It’s clear the commonwealth has fallen way short of the promise to urgently prioritize vulnerable children and youth.
| OpinionAdvocates for child welfare reform rallied earlier this year in the Capitol to highlight Child Abuse Prevention Month and to push for Pennsylvania’s child advocacy office to be written into statute.In July 2019 with significant celebration, Pennsylvania’s governor publicly signed an executive order assuring it would “triage complaints regarding government services” particularly responsive to concerns that “may adversely affect the health, safety, or welfare of a child or children.
Six months ago, Gov. Josh Shapiro directly met with youth. Youth showed up, despite the potential emotional exhaustion and fear of judgement, to spotlight safety concerns, challenges in securing educational and health care services and the trauma that follows a child being removed from their families.
Today, despite public dollars being spent both to remove children from their homes and to fund their out-of-home placements or to maintain an Office of Child Advocate, there remains nothing but ambiguity. There remains no readily available complaint process to engage an independent party when a youth is unsafe or are not receiving key educational or health care services or effective permanency planning services.
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