{"id":110567,"date":"2023-05-17T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/?p=110567"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:33:24","slug":"dhs-education-support-center-esc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/dhs-education-support-center-esc\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Education Support Center (ESC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0Works with the School District to prevent disruptions to a child&#8217;s education when they are placed in DHS care<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0 ESC liaisons can help with academic problems, attendance\/truancy, transportation to\/from school, support for children with special education needs. Call (215) 683-4001 or OCFCommunications@phila.gov<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dhsconnect.phila.gov\/pfds2\/esc-public\/consult\">https:\/\/dhsconnect.phila.gov\/pfds2\/esc-public\/consult<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone can make the referral, but permission to evaluate must come from the education decision maker (biological parent, another EDM, etc., not the foster\/resource parent). If there are delays in psycho-educational testing after the permission to evaluate has happened, it can be helpful to contact ELC \u00a7 ELC Education Rights Helpline: 215-238-6970,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@elc-pa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@elc-pa.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0Works with the School District to prevent disruptions to a child&#8217;s education when they are placed in DHS care &#8211;\u00a0 ESC liaisons can help with academic problems, attendance\/truancy, transportation to\/from school, support for children with special education needs. Call (215) 683-4001 or OCFCommunications@phila.gov https:\/\/dhsconnect.phila.gov\/pfds2\/esc-public\/consult Anyone can make the referral, but permission to evaluate must come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,61,164,66,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-abuse","category-education-resources","category-fosterkinship-care-programs","category-miscellaneous-education-resources","category-parenting-foster-care-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111430,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110567\/revisions\/111430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/philadelphia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}