Quality, safe child care is a pathway to economic stability, can play a role in promoting equity, and is essential to children’s health and development. However, the U.S. has faced a crisis for years regarding affordability and accessibility of quality child care, and the COVID-19…

Guidelines recommend that primary care clinicians address a broad range of wellness topics, but time constraints limit clinicians’ ability to address them in the context of well child visits. A greater understanding of the salience of different wellness topics to families and…

On behalf of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers at PolicyLab responded to a request for comment on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) draft research plan for evaluating “Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children." In reviewing the draft…

PolicyLab experts responded to a Request for Comment on Pennsylvania's proposed changes to child care subsidy regulations "Subsidized Child Care Eligibility Requirements." More specifically, the experts provide their feedback to various proposed changes to the regulations in…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) now affects at least 1 in 59 children. While we know that we can often detect ASD by age 2, the average age of diagnosis remains 4 years old and is even later for racial/ethnic minority, rural and low-income youth and girls. This is concerning as early…

A new PolicyLab Research at a Glance brief has serious implications for how we think about addressing child poverty. Researchers, clinicians and child welfare advocates have long known that poverty can negatively influence child development. Kids in low-income families are more likely…

With the start of the school year quickly approaching, Philadelphia’s youngest students are facing another year of troubling rates of suspension and expulsion. While often thought of as a problem for older children, Philadelphia, and communities across the country, are…