Congress approved of provisions prioritizing children who experience homelessness to be served by Head Start, the Child Care Development Fund, and other high quality early learning programs. This Summit will explore what has happened since those changes, identify challenges, and consider the future.
1755 N 13th Street
Room 200 A, B, and C
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Monica 201-617-0901 Ext. 25611 Head Start program |
Lorie Ackerman Family Promise of Delaware County, Pennsylvania |
Tamara Acuna Centers for Communities in Schools |
Atiya Alexander MCIU |
Jason Alexander Capacity for Change LLC |
Nethania Andre ACF |
Amanda Atkinson Public Health Management Corporation , ECE |
Dr. Marnie Aylesworth PAKEYS |
Stacy Ayres MCIU |
Shira Badanes ELRC 18 - Caring People Alliance , Manager, Provider/STARS |
Angelica Baez Acelero Learning |
Marilyn Barge School District of Philadelphia |
Heidi Beck New Directions Early Head Start - University of DE |
Lynda Becker PA's Education for Children and Youth Experiencing |
Migdalia Benique Acelero Learning |
Deborah Bergeron Administration for Children and Families, HHS |
Brandi Berry Montgomery County Intermediate Unit |
Elizabeth Bertolet Interfaith Hospitality Network of the Main Line |
Donna Bibbs CHOP- Early Head Start |
Chrissy Bishop ElleVintage Visions |
Erin Blair National Nurse-Led Care Consortium , Nurse |
Toscha Blalock Maternity Care Coalition |
Zakiyyah Boone Greater Philadelphia YMCA |
Sharronda Boston CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST |
Janneen Boyce Delaware Social Services |
Carl Boyd Center for Family Services |
Melanie Brennan KenCrest Services |
Samia Bristow Maternity Care Coalition |
Dannette Brogdon-Williams KenCrest |
Katrina Brooks Bucks County Intermediary Unit |
Kellie Brown William Penn Foundation |
Laura Brown Families Forward , Childrens Staff |
Latisha Brown-Swans Lutheran Settlement/Jane Addams Residence |
Lucia Buffaloe CBIZ KA Consulting Services, LLC |
Vernetta Burger Methodist Services |
Suzanne Burnette NJ Department of Education |
Harriet Burton-Wilson DHS- City of Phila. , CUA-Parent Cafes |
Sally Byard ICF |
Melissa Calhoun ACF |
Storm Camara Pennsylvania Department of Education |
Tiffany Camps peoples emergency center , Coordinator, Children?s Education and Activities P |
Roberta Cancellier Cancellier Household , Deputy Director |
Marcelino Cardenas Norris Square Community Alliance |
Larry Chamberlain Delaware Health and Social Services |
Dionne Chambers Free Library of Philadelphia |
Amanda Charles William Penn Foundation , Program Associate |
Tracey Cherry Cherry Household , pec |
Aisha Childs PHMC, HELP Philadelphia , Resource Specialist |
Jessica Clarkson Delaware Social Services |
Alexis Cleveland Child Inc |
Gay Cole Montclair Child Development Center Inc |
Jeannette Cole Cole Household , Manager, Behavioral Health Servicess |
Anne Marie Collins Collins Household , Vice President/Executive Director |
Samantha Conway Scranton Lackawamma Human Development Agency |
John Cook Delaware Social Services |
Cheryl Cooper Jewish Family and Children's Service |
Sophie Cornfield AFEL/PEC , Community Navigator |
Edwina Coverson-Barnes DCIU Early Head Start/Head Start |
Robert Crawford City of Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services |
Cherie Crosby Manor College |
Eugene Crossland Child Inc |
Jj Cutuli Nemours , Assistant Professor |
Susan Damico Devereux Center for Resilient Children |
Lillian Davis dhs |
Blair Dawson Your Way Home Montgomery County |
Maribel De Jesus Acelero Learning |
Kathy Desmond PEC , President |
Tameka DeShields Maternity Care Coalition , Early Head Start |
Stephanie Devose Stenton Family Manor , Bright Space Coordinator |
Joy Diljohn The School District of Philadelphia |
Mary Doughty KenCrest Services |
Mary Doughty KenCrest Services |
Trish Downey HopePHL , Director, Communications |
De’Wayne Drummond Mantua Civic Association |
Tracy Duarte Duarte Household , Director |
Teresa Duncan Center for Leadership, Development and Advocacy , Director of Education and Programs |
Joan Duvall-Flynn Trauma Informed Education Coalition/ NAACP PA |
Joe Eastman The Chapel of Four Chaplains , Director of Veterans Services |
Jacqueline Edmond Edmond Educational Enterprises, LLC |
Roslyn Edwards PEC , Project Director |
Marsha Eichelberger Inter-Faith Housing Alliance , Executive Director |
Alexandra Ernst Public Health Management Corporation |
Karen Escalante NJ Dept of Children & Families, Division on Women |
Maria Estrada MCIU |
Sharonda Everett West End Neighborhood House |
