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NEW THIS WEEK: Study Finds that Community Revitalization Can Create a Greater
Wealth Gap
Researchers at Franklin & Marshall College's Floyd Institute for Public Policy say that per
capita income in the City of Lancaster has dropped in all areas around its Center City
development area which, in contrast, has shown a significant increase.
In Lancaster Prospers? An Analysis of Census Data on Economic Opportunities and
Outcomes, the study finds a complex but clear geography of growing inequalities in the
City, brought about by changes in the types and job opportunities available to City
residents, notably the loss of middle class jobs and their disproportionate replacement by
less well-paying jobs.
These trends have affected Blacks and Latinos disproportionately, but by no means
exclusively, researchers say, reporting that poverty and unemployment have increased
and remain elevated for Lancaster Citys White residents.
Such results manifest themselves in inequalities of outcomes in terms of income, poverty,
and home ownership and, consequently, may also affect the socio-economic fabric of
neighborhoods, the study says.
Further information is provided by Lancaster Online at
www.lancasteronline.com/news/local/has-revitalization-created-lancasters-f-m-study-sayscity-s/article_d7c2488a-42cd-11e5-bc7e-abbf771a5fef.html#.VdHJJAukR80.facebook, with
the study at www.lancasteronline.com/lancaster-prospers-an-analysis-of-census-data-oneconomic-opportunities/html_3c5ab0dc-41f4-11e5-bdc8-273e37615f3b.html.
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cases. However, organizations using volunteers raised concern about future recruitment
due to the costs.
The list of persons required to obtain clearances, according to the Governor's Office, are:
-- Child care service employees;
-- Foster parents and adult household members;
-- Prospective adoptive parents and adult household members;
-- Individuals 14 year of age or older applying for a paid position as an employee
responsible for the welfare of a child or having direct contact with children;
-- Any individual seeking or provide child-care services under contract with a child-care
facility or program;
-- School employees governed by public school code and those not governed by the public
school code (colleges and universities).
More information about clearances required under the Child Protective Services Law is
available at www.keepkidssafe.pa.gov. Individuals seeking clearances can go directly to
www.compass.state.pa.us/cwis to create an individual account and apply for child abuse
history certifications electronically.
NEW THIS WEEK: Over 500 Chester County Homeless Served This Year
Chester County Decade to Doorways, the 10-year plan to end homelessness, reports
serving over 500 individuals and family members during the first six months of this year
through both emergency and transitional housing.
The initiative logged 277 individuals and 185 family members, including 107 children of
which 69% were age five or under and 118 females, for emergency housing from January to
June 30.
Another 35 individuals and 37 family members, including 22 children of which 15 were five
and under, along with 206 veterans, were involved in transitional housing, according to the
report.
In the meantime, a Pennsylvania State Data Center Research Brief, based on Census data,
found that 8,287 persons were in the states emergency and transitional shelters in 2010,
up from 5,463 a decade before.
The number of individuals in Pennsylvania emergency and transitional shelters rose by 51.7
percent from 2000 to 2010, the fifth highest percentage in the country and more than twice
the national rate.
The report represents a count of individuals at emergency and transitional shelters only and
is not a count of the entire population experiencing homelessness, something the Census
Bureau doesn't record.
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NEW LAST WEEK: Long-time Lanco Nonprofits Hit by Funding Focus Shift; Will the
New Paradigm Expand?
Will more nonprofit organizations be cut by funders focusing on broad-based collaborative
impacts versus current narrowly-focused programs?
A Lancaster Online report says that several long-time agencies in Lancaster County are
struggling after the United Way of Lancaster County moved to collective capacity awards
this year, cutting all or much of its prior funding to those organizations and re-allocating to
others based on specific community focuses and required broad-based collaborations to
meet identified needs and vision.
The story appears at www.lancasteronline.com/news/local/charities-cut-loose-by-unitedway-are-trimming-staff-squeezing/article_d8d89054-3c64-11e5-947497f07ab3606c.html#.VceniDCVWDs.facebook.
