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New Report and a Forum connecting Head Start and Homeless Services

1/26/2022

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The Head Start –​ Continuums of Care (CoC) report
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JANUARY 26, 2022
Collaborating with the Pennsylvania Head Start State Collaboration Office and its consultant, Dr. Grace Whitney, PEC is sharing a report showing the connection between Head Start/Early Head Start programs throughout the state and the homeless housing system, known as the ‘Continuums of Care (CoC)’ program.

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Take Action Now: Children Cannot Wait

1/26/2022

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Join the Children Cannot Wait Campaign
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JANUARY 26, 2022
Pennsylvania is at a crossroads with the advent of new policy makers. New leadership at state and federal levels will affect how young children experience homelessness. Will you join our campaign to convince the candidates to support vulnerable young children? ​

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Children Cannot Wait Campaign Update

1/12/2022

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105 Leaders Sign Messages to the PA Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate Candidates
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JANUARY 13, 2022
We launched the Children Cannot Wait campaign last month and 105 leaders from throughout Pennsylvania have signed onto the letter, urging the candidates for Pennsylvania’s next Governor and U.S. Senator to support young children who experience homelessness.  

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A Focus on Homeless Children and Youth

1/12/2022

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Philadelphia identifies  7,881  children and youth who experienced  homelessness in FY ’20
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JANUARY 13, 2022
The Region 1 leadership of the School District of Philadelphia and their colleagues at the Pennsylvania Department of Education continue to have a strong focus on children and youth experiencing homelessness.

People’s Emergency Center (PEC) summarized a Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) report on the ‘
Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness’ (ECYEH) that provides data specific to Region 1, which includes the Philadelphia School District, charter schools, and information from shelters. ​

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Playful Learning Landscapes

1/12/2022

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Playful learning
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JANUARY 13, 2022
By Guest Columnists Sarah Lytle and Ally Masters, Playful Learning Landscapes
Imagine a caregiver and child sitting at a bus stop. The child is antsy and is having trouble waiting. Now imagine that the bus stop has a small area behind it with activities for the caregiver and child to engage in while they are waiting. A short walking path is dotted with tiles that display pictures. The child walks along the path, and together the caregiver and child make up a story using the pictures they come across. Instead of merely waiting for a bus, they are now engaged in playful learning: the child is active (not passive), engaged (not distracted), the vocabulary they’re learning is meaningful (not disjointed), this learning is socially interactive (not solo), the activity can be tweaked to many different levels and is therefore iterative (not merely repetitive), and finally, it is joyful.

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