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Resources for Staff and Students

  • NCTSN: For students impacted by this trauma, explore the resources offered by the National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network. 
  • Health Advocate: We have shared with you that Health Advocate, the new, free benefit from PFTHW offers a host of services for you and your families. Those services include helping you to access mental health resources (including trauma resources). Health Advocate is here to assist. 
  • AFT Trauma Counseling: This free AFT benefit can provide help and healing for our members, whenever needed, wherever a member may be.
  • SDP EAP (Employee
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New Resource Provides Additional Benefits for PFT Members & their Families!

To get started, you can create an account at healthadvocate.com/pfthw! [Remember to use your personal e-mail to register!]

You can also call 877.324.0255 

Or e-mail answers@healthadvocate.com

Read the full brochure right here.

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Learn More and Apply by March 1!

Qualified SLRN applicants could be selected to receive student loan relief of up to $2,500 for each year of work (beginning with 2020) for no more than 3 years, with a maximum benefit of $7,500.

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Your negotiating team pursued and won an increase in tuition reimbursement eligibility.

Eligible PFT members received communication directly from the District about how to apply for reimbursement for courses taken in 2021. Approved candidates will receive up to $600 reimbursement for credits taken in 2021.

Application, proof of payment, and accompanying official transcripts must be sent in by March 11, 2022.

Eligible members include the following:

  • Appointed Secretaries
  • School Operations Officers
  • Paraprofessionals
  • Non-Teaching Assistants
  • Teachers who need to be re-certified (only for teachers who do
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PHILADELPHIA—In a vote Tuesday evening, PFT's Executive Board voted unanimously to endorse Attorney General Josh Shapiro in his candidacy for Governor:  "The PFT's Executive Board, duly elected by the entire membership, represents more than 13,000 members of the PFT. In reviewing an endorsement request from Attorney General Shapiro, the Board unanimously voted to support his candidacy for Governor. As a body, the Board believes that Attorney General Shapiro's candidacy represents a critical inflection point not only for public education, but also for democracy as a whole.  MORE