Additional information on Why the United Way is reinventing itself and shaking up the
nonprofit world is available at www.lancasteronline.com/news/local/why-the-united-way-isreinventing-itself-and-shaking-up/article_cd2ed490-a3fb-11e4-9898-1704adbd4b24.html
with our own prior report about a Pequea Valley School District collaboration in Eastern
Lancaster County being granted $297,500 in each of the next three years in a first-time
award at www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/posts/872618769470042.
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NEW LAST WEEK: Some Medicare Part B Enrollees Face 52 Percent Premium Hike
About 30 percent of Medicare Part B enrollees may be facing a 52 percent increase in
premiums next year if the federal Department of Health and Human Services doesn't
determine ways to lower it.
The estimate is contained within the 2015 Annual Report to Congress of the Boards of
Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary
Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
A hold-harmless provision in the law, which affects
about 70 percent of Medicare enrollees, limits the
current monthly dollar increase in the Part B premium
of $104.90 to the dollar increase in an individuals
Social Security benefit, according to the report.
Without the hold-harmless provision, beneficiaries
would face a premium of $120.70 for 2016. However,
due to no anticipated cost-of-living adjustment for
Social Security benefits next year, premiums would
remain at the current level for those beneficiaries.
As a result, the needed difference is transferred to the remaining 30 percent of beneficiaries
which include new enrollees during the year, those who do not receive a Social Security
benefit check, and enrollees with high incomes, along with state Medicaid programs that pay
the full premium for dual Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries.
The result is a $159.30 estimated payment for those 30 percent, according to the report,
available at www.cms.gov//Statis/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2015.pdf, with the
analysis at Page 33.
NEW LAST WEEK: Depression Isnt a Normal Part of Aging According to National
Institute of Mental Health
Although depression is a common problem among older adults, it isnt a normal part of
aging, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
In a new publication, Older Adults and Depression, the
NIMH outlines the different forms of depression, its signs
and symptoms, its causes and treatments, how to talk with a loved one who may be
depressed, and how to help oneself if depressed.
An online version is available at www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/older-adults-anddepression/index.shtml.
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NEW LAST WEEK: Penn Medicine Cited for Transformative Actions in Health Care
Penn Medicine, the parent of Lancaster General Health and Chester County Hospital, is
seeking to transform health care, using rapid, low-cost experiments to explore new
approaches to improving care.
Commonwealth Fund, a private Washington, D.C. foundation that seeks to promote a highperforming health care system, reports on these initiatives in an "Enabling Change in Health
Care" case study, available at www.medium.com/@CommonwealthFund/penn-medicinecenter-for-health-care-innovation-enabling-change-612703a8f53b.
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In addition, the County failed to follow up on initial alerts that went out in regard to heat
conditions being extended for a second day or providing any information at all under the
recent alerts list on the Ready ChesCo website, Jones said. He previously had reported the
lack of cross-platform public information consistency.
Commissioners Chair Terence Farrell requested that Jones meet with Kagel after the
meeting.
Kagel declared during that session that the system is working as we anticipated and
alleged the public is being advised via website instructions as to system limitations.
During the same session, however, he admitted that a new alerting system that went into
operation in June has problems, such as not reporting flooding alerts that Jones had pointed
out. He said the County will continue to rely upon automatic electronic alerts, without
human oversight, despite Jones having noted that these systems have not worked several
times already this year.
During the discussion Kagel also revealed:
-- County residents now will receive alerts based only on where they live, even if they are
just across the geographic divide of the National Weather Service north-south County
forecast line and travel to other parts of the County for work or other activities.
Jones previously had pointed out that just over 80,000 people are reported to leave and
nearly 80,000 more enter the county for employment, according to a County Planning
Commission report, with others traveling daily for shopping, recreation and other activities.
-- No additional alerts will be issued if the time for an original event is extended beyond the
initial alert period.
-- The preparedness component of the Countys emergency management system will refer
residents to the federal Ready.gov website for response information.
Kagel said the public needs to take responsibility for its own preparedness. He also
maintained he is confident the system is adequate to alert the public in event of a tornado
or flood, although he didnt address the inconsistency between this statement and what has
been happening.
