The Philly Children’s Movement is very excited to have been selected as a founding partner in the Trauma to Triumph (TTT) initiative in 2024. In partnership with Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), TTT supports and empowers Philadelphia youth who have been impacted by race-based trauma. TTT is a five-year grant[…]
Tia Mathisen and Tara Rose Brown teamed up together in the Ark Republic piece to sound the alarm on Jay-Z’s educational plan for our city. Check us out!
PCM would like to thank the Greenfield Foundation for a generous General Operating Support grant we received earlier this year! This funding will support our workshops in schools and in the community, our Radical Little Library, and child- and family-centered activism events and campaigns. The Greenfield Foundation funds innovative programs that further the following three[…]
The ‘Talking with Young Kids about Race’ is a workshop for parents, teachers, and caregivers of young children aged 0-8 years old. This is a minds-on, participatory workshop with time to learn, share, and discuss strategies and opportunities for talking with young children about race. Facilitators will share resources on both adult racial identity development[…]
Radical Morning Meeting PCM has been busy this winter! Working with Partners In School Innovation, we are deep into our partnership with four elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The photo above is part of our Radical Morning Meeting coaching work in first grade at the Alexander Adaire Elementary School, where PCM coach[…]
After a season of: filling our Radical Little Library with summer reads that offered readers windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors (Rudine Simms-Bishop), working with families to disrupt book bans, and joyfully resisting and dancing away hate in Philadelphia, PCM has spent the fall supporting schools, families, and partner organizations across the city. Here’s a[…]
“It’s so, so important to see other people like you in books. It’s so important to see pictures and stories about people who you can say ‘hey, I’m like them, that’s awesome! They’re cool, I’m cool, this is amazing,’” Oona, a fiery tween, told the crowd of close to 200 people, as they stood up[…]
PCM has been busy the past two months working in solidarity with a whole host of amazing Philly-based activist organizations to fight Moms for Liberty and their impending “Joyful Warriors” summit. We’ve partnered with old and new friends from ACT-UP, BAR-WE, Philly Family Pride, COLAGE, Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Zinn Education Project, Black Lives Matter at[…]
We would like to thank the RESIST grant-making panel for supporting our work again this year! Your theory of change and continued support of grassroots racial and social organizing is so very important us at PCM and to the communities we serve. We are honored to be recognized alongside so many other wonderful collectives and[…]
What’s going on? Maya Angelou. Stan Berenstain. Judy Blume. John Green. Children’s and young adult books by these beloved authors are just a handful of the 1,648 titles banned from schools last year with claims ranging from pornography to making white kids uncomfortable. These are far from arbitrary or isolated incidents– the image of a[…]