Daily News | Philly kids are still suffering COVID’s consequences, from mental health to childcare
16,000 city children out of poverty at the height of the pandemic“We have kids staying home with no adults, or kids who were safer at schools than they were in their homes,” said Donna Cooper, executive director of the nonprofit group now calledThe organization, previously known as Public Citizens for Children and Youth, issues a report on the state of child welfare every two years.
In Philadelphia, 365 childcare providers shuttered from 2020 to 2022, according to data that Children First obtained from the state. This represents more than a third of all childcare providers in the city.Central High School, said the pandemic nearly derailed her future, which she hopes will include medical school.at the beginning of 2020, she was a freshman with a circle of a dozen close friends. Then school campuses were abruptly closed in an effort to contain the virus.
Younger children also were affected as day-care options dwindled. The cost of childcare in Pennsylvania is high — about $10,000 a year for preschool age children — the report found, and low pay for workers led to a cycle of closures and resignations that the industry is still struggling to overcome.
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