Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning is Possible There is an entirely preventable health disaster plaguing Pennsylvania that robs thousands of children of their potential and drains communities’ resources with avoidable costs – lead poisoning. This may surprise you...
Delaware County has the fifth highest number of children poisoned by lead of all PA counties, with an average of 250 children harmed each year. Lead was finally banned in residential paint in 1978, yet 81% of Delaware County houses and apartments were built before...
Where is the Light at the End of the Tunnel? Shocking news this week that we’re not taking care of the ones who care for our children, according to the Yale Child Study Center. The child care crisis is even worse than we imagined. On top of being appallingly...
DELCO & MONTCO Kids Not Out of the COVID Woods Yet “I wasn’t dealing with certain [mental health] things correctly,” said Tanveer Kaur, a Senior at Upper Darby High School. “I needed to talk to it out with someone who wasn’t family and was...
Philly Kids & Teens are Reeling from COVID’s Impact “We’re not thriving. We’re just surviving.” This is the heartbreaking reality of 16-year-old Fatoumata Sidibe since COVID upended her normal teenage life. COVID took a tremendous toll on...
All Good Things Shouldn’t Come to an End Hundreds of thousands of PA kids are at risk of losing their health insurance and we won’t be around to help them. Pennsylvania is poised to require everyone on Medicaid to prove their eligibility – all 3 million of them...