Jones said he will continue to pursue nearly five years of effort with the Department of
Emergency Services and three years with the Board of Commissioners to have a viable and
reliable public disaster preparedness alerting system to help protect County residents and
visitors.
Free Summer Breakfasts and Lunches for Kids Available at Community Sites
Sites in several area communities have opened to serve
breakfasts and/or lunches to children 18 years of age
and younger.
The Summer Food Service Program, funded through the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, is providing meals at
some 1,800 sites in Pennsylvania.
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Further information, including a searchable sites locator listing types of meals and dates, is
available at www.fns.usda.gov/sfsp/summer-meals-toolkit-summer-meal-sites. An
additional breakfast and lunch site not yet on the map is located at Lincoln University, 351
Kersey Street, Coatesville, with further information available at (484) 784-5945.
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The income limit is $35,000 a year for homeowners and $15,000 annually for renters, with
half of Social Security income being excluded from the limit. In addition, due to program
changes last year to ensure claimants arent disqualified from rebates solely because of
Social Security cost-of-living-adjustments, homeowners and renters may be eligible for
rebates even if their eligibility income is greater than these limits.
Therefore, any homeowner who collected Social Security, received a property tax rebate in
2013 for claim year 2012 and had annual income last year discounting half of Social
Security up to $36,129 ($15,484 for renters), is encouraged to apply for a rebate for
claim year 2014. The maximum standard rebate is $650, but supplemental rebates for
certain qualifying homeowners can boost rebates to $975, with the Pennsylvania
Department of Revenue automatically calculating supplemental rebates for qualifying
homeowners.
Further information and applications are available at
www.revenue.pa.gov/GeneralTaxInformation/PropertyTaxRentRebateProgram/Pages/default
.aspx#.VX_2pka9BP1, county Department of Aging and senior centers, and state legislator
offices. Application deadline and income limit information hadnt been updated on some
Department of Revenue web pages as of this writing but appears at
www.media.pa.gov/Pages/Revenue-Details.aspx?newsid=139.
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resources and needs that can build "bridges" toward a more integrated Kennett area
community. On September 9, the group will meet at La Comunidad Hispana, 731 West
Cypress Street, Kennett Square. Additional information is available from Joan Holliday at
dochollisv@aol.com or (610) 717-2180. Minutes from prior meetings are available at
www.bridgingcommunity.com/bridging.php.
Chester County Faith Community Health Ministry Network meets from 4 p.m. to
5:15 p.m., on the first Thursday of each month, from September through June to exchange
information on promotion of holistic health within faith congregations and communities and
to develop additional faith community nurses, also known as parish nurses. Further
information is available from Joan Holliday at dochollisv@aol.com or (610) 717-2180.
COSECHA (Harvest) meets from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. the second Wednesday of the
month from September through June at the Head Start Center, 380 West Cedar Street,
Kennett Square. Further information is available from Elizabeth Garduno at
elizabethga@cciu.org or (610) 444-2880 x305.
Coatesville Area Resource Network (CARN) meets from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on the third
Wednesday of the month, except August and December, in the fourth floor conference room
at Brandywine Health Center at 744 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville. Representatives of
community organizations exchange information about current and upcoming activities and
hear presentations from various services providers. Further information is available from
Kathryn Spurlock at ccch@comcast.net or at (610) 380-7111 x16.
Chester County Family and Community Partnership meets from 10 a.m. to noon on
the first Friday of February, April, June, August, October and December at various locations.
The group is a diverse partnership of individuals, families, community organizations, service
agencies, businesses and funders committed to empowering individuals and families in
living self-sufficient, productive and fulfilling lives. Additional information is available from
Kathy Brauner at kbrauner@chesco.org or (610) 344-5262.
Communities That Care (CTC) groups in several Chester County school districts provide
networking opportunities for community organizations and individuals that use a planning
and mobilization model to promote healthy youth development and prevent and reduce
negative youth health and behavior issues that may include substance abuse, delinquency,
teen pregnancy, school drop-out, and violence.
