Dauphin County resident awarded Blue-Ribbon Champion for Safe Kids award
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Pa Family Support Alliance, the state’s leader in child abuse prevention, has awarded Casey Stokes-Rodriguez with the Blue-Ribbon Champion for Safe Kids award. This award is given to five Pennsylvanians who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to support and protect Pennsylvania’s children.
Stokes-Rodriguez serves as a licensed social worker at the Harrisburg School District where she is the School Culture, Climate, and Trauma Resource Specialist. She works to ensure that students have a safe environment and is dedicated to preventing abuse, a press release said. She also provides trauma-informed supports and interventions to high school students and their families, as well as faculty members within the district. She understands the gravity of what occurs when a child has endured abuse and works to address their unique needs.
To qualify, a household must be responsible to pay rent on a residential property, and:
one or more people within the household have qualified for unemployment benefits, had a decrease in income, had increased household costs, or experienced other financial hardship due directly or indirectly to the COVID-19 pandemic;
One or more individuals in the household can show a risk of experiencing homelessness or housing instability; and
the household has an income at or below 80 percent of Area Median Income.
The median income for Bucks County is $89,139, per the latest data available from the U.S. Census Bureau; according to the state human services department, 80 percent of Bucks County s AMI translates to income limits of:
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GOP accuses Wolf administration official of playing politics with food assistance benefits
Updated Apr 08, 2021;
Posted Apr 08, 2021
Republicans accuse Pennsylvania s Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller of playing politics by warning that extra federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits the state receives goes away if the Legislature decides to end the governor s COVID-19 emergency disaster declaration. 2017.
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Pennsylvania receives an extra $100 million each month to provide low-income residents with federally-funded food assistance benefits, but the state’s human services secretary said that aid would disappear a month after Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 emergency declaration ends.
In a virtual news conference on Thursday, Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller said she wanted to raise awareness of that possibility if the pandemic-related declaration expires. Miller said such an outcome would affect nearly 600,00