Policy

Since PEC’s inception, we have acted with and on behalf of homeless families to advocate for urgently needed public policy changes.  Over the last five years, we can point to the following successes:

• Worked with the White House to write a new “leave policy” into welfare law which allows working mothers limited time off without losing benefits
• Organized the Family Service Provider Network, a regional advocacy leadership group that focuses on family homelessness
• Founded Advocacy Coalition for Homeless Families, a multi-state coalition
• Testified before United States Senate and House committees on the reauthorization of the McKinney Vento Act
• Briefed US Senate and House committee staff on Section 8 housing policy
• Testified at numerous Philadelphia City Council hearings
• Managed an extensive public policy communications strategy, including a monthly e-newsletter and regular policy briefs on family homelessness