West Chester CTC meets from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the second Thursday of
each month of the school year at the West Chester Area School District Spellman
Administrative Building, 829 Paoli Pike, West Chester. Lunch is provided by
reserving at rsvp@wcctc.org or (610) 359-5817.
Downingtown Area CTC meets from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. the third Tuesday of the
month from September through May at the Lionville Community YMCA, 100 Devon
Drive, Exton (Lionville). Further information and registration available at
dtownctc@umly.org or (610) 458-9090 x2827.
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UPDATED THIS WEEK: Support Groups for Unemployed and Underemployed Ongoing
Several networking/support groups (open to everyone) are available at area churches for
persons who are unemployed or unemployed, with each providing its own variety of specific
services in support of those who attend:
Downingtown (Lionville/Exton) -- Barnabas Group, at Calvary Fellowship Church,
95 West Devon Drive (rear entrance) at Route 113 in Exton (Lionville) is named after
the Biblical disciple known as the Son of Encouragement. Weekly sessions are part
of the churchs Care Monday, that includes a prayer group that meets at the same
time in the Prayer Lobby (Portico Entrance), with intercession for those attending the
Barnabas Group and the churchs other Care Ministries, including DivorceCare for
those coping with separation or divorce, even years later; Mending Hearts for those
with prodigal children and other family members; and various offerings focused on
assistance in healing and coping. Further information for Barnabas Group activities
is available at barnabasgroup@cfdownington.com or (610) 363-7171.
Malvern Penn State Great Valleys Alumni Association and My Career Transitions
(MCT), an all-volunteer job counseling group, meets from 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
the second Saturday of the month, except August and December, in 130 Main
Building, Penn State Great Valley, 30 East Swedesford Road, Malvern, preceded by a
new member orientation at 8:30 a.m. In August, there is no meeting. Further
information and required registration are available at
http://mycareertransitions.com/new/?q=upcoming-meetings.
West Chester Unemployment support group meets bi-weekly from 5:45 p.m. to
7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 130 West Miner Street, West Chester, to
learn tips and techniques related to job searches. Further information is available
from Elisabeth Hartwell at ehartwell@firstpreswc.com, at (610) 696-0554.
West Chester BarnabasWC group meets from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Mondays,
except holidays, in the Community Room, Providence Church, 430 Hannum Avenue,
West Chester. Further information is available at www.barnabaswc.org or
info@barnabaswc.org.
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NEW LAST WEEK: Free Job Assistance Workshops, Job Fairs and Job Openings
Report August
Unemployed and underemployed persons seeking education and training in career planning,
along with employment assistance for veterans, ex-offenders and persons with disabilities,
can take advantage of a broad series of services and monthly workshops offered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Labor CareerLink at its Exton offices in Suite 500, 479 Thomas
Jones Way in the Oaklands Corporate Center.
These trainings include an orientation presentation as to what PA CareerLink has to offer.
A calendar of PA CareerLink-Chester County workshops for the current month is available at
www.pacareerlinkchesco.org/calendar.
Monthly job openings list that provides several pages for the Chester County area is
available at http://chesco.org/DocumentCenter/View/27142. Daily position openings
updates are available through www.cwds.state.pa.us.
Websites for additional county PA CareerLink offices in the area, at which many services are
available to out-of-county residents, include:
Berks: www.co.berks.pa.us/Dept/CareerLink/Pages/default.aspx
Delaware: www.delcoworks.org
Lancaster: www.jobs4lancaster.com
Montgomery: www.montcopa.org/index.aspx?NID=1024
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Free Online Training Available for Health Care Professionals Aiding Veterans
Health care professionals now have a free online course developed by the federal
Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) to help serve veterans and service
members.
The eight-hour Military Culture: Core Competencies for Health Care Professionals training
covers a variety of topics through interactive features, video vignettes, case examples and
treatment planning scenarios.
Each of the four modules within the course was developed using research, surveys and
extensive interviews with service members and veterans.
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Information and registration for the training, along with other military culture-related
materials, are available at www.deploymentpsych.org/Military-Culture.
