Children First (formerly PCCY)
Inella Ray serves as the Director of Parent Advocacy & Engagement at Children First since October 2021, and as the High Volume Markets Coordinator for Teach For America since July 2018. Previously, Inella held roles such as Director of School Operations and After-School Program Director at KIPP New Jersey, and Program Coordinator for High School Programs at the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation. Inella's earlier experience includes positions at PGIM, the United States Attorney's Office, TRIO's Upward Bound Program, the Fox School of Business at Temple University, the City of Philadelphia, and the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Inella is pursuing a Master's of Education in Educational Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education, having previously obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from Temple 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