF)
Promoting PermanencePennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC) released a new report Nov. 13 on the challenges and solutions to promoting a safe and permanent home for all children in the foster care system. The report shows a large number of children still in foster care after 17 months despite a legal requirement that they be released for adoption. Approximately 5,500 children (of 20,000 children in care annually) living in foster care in Pennsylvania have been in placement for more than 17 months but have not been freed for adoption. Only a little more than 10 percent of these children will be released for adoption within the next six months.
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Forever Family For Every Child
Executive Summary (PDF)
Forever Family For Every ChildThe Porch Light Project will work to spearhead public policy reforms that ensure all children grow up in families where their needs for safety, permanency and well-being are met and to build the political will - including strong and visible leadership, appropriate financing, and sound public policies - to make this vision of a "forever family for every child" a reality.
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