District Judges and Law Enforcement to Receive Required Mental Health and
Intellectual Disabilities Training
A new Pennsylvania law, to take effect in September, will require law enforcement officers
to obtain training in dealing with persons with mental illness, intellectual disabilities or
autism and district judges in identifying diversion options for such individuals.
State Rep. Thomas Caltagirone of Berks County, sponsor of legislation signed by Gov. Tom
Wolf says that "all parties will be safer ... if a police officer can quickly identify a person
experiencing a mental breakdown and use proven crisis intervention techniques to deescalate a situation."
Municipal police officers would be required to receive training though the Municipal Police
Officers' Education and Training Commission. Training for magisterial district judges would
occur every six years through continuing education requirements.
Further information in regard to the legislation and impacts is available in our earlier
Facebook post at
www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/photos/a.635705349828053.1073741828.62331760
4400161/894508417281077/?type=1.
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Administration (NOAA), National Park Service (NPS), and tribal, state, and local agencies to
provide the public with easy access to national air quality information.
State and local agencies report the air quality index (AQI) for cities across the United States
and parts of Canada and Mexico.
The standards are reported for both ozone and particle pollution, including who is most
effected at various levels and precautions that should be taken. Colors range from green
(good) to purple (very unhealthy) with red and purple levels impacting everyone.
Information on the different levels and their impacts is available at
http://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=tvweather.ataglance.
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-- "There is no safe place outside. You must go inside a sturdy building with walls, closed
windows, electricity and plumbing, or get in a hard topped car with the windows rolled up.
-- "As soon as you can hear thunder or see lightning you are in danger. Don't WAIT...
When thunder roars, go indoors!
-- "Do NOT seek shelter under a tree! Lightning can strike up to 10 miles away from the
storm.
-- "Plan your activities so you don't get caught outside in a thunderstorm. If there are
thunderstorms in the forecast, make sure you can quickly get to a safe shelter or reschedule
the outdoor activity."
Further information is available at www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science/scienceintro.htm.
Pennsylvania is 22nd on States List for Serving Medicaid Recipients with
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
A new report says that Pennsylvania only ranks 22 out of
50 states in how well State Medicaid programs serve Americans
with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD),
including the young and the elderly, and their families.
The United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), in its annual The Case for
Inclusion report, also ranked Maryland as second and Delaware
35th.
as
In its key aspects of a "high functioning Medicaid program", UCP rated Pennsylvania near
the bottom, at 43, in regard to reaching those in need, 33rd in promoting independence,
28th in promoting productivity, 22 in keeping families together, and seventh in tracking
health, safety and qualify of life.
The full report is available at http://cfi.ucp.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/07/UCP_2015_CaseforInclusion_FINAL.pdf.
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The report stresses, however, that even though individuals may contact the call center for
one purpose, other interconnected needs often become apparent.
Examples given include someone inquiring about home-delivered meals also may be lacking
transportation to the grocery store, or an individual exploring housing options actually
needing to move because they are unable to afford home modifications that would allow
them to stay in their home.
A copy of the report is available at www.n4a.org/files/EldercareLocatorDataReport.pdf. The
Eldercare Locator is available at www.eldercare.gov or (800) 677-1116.
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Chester County Pops Up First in Southeastern Pennsylvania for West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus (WNV) season has started, with the Chester County Health Department
recording its first2015 positive mosquito sample for WNV in Phoenixville Borough, the most
recent reporting for four Pennsylvania counties.
The total number varies annually, depending on weather. Last year, the county recorded 52
positives for the season, with 146 in 2012. Totals for adjoining counties last year were 148
in Delaware, 61 in Lancaster, 42 in Montgomery and 30 in Berks.
Further information on WNV and mitigation is available at
www.chesco.org/index.aspx?NID=868, with updating state-wide impact and totals for the
current and previous years at www.westnile.state.pa.us.
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Chester County continues to lead the number of cases in our reporting area, with 2,022 last
year, or 134 per 100,000 average annual rate, versus 2,395 cases the year before, or a
159.5 average annual rate.
