Children First (formerly PCCY)
David Heayn-Menendez is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in mental health communications and local governance. Currently serving as the Mental Health Campaign Senior Advisor for Communications at Children First, David also holds the position of Council President and Councilman in the Borough of Lewisburg. Previous roles include Chief Strategy and Organizing Officer at The New Pennsylvania Project, Editor in Chief of ACLAMO's bilingual news bulletin, and various senior leadership positions in advancement and public affairs. David's commitment to community service is further exemplified through board memberships with the Lewisburg Borough Shade Tree Commission and the Historic Architecture Review Board. Academically, David has earned a Doctor of Philosophy (ABD) and a Master of Philosophy in History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, as well as a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Villanova University.
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Children First (formerly PCCY)
Children First was founded over 40 years ago to help improve the lives of children by advocating on their behalf and by being a catalyst for positive change. We help to identify and educate the public about children’s needs, insisting that our children become a priority if we as a society, and they as our future, are to survive. Our goals have always been to increase the awareness of children’s needs; increase the resources for children and families; strengthen families and communities in helping children learn and grow and assure implementation of funding of public policies which promote stable children and families. While we educate and advocate on behalf of children across all issues, we undertake specific-focused efforts to improve the health of our children by maximizing access and availability of health care; improve child welfare by targeting efforts to strengthen families; improve the quality and quantity of child care programs; act earlier rather than later in developing, monitoring and disseminating information about in-home programs that work; and improve the chances for troubled and troubling adolescents by seeking out the causes and responses to truancy or delinquency by building alternative programming in communities and developing more and better after-school programs in neighborhoods