Press Releases

• Kinship Care Placement with Family or Friends is Focus of Pennsylvania Dependency Court Attorney Educational Session
• Five Pennsylvania Counties Selected for Statewide Initiative Supporting Abused and Neglected Children

• OCFC Expands Family Engagement Initiative; Develops New Judicial Resources
• 2021 Data Reveals Positive Outcomes for Family Engagement Initiative Participating Counties
• Autism and Dependency Court Regional Summits Educate and Train Dependency Court Personnel and Partners

• Dependency courts in the family engagement initiative focus efforts on implicit bias and the urgency of awareness
• Stronger together: Judicial districts are hitting the gas, not the brakes, on family engagement

Pennsylvania participates in virtual adoption initiative roundtable - The growing focus on kinship care

• The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts produces community-outreach campaign to help strengthen children, families and communities
• Pennsylvania sees a positive increase in kinship care placement over the last five years

• OCFC represents Pennsylvania on national opioid task force
• Six Pennsylvania Counties Selected for Initiative Supporting Abused and Neglected Children

• Seven counties selected for new initiative to support abused and neglected children.
• Helping abused and neglected children cope with separation from family and loved ones

• Celebrating a decade of helping children
• Pennsylvania Courts release video to help parents navigate the dependency process
• Pennsylvania’s dependency system celebrates 10-year milestone
• Infographic-PA children under dependency court supervision
• Pennsylvania Courts Highlight “Normalcy” for Children in Foster Care
• New OCFC video encourages "normalcy" for foster children
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court institutes new continuing education requirements for judges and justices

• Comfort Dogs Have Dramatic Impact in Dependency Court
• Kinship Foster Care Parents on the Rise in Pennsylvania
• How the courts are fostering ties between kids and their absent parents
• Specially trained canines help ease courtroom tensions
• Work to guide and improve foster care grows in size and deed

• Updated guide issued for child dependency matters
• Protecting a Child
• Court data confirms: number of dependent Pennsylvania children safely remaining in their homes or with family continues to increase
• Supreme Court Continues to Strengthen Rules to Protect Kids in Court

• New Court Website Feature Provides Detailed Look at Child Dependency Cases – Case Data to Aid in Improving Care for Abused, Neglected Children
• 7,000 Fewer Children in Pennsylvania Foster Care

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sponsors Family Group Decision Making Conference
• Attorneys Representing Abused and Neglected Children Receive New Training Tool
• Court's Initiative is Improving Lives of Dependent Children

• Dependency Court Gets Social Science Perspective With New Judicial Guide
• Extreme Recruitment
• Supreme Court Issues Judicial Guide to Benefit Children, Families
• Justice Max Baer and Members of the State Children's Roundtable will Honor Students Placing in a Truancy Art Logo Contest
• Child and Parent Legal Representation Training Begins

• Judge involves families to help tackle truancy
• State Supreme Court to Host Children’s Summit
• Court Releases Historic Child Dependency Guide
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds annual Children’s Roundtable Meetings

• First Ever Children’s Roundtable Summit – AOPC Connect 4th issue
• Planting an Acorn to Protect a Child
• State Supreme Court to Host First Annual Children’s Summit
• Now in Philadelphia, A High School Only For Foster Kids
• New Approach Tried in Pennsylvania Family Court
• Children and Youth Services Selected to Participate in Second Phase
• Supreme Court Initiative to Improve Lives of Dependent Children Shows Early Progress
• Statewide Foster Care Initiative Sees Results in Montgomery County
• 13 Additional Counties Join Initiative to Improve Lives of Dependent Children
• Legislature Shouldn’t Play Budgetary Waiting Game with Foster Kids’ Lives
• Families 4 Children’ Priorities Include Protection and Promoting Well-Being
• Moving to Place Abused Children in Permanent Homes
• Family Finding Locates Kin of Kids in Foster Care
• New Principles Aim to Help Abused and Neglected Children
• Dependency Court Judges, Children and Youth Officials Collaborate to Help Dependent Children
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Co-Sponsor 2009 International Conference Aimed at Improving Outcomes for Abused and Neglected Children
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Adopts New Rules to Put Appeals of Children's Cases on Fast Track

• Supreme Court Starts Initiative to Help Kids in Foster Care
• 15 Counties Join Courts Initiative to Improve lives of Dependent Children
• Rules Changes Proposed to Speed Cases for Children
• Giving Kids a Better Chance
• States Take Aim at Reducing Number of Children in Foster Care
• Improvement Project for Dependency Courts Moves Forward
• Washington County First in State to Implement Child Dependency Data Tracking System
• National Forum on Children, Families and the Courts

• Dauphin County Administrator Hired to Direct Statewide Office of Children and Families
• New Court Office Aims to Aid State’s Dependent Children
• National Summit Buttresses Partnerships to Aid Pennsylvania's Abused and Neglected Children

• New Office of Children and Families in the Courts Created by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• New Rules Adopted for Juvenile Court Cases to Aid Dependent Children and Families

Pennsylvania Court and Child Welfare Agencies to Participate in National Landmark Meeting to Reform Foster Care System