Delaware County, in the meantime, skyrocketed from 62 cases, or a 3.7 average annual
rate in 2013, to 320 cases, a 19.1 average annual rate, last year.
Other area county rates, all showing declines between years, are:
-- Berks: 142 cases in 2013 (11.5 average annual rate) / 79 in 2014 (6.4 average annual
rate).
-- Bucks: 1,977 (105.3) / 1,400 (74.5)
-- Lancaster: 36 (2.3) / 35 (2.2)
-- Montgomery: 1,262 (52.9) / 1,052 (43.6)
-- Philadelphia: 549 (11.9) / 435 (9.4)
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and eight colleagues recently introduced the federal Lyme and TickBorne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2015 to increase public
awareness and strengthen efforts to combat tick-borne diseases. A text of the bill is at
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/download/lyme-and-tick-borne-illness-prevention-act.
A Department of Health Lyme Disease Fact Sheet is at
www.health.pa.gov/My%20Health/Diseases%20and%20Conditions/IL/Documents/Lyme%20Disease.pdf.
The 2014 County Health Profiles are available at
www.statistics.health.pa.gov/MyHealthStatistics/VitalStatistics/CountyHealthProfiles/Pages/
CountyHealthProfiles.aspx#.VXkgyUa9BP0.
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Alerts for South Central Pennsylvania counties, including Lancaster, also are available
through Everbridge at www.co.lancaster.pa.us/658/Emergency-Services.
Alert information in Berks County -- Berks Alert -- is accessible through the Cooper
Industries system at https://berks.alertpa.org/index.php?CCheck=1.
Pennsylvanias alert system -- Alert PA -- for any county, also through Cooper Industries, is
available at https://alert.pa.gov.
More comprehensive weather information for the region is available through our Facebook
page. To receive updates for this and other family-related information during the week,
"Like" our page at www.facebook.com/TransformationIni and "Get Notifications" in the
dropdown menu next to "Like" to avoid Facebook filtering posts to individual Timelines and
News Feeds based on its own algorithms.
Although we also provide alerts, Facebook should not be considered a primary alerting
source for emergency broadcasts if emergency alert systems are working.
Study Says Some Area Hospitals Among Top 50 Nationwide for Highest Uninsured
Patient Charges
A new study, reported on by Lancaster Online, says that six of seven Pennsylvania hospitals
with the highest charges nationally to uninsured patients are in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
including Crozer Chester Medical Center in Delaware County, Brandywine Hospital at
Coatesville, and Phoenixville and Pottstown Hospitals.
Five of the seven top chargers, among 50 nationally, are identified as part of the for-profit
Community Health Systems, with costs as much as 10 times over Medicare-allowable costs.
Hospital spokespersons argued that their facilities "provide significant discounts to
uninsured and underinsured patients to help cover out-of-pocket costs".
Further information on the report is available through
www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/posts/880257112039541.
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The website provides access to child support program information and case details,
including the status of their cases, making payments, viewing upcoming appointments,
requesting materials, calculating estimated child support payments, and locating local
domestic relations sections.
More than 18,000 people visit the child support website daily, according to the department,
with 67 percent using mobile devices as their primary means of accessing online content.
Further information is available at www.childsupport.state.pa.us.
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Study Says Wage Earners Are Losing Millions Weekly Due to Employer Wage Theft
A group of Temple University Law students estimate that Pennsylvania workers are losing
$19 million to $32 million in wages every workweek, or an average of 15% of what many
should be paid, due to employer wage theft.
Shortchanged: How Wage Theft Harms Pennsylvania's Workers and Economy is a report
prepared and written by the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic of students at the Stephen and
Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple University Beasley School of Law.
They estimate that over 400,000 individuals experience a minimum wage violation and over
300,000 experience overtime violations in any workweek.
Minimum wage, overtime and tip violations, illegal deductions, shorting of hours, and
delayed or missed payment of wages are among areas in which workers are shortchanged,
the report says.
It attributes the losses to employers using a variety of tactics to avoid paying their workers,
many workers being unaware of their rights or afraid of seeking wages owed, and
enforcement of wage theft being "problematic" because of insufficient governmental
oversight of employers.