Karin Eyrich Garg Temple University School of Social Work , Professor |
Daniel Farrell Farrell Household |
Tekishua Felder Your Child’s World Learning |
Angela Fields Family Promise of Hunterdon County |
Jeffrey Fields County of Bucks |
Elba Figueroa Acelero Learning Headstart |
Maria Figueroa Acelero Learning Head Start |
Allyson Fisher CHILD, Inc |
Ray Fitzgerald Delaware Social Services |
Diane Frentzel Delaware Readiness Teams |
Yvette Fuller ACF |
Krista Getts SLHDA |
Frederick Gigliotti Gigliotti Household , Director of Emergency Housing |
Shonna Gillis Telamon Corporation Delaware Head Start Program |
Kimberly Gilmore Acenda Integrated Health |
Sarah Glasheen UnitedHealthcare Community & State |
Regina Glass Department Of Human Services |
James Godboldt Jr Small Wonders FCCH |
Marybeth Gonzales Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services , Director of Planning and Performance |
Marisa Gonzalez Reg. III HUD |
Carolyn Gordon Family Promise |
Cindy Gorman Scranton Lackawanna Human Development Agency |
Jacqueline Green Philadelphia Parent Child Center, Inc. |
Malene Green Elwyn , Director, EI |
Karen Grimm-Thomas PA OCDEL |
Zakiyyah Harris visitation homes , Case Manager |
Deborah Hartranft School District , Program Manager - Intake with SDP |
Maureen Hayes Triskele Consulting Group |
Charlene Heeney Health Federation EHS |
Lori Hendrickson Hendrickson and Ramsden Household , Chief of Staff |
Janette Herbers Villanova University |
Emma Hertz Your Way Home Montgomery County |
Brian Hickey ACF |
Karen Hines Acelero Learning , Famil Services Coordinator |
Dominique Hinton Brightside Academy |
Lori Hobaugh U.S. Administration for Children and Families |
Kristen Hoffa Berks County Intermediate Unit |
Elise Holland Elwyn |
Sherilyn Homans West Montgomery County Intermediate Unit #23 |
Doreen Howe NYC Department of Homeless Services |
Shirlee Howe Children First , Policy |
Domonique Howell Liberty Resources Inc |
Karen Hudson Hudson Household , Community Education Program Coordinator |
Rosaida Iraola Kencrest |
Christina Jackey Acenda Integrated Health |
Jeffrey Jackson Pathways to Housing Pa |
Candice Jefferson City of Camden Promise Zone |
Rashanda Jenkins Head Start health consultant |
Cory Johnson Drexel University Action for Early Learning |
Eric Johnson FirstUp |
Janelle Johnson Acenda Health Integrated |
Melissa Johnson CHOP HHI , Social Worker |
Josie Jones KenCrest Services-West |
Keshia Jones Bell-Jones Household |
Samantha Jones Congreso de Latinos Unidos |
Emily Kavanagh Chester County Intermediate Unit |
Terry Kenworthy Chester County Intermediate Unit |
Wanjiru Kimani Montgomery County Intermediate Unit #23 |
Lyn Kirshenbaum HUD |
Tabitha Kramer Education for Children and Youth Exp. Homelessness |
Janet Kroll The Stoneleigh Foundation , Strategy and Planning Officer |
Melissa Kull Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago |
Pat LaMarche LaMarche Household |
Colleen Landy Landy Household , Assistant Director of Educating Children and Youth |
Ximena Laz Telamon Corporation Delaware |
Maria Lizardi Today's Child Learning Center-Feltonville |
Marilyn Llanos KenCrest Services (Kensington Center) , Family Service Representative |
Donovan Lloyd Child Inc |
Kimberly Logan Administration for Children and Families |
Linda Lopez The Salvation Army, Syracuse Area Services |
Henry Love Gateway Housing |
Brittany MacGregor SLHDA-Head Start |
Latoya Maddox Liberty Resources Inc |
Lisbel Madera Health Federation of Philadelphia , Community Involvement Specialist, EHS |
MaryKay Mahar Public Health Management Corporation |
Diane Mapp Note2Queen Inc |
Dora Marques CBIZ KA Consulting Services, LLC |
Gillian Martenson Project HOME , Director, Rowan Judson |
Joanne Matagrano-Mullin Atkinson's |
Rhena McClain St. Barnabas Mission , Executive Dept Manager |
Brittany McClay Diversified Community Services-Western |
Pamela McCrea The Caring Center |
Kara McFalls Pennsylvania Head Start Association |
Brian McShane Corporation for Supportive Housing |
Kathy Meck Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation |
Brandi Miller Health Consultant |
Colleen Mishra People's Emergency Center-AFEL Program Manager , Director |
Dina Mitchell Community of Hope , former CPECE Director |
Marjie Mogul Maternity Care Coalition |
Laura Montes Congreso |
Luz Morales OHS (EARU) |
Darlene Morris Morris Household |
Kathy Mosley Acelero Learning Camden/Philadelphia |
Kathleen Murphey Region III Head Start TTA |
Brenda Myrick Interfaith Hospitality Network of Essex County |
