Perry County DA announces that he’s running for Court of Common Pleas judge
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
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Bender has served in his current role for the past five years.
A native of Perry County, Bender lives in Saville Township with his wife Sarah and their two young children. They are expecting their third child this spring.
Bender is a graduate of West Perry High School, Lebanon Valley College and Villanova University School of Law. He began his legal career as a law clerk in the Court of Common Pleas of the 41st Judicial District. Before being elected District Attorney in 2015, Bender served as an assistant district attorney in Perry County and later as an attorney for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, where most of his time was spent on child abuse appeals.
Are Claims of a Crisis in Child Care Overblown?
Our view of a widely reported, COVID-caused child-care “crisis” is almost entirely driven by anecdotal evidence promoted by advocacy groups. To make good policy in a crucial area, we need more reliable data.
Emphasizing an “acute, immediate child-care crisis in America,” President Biden included $40 billion in his recently-proposed $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan,” aimed to save thousands of struggling child-care businesses and enable millions of women now stuck at home to return to work.
As I suggested in a recently-published article, though, we know too little about the child care problem we’re planning to spend billions of dollars to solve. That’s because our view of a widely reported, COVID-caused child-care “crisis” is almost entirely driven by anecdotal evidence promoted by advocacy groups. To make good policy in a crucial area, we need more reliable data.
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A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has validated a tool measuring adherence to a popular child feeding approach used by pediatricians, nutritionists, social workers and child psychologists to assess parents feeding practices and prevent feeding problems.
The best-practice approach, known as the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding, has now been rigorously tested and peer reviewed, resulting in the quantifiable tool sDOR.2-6y. The questionnaire will become a standard parent survey for professionals and researchers working in the early childhood development field, predicts lead researcher Barbara Lohse, director of RIT s Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition. We ve shown that the Satter survey can be used to measure that a child from 2 to 6 years old is at nutrition risk, Lohse said. It s important to identify that early and prevent it from continuing because the last thing we want to have is a child at nutrition risk. They re not going to grow o