​Report and Forum Announced

PA Continuums of Care and Head Start Working Together to Address Housing Vulnerability of Pennsylvania's Families
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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Working 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 Continuum of Care (CoC) program. The CoC is the system providing strategy, guidelines, and funding for regional approaches to address homelessness. Pennsylvania has 16 CoCs.  ​

We show how many homeless children and families are being served, where they are, and their housing vulnerability. We offer a few recommendations that we hope will increase housing stability for these families.

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Join our Forum about this Report! ​

The Pennsylvania Head Start State Collaboration Office and PEC are organizing a forum to explain our new report and offer insight from local leadership from rural, suburban, and urban regions.

Date & Time: Wednesday, February 23, 10 AM to 11:30 AM, via Zoom.

The forum will feature a panel of practitioners discussing strategies to increase enrollment and new data showing the prevalence of children experiencing homelessness enrolled into Head Start, according to the CoC regions. Moderators include Tracy Duarte, Director of the PA Head Start State Collaboration Office, and Joe Willard VP of Policy at People's Emergency Center.

Panelists will include:

• Tiffany Jones of the Center for Community Action, which covers Bedford / Huntingdon / Fulton counties in the Eastern PA Continuum of Care and in the Early Learn Resource Center (ELRC) #6.  
  
• Tabitha Kramer of Region 2 of the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Region 2 covers Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and Schuylkill counties. Region 2 identifies more children experiencing homelessness than any other region in Pennsylvania.  
  
• A leader from the ELRC #18 (Philadelphia) to be named.  
  
• A local Head Start agency to be named.  
  

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