Common categories of workers identified as being shortchanged, primarily in lower income
occupations, include beauty, dry cleaning and general repair; building services and grounds
workers; car wash, parking lot, and drivers; cashiers; childcare workers; cooks,
dishwashers and food preparers; factory and packaging; general construction; home health
care; retail salesperson and tellers; sewing and garment workers; stock/office clerks and
couriers; and waiters, cafeteria workers, and bartenders.
Estimates of violations in Berks and Lancaster counties, along with the Philadelphia suburbs,
including Chester, Delaware and Montgomery for each category are included in the report.
Students recommend the following actions to overcome shortchanging:
Creating stronger penalties for employers who commit wage theft;
Increasing funding to DLI for enforcement of the wage and hour laws;
Working more closely with community groups to identify enforcement priorities for
DLI; and
Strengthening enforcement with wage liens and revocation of licenses.
The report is available at www2.law.temple.edu/csj/files/wagetheft-report.pdf.
Recent actions by the federal Department of Labor in regard to wages nationally under the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as we previously reported, are available at
www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/photos/a.635705349828053.1073741828.62331760
4400161/898751336856785/?type=1.
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Developmental disabilities range from mild, such as speech and language impairments, to
serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and
autism.
Further information, including data, signs and symptoms at various ages, early intervention
and more is available in our Facebook Page report at
www.facebook.com/TransformationIni/posts/898786863519899.
Please Note: New and Updated tags refer only to the time of appearance of information
in these E-Updates. Some on-going activities may have been in existence for some time
and are being listed for awareness.
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If you know of an activity designed to have a real impact on families (this includes
individuals and youth) that we should be aware of or might be interested in reporting in
these periodic e-mail updates, please let me know, either with details or a web site link. In
order to maintain its value, this forum currently is a subjective, selective distribution so all
information submitted may not be used.
Also, if you know someone who might be helped by these periodic updates, please forward
all or selected portions as you feel appropriate. If you would like to be added to or removed
from this list, please hit reply and advise by typing "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" or
something similar in the Subject line.
Events listed are based on subject matter related to activities impacting families and is
based on information reported to us. No endorsement is made or implied.
Suggestions for improvements are encouraged. We currently are developing a more
advanced electronic communications method for this type of material that will have more
expansive yet less obtrusive characteristics. Please stay tuned.
To submit materials for publication, please refer to the guidelines that follow.
Blessings
Casey
Casey Jones
Transformation Initiative
Building Healthy Communities Through Healthy Families
(610) 707-1494 / bps461@msn.com
2009-2015 Casey Jones, Transformation Initiative for Building Healthy Communities Through Healthy Families.
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Information provided is designed to highlight activities within the broader community that can help
enhance Christian principles relative to development of healthy children, individual and family
relationships.
Recipients are encouraged to print and post this Calendar to employee and public bulletin boards
for benefit of others.
Activities included in this publication are gathered from various submissions and other sources. No
representation is made as to their accuracy or value.
Persons wishing to be included in future e-mailings of updates, should request inclusion by sending
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General Guidelines for Information Submission:
Submission up to two to three months prior to the event is encouraged to increase exposure to new
subscribers, individuals who only may read the list periodically, and for other organizations that want
to avoid scheduling opposite an event or may want to collaborate with others in the area. For annual
events, even longer lead times may be appropriate. Our deadline generally is the Friday before the
week of publication.
A general idea of the information needed (many submit too little for the consumer to understand what
actually is occurring and why they should consider attending) can be obtained by perusing the
publications or using the following guide:
Please use full names followed, if appropriate, by acronyms in parenthesis.
Name of Event:
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We generally use only free activities of a non-commercial nature or those in which a very small,
optional materials fee is charged.
Fund-raising activities generally are not published unless there is a good mixture of free
activities also available, including free admission, with a participant having the choice of
purchasing incidental items such as food or crafts.
Church events generally are published only if they are separate from normal weekly worship
services.
Due to the wide variety of activities available, decisions on publication ultimately are determined on a
case-by-case basis in context with focus of the publications.