Glendolyn Newmuis Office of Head Start - Region 03 |
Paola Nova Acelero Learning |
Ann O'Brien Executive Director |
Suzanne O'Connor United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern NJ , ECE |
Janet Panning Montgomery County Office of Public Health |
Kathleen Pathan ACF |
Kim Paymaster Pew Charitable Trusts |
Marilyn Pendelton Your Voice Heard, Inc. |
Rashanda Perryman Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program |
Shellie Peters U.S. Administration for Children & Familes, Region |
Tammy Petrowicz ICF/Region III Head Start T/TA |
Alisha Pettit Brightside Academy |
Tracey Petty School District of Phila |
Joan Pfender Bucks County Intermediate Unit |
Belinda Piercy ICF |
Jennifer Plummer Davis Retired |
Sally Poliwoda Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Donald Price Esperanza FQHC , Vice President |
Shante Quartlebaum Families Forward |
Maureen Quinn KENCREST , Government Affairs |
MIchael Rabb CATCH Inc |
Amanda Ragnauth Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness |
Dave Raible Raible Household , Vice President, Development |
John Ramos State of New Jersey |
Kim Rank Chester County Intermediate Unit |
Charlene Rawlinson Lene’s Daily Child Care Inc. |
Natalie Renew Home based child care collaborative |
Altagracia Reynoso Acelero Early Head Start |
Neibert Richards Episcopal Community Services , Senior Director of Housing |
Alanna Rivera Acelero Learning |
Dorcas Rivera Health Federation of Philadelphia |
LaTiana RIdgell Nurse Family Partnership , Home Visiting |
Sakinah Thelma Robbins Reality House Inc. |
Lisa Robinson Your Child’s World Learning |
Shirley Robinson Public Health Management Corporation , Program Director |
Cathy Roccia-Meier Temple University |
Heidy Rodriguez Acelero |
Cynthia Romero Office of Head Start |
Donna Rook State of New Jersey |
Judith Samuels The Samuels Group |
Jonathan Santiago Norris Square Community Alliance |
Joe Savage U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness , Regional Coordinator |
Deborah Schardinger Bucks County Intermediate Unit |
Intisar Shah Nicetown CDC |
Karen Shanoski Centers for Schools and Communities |
Sara Shaw Child Trends , Research Scientist |
Kathryn Shields People's Emergency Center |
Yun Shin La Casa de Don Pedro |
Kayleigh Silver Your Way Home |
Chandra Smith The Salvation Army |
Jessica Smith Maternity Care Coalition , Early Head Start Philadelphia County Director |
Missy Smith ICF |
Adamary Sosa Norris Square Community Alliance , Director |
Wes Southall Delaware Social Services |
Liam Spady Office of Homeless Services |
Karla Sprouse ICF |
Vanessa Stansbury Children & Families First |
Debra Taylor Delaware Head Start State Collaborative |
Kenneth Taylor Philadelphia Parent Child Center, Inc. |
Minnette Taylor Mini Montessori Academy |
Abby Thaker Read by 4th / Free Library of Philadelphia , Staff |
Caroline Theis Inter-Faith Housing Alliance |
Kelly Thomas Thomas Household , AFEL Family Navigator |
Sonya Thomas Urban Affairs Coalition PHLpreK |
Tara Tomasko Episcopal Community Services |
Jody Vaughn Booz Allen Hamilton - Region III OHS |
Maggie Velazquez Montgomery County Intermediate Unit |
Jessica Vogt Greater PHILADELPHIA YMCA |
Sarah Vrabic Vrabic Household , ECE Specialist |
Leah W CHILD Inc. |
Wendy Wagner First Up |
Margie Wakelin Education Law Center , Attorney |
Dwayne Walker Walker Household , AFEL Family Navigator |
Dwayne Walker PEC |
Maria Walker Drexel University Action for Early Learning |
Laura Wallace Maternity Care Coalition , Director of Early Learning |
Margaret Wallace STEHM INC |
Joseph Warburton Camden Promise Zone |
Ida Washington West End Neighborhood House |
June Waters-Bey Institute on Disabilities at Temple University |
Iyisha Weaver Weaver Household , ECE Specialist |
Joyel Weems Phmc |
Beverly Wellons ACF-Office of Child Care |
Grace Whitney Whitney Household , ECE |
Shirley Williams Philadelphia Parent Child Center, Inc. |
Terrie Williams Henrietta Johnson Medical Health Center , Homeless Program Manager |
Tina Williams-Mitchum DHS |
Catherine Wilson United Way of Essex & West Hudson |
Marcel Witmer The Children's Hospital of Philadelphi |
Paula Wolfe CSIU/Northumberland Area Early Head Start |
Schermelle Wright Montclair Child Development Center, Inc. |
Jessica Yambo Acelero Learning |
Natalie Young U.S. Administration for Children & Familes, Region |
Sherry Zebrook STEHM INC |
Zijin Zhang University of Pennsylvania |
Francie Zimmerman Center for the Study of Social Policy , Senior Associate |
Sue Zomberg Inter-Faith Housing Alliance |