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Pennsylvania Moms to Deliver Giant Thank You to Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto for His Dedication to Children’s Health

December 8, 2014
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Members of MomsRising.org – the online and on-the-ground organization for moms and everyone who has a mom – will present a gigantic "thank you" card, signed by hundreds of moms from around Pittsburgh, to Mayor William Peduto’s office to thank him for his dedication to children’s health:
 
9:30am -11:30am, Tuesday, December 9
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh 
(Large Party Room)
10 Children’s Way
Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
 
Peduto is leading Pittsburgh’s launch of the Healthy Together campaign, which will enroll eligible children and families into Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). More than 8,000 children in Allegheny County alone are uninsured. The enrollment program, funded by the National League of Cities, is focused on approximately 2,000 uninsured children living in the city of Pittsburgh.
 
Local MomsRising members and their children will be on hand during the delivery, as well as experts on CHIP and children’s health, and representatives from the Mayor's office. The children will be creating “super-healthy super kids” capes during their time at the museum.
 
MEDIA NOTE: Media are welcome to attend the event and interview participants. For more information or to schedule interviews, please contact Gretchen Wright or Kim Hayes, (202) 371-1999.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.