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Forum #8:  "The Ready By 21 Challenge: What Must We Do to Prepare Our Children and Youth for College, Work, Life" with Dr. Karen Pittman, Executive Director, the Forum for Youth Investment and President, Impact Strategies, Inc.  Wednesday, March 29, 2006.  Dr. Pittman believes the biggest challenge is not to develop more programs or even to get more funding - but rather to make fundamental changes in the way we DO change.  Incremental approaches simply do not work.

Forum #7:  "Does It Take A Village - or Take a Family - To Raise Children Successfully in the 21st Century" with Celinda Lake. That question epitomizes the divide over cultural values in America.  Wednesday, January, 25, 2006, The Moore College of Art at 20th & The Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  Celinda will explore American attitudes about family and community, in the context of two, bestselling books, “It Takes A Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us,” by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and “It Takes A Family: Conservatism and the Common Good,” by Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Lake is president of Lake Snell Perry Associates, a research-based strategy firm in Washington, D.C.  She is one of the nation's foremost experts on electing women candidates and on framing issues to women voters. 

Forum #6: “Juvenile Injustice: A Proposal for Reform” with Charles Ogletree.  Tuesday, October 11, 2005, The Moore College of Art at 20th & The Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  Charles Ogletree is a Professor at the Harvard Law School and Author of “All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v Board of Education.” 

Forum #5:  Children & Mental Health: How Families and Communities Can Help and Heal Troubled Kids.  Wednesday, March 30, 2005, The Moore College of Art at 20th & The Benjamin Franklin Parkway.   Dr. Alvin F. Poissaint, Harvard Medical School and Author of "Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans." 

Forum #4: Peace by Piece: Protecting Our Children from Violence with Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith of the Harvard School of Public Health.  Dr. Prothrow-Stith is the author of "Murder is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America." 

Forum #3: "Citizens and Civic Action: Engaging the True Majority," with Joan Blades, Co-Founder, MoveOn.Org. 

Forum #2: "The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families are in Jeopardy and What We Can Do About It," was a presentation by Dr. Jody Heymann.  Mr. Richard Smoot, Former PNC Bank President, current chair of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Settlement Music School was also on hand as respondent.  

Forum #1: Dr. Gloria Rodriguez, author of "Reweaving the Social Tapestry Toward a Public Philosophy and Policy for Families," at the National Constitution Center.   How does Pennsylvania move from a rust-belt to rebirth?  PCCY kicked off our forum series focusing on child and family policy in Pennsylvania was a presentation by