Fixing Fathers, Inc., held its annual Fishing with Dads event Aug. 31 at Beaver Pond Park, New Haven. Parents and their children were treated to a two-hour informative training session, facilitated by Doreen Abubaker and Loreen Lawrence who are certified instructors for CT Aquatic Resource Education. The families learned about various fish (brook trout, brown trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, brown bullhead, channel catfish, and the Redbreast Sunfish) that cohabitate in the pond as well as gear safety, pond ecology, casting and how to tie a clinch knot. After the training session, each child was able to put what they learned to the test. One of the highlights of the event occurred when a seasoned fisherman promised the children that he would help them catch a fish. After 15 minutes, he ended up catching two fish. A Largemouth Bass and a Brook Trout. Of course, the children informed him that he would have to put the fish back into the pond because, according to their instructors, the fish he caught were too small to keep. Fixing Fathers thanked all parents who attended the event, Dibella’s Subs in Hamden, the mettle entertainment group, and of course, the New Haven Green Fund for sponsoring the event. For more information about future events, go to fixingfathers.org.
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Excited to bring our community together on Sept 25 for a half-day Convening on Creating a Future of Opportunity Through Inclusive Growth. Learn more about the event and speakers at www.cfgnh.org/2019convening. #InclusiveGrowth #GNHOpportunity
The two following positions are available with Project Access and New Haven Healthy Start:
Community Health Worker: https://jobs.ynhhs.org/jobs/4560204-community-health-worker
Patient Navigator: https://jobs.ynhhs.org/jobs/4559085-patient-navigator
Apply directly on the Yale New Haven Health webpage for anyone interested in either position or both. Share with anyone you think would want to apply as well!
According to the psychologist Peter Gray, children today are more depressed than they were during the Great Depression and more anxious than they were at the height of the Cold War. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found that between 2009 and 2017, rates of depression rose by more than 60 percent among those ages 14 to 17, and 47 percent among those ages 12 to 13. This isn’t just a matter of increased diagnoses. The number of children and teenagers who were seen in emergency rooms with suicidal thoughts or having attempted suicide doubled between 2007 and 2015...
The home page of New Haven Legal Assistance Association (LAA) states in bold letters:
“It is illegal for someone to be treated differently because of their immigration status, national origin, or religion.”
Despite the law, attorneys at LAA see employers repeatedly fail to pay immigrant workers what they are rightfully owed, otherwise known as wage theft. Over a recent three-year grant from The Community Foundation, LAA expanded its efforts to combat this rampant problem along with other workplace abuses and fight for policy changes to help all low-wage workers. Continue reading.
In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then spent nearly 15 years studying at various universities—the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, Harvard, and finally Yale Law School—picking up a string of degrees along the way. Today, I teach at Yale Law, where my students unnervingly resemble my younger self: They are, overwhelmingly, products of professional parents and high-class universities. I pass on to them the advantages that my own teachers bestowed on me. They, and I, owe our prosperity and our caste to meritocracy...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/
Building Affordable Housing and Stabilizing Neighborhoods Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven has a long history of reversing blight and stabilizing neighborhoods as it builds and renovates homes for low-income families. Its work has focused on people with specific barriers, including veterans and people with histories of incarceration. In a recent trend, it is also providing home ownership opportunities to Greater New Haven’s newest residents.
The nonprofit has seen increasing numbers of applications coming from refugees, who now comprise 30 percent of its home ownership program. The organization attributes the increase, in part, to its strong partnership with IRIS, the New Haven-based refugee agency. While a majority of refugee applicants to Habitat are from African nations, an increasing number are from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. Continue reading.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.
When one mentions the name Bryan Stevenson in social and criminal justice spaces, it is met with reverence and respect.
Stevenson, 59, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama, has been in the trenches and at the front lines in the fight against the death penalty. He has argued five cases before the United States Supreme Court and, through EJI, has won reversals, relief or release from prison for more than 135 wrongly condemned death-row inmates, people abandoned by society at-large and left to die in cages...
https://www.essence.com/feature/bryan-stevenson-true-justice-hbo/
Are you looking for a bank account that works for you? Are you tired of surprise fees? These accounts are safe and affordable because they have no overdraft fees, no minimum balances, and a low or no monthly cost.
Flyer is attached below for info about the accounts.
The Community Action Agency of New Haven has an eight-week program called "The Father F.A.C.T.O.R." The program is aimed at strengthening families while building a network of resources for fathers.
The Father Factor, a program sponsored by New Haven Healthy Start
Rosco Shiefield Jr. is a father of 13 who loves the game of chess. Today he talks about some of the trials and tribulations of having a large family, and how he has incorporated the game of chess to help him through the hard times that life sometimes throws at you. What is so cool about this father of 13, is that his love for family is so evident and clear, and given the opportunity, he wouldn't change one damn thing. I learned so much from this man, this superhero father, and I sure that you will to.
Judicial Panel Meets with Fathering Organizations at The Community Foundation in New Haven
I would like to thank the Inner City News paper for the ad. I am meeting so many wonderful parents and kids who are interested in playing the game of chess. If you live in Hamden or New Haven and you have/know a child (ages 8 - 16) please reach out to davidasbery@fixingfathers.org for a FREE chess set.
The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.
IN THE SPRING OF 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the central coast of North Carolina. Some people said that the brothers were righteous; others thought that they had lost their minds. That March, Melvin and Licurtis stood in court and refused to leave the land that they had lived on all their lives, a portion of which had, without their knowledge or consent, been sold to developers years before. The brothers were among dozens of Reels family members who considered the land theirs, but Melvin and Licurtis had a particular stake in it. Melvin, who was 64, with loose black curls combed into a ponytail, ran a club there and lived in an apartment above it. He’d established a career shrimping in the river that bordered the land, and his sense of self was tied to the water. Licurtis, who was 53, had spent years building a house near the river’s edge, just steps from his mother’s...
Fixing Fathers and mettle entertainment group would like to thank everyone who has help to make our trip to the Malcolm Bernard HBCU College Fair a huge success. In 2016 we started out with 20 students. We had so much room on the bus that we actually wondered if it was worth it. Then in 2017 our bus was filled to capacity, and in 2018 with the help of the COMMUNITY we filled two buses. Donor%20Card%20black.jpg WOW! We are looking forward to our next trip to the Malcolm Bernard HBCU College Fare in November 2019. If you are interested in supporting this program, please reach out to Dr. David Lee Asbery. davidasbery@fixingfathers.org or you can click on the link below.
The New Haven Early Childhood Department still has openings for students in the PreKindergarten.
Requirements:
- MUST be a New Haven resident.
- MUST be 3 or 4 years old and
- Must NOT already enrolled in a PreK program OR be on the NHPS Magnet Pre-K waitlist
If you meet these criteria call 475-220-1463 for information about available free and low cost Pre-K programs.
An individual’s zip code is more predictive of her health than her genetic code, but it’s not just zip code data that can help tackle social determinants of health...
We’ve been told that facts have lost their power, that debunking lies only makes them stronger, and that the internet divides us. Don’t believe any of it...
During the summer months, children who depend on school breakfasts and lunches are at risk of going hungry. Local food policy advocates have teamed up with End Hunger Connecticut! to make sure that doesn’t happen in and around New Haven.
New Haven’s and Hamden’s Free Summer Meals Program has kicked off with more than 70 meal sites at schools, camps, churches, and mobile units throughout New Haven and Hamden offering free nutritious breakfast, lunch, and dinner to anyone 18 and under. The program runs through Aug. 16. No proof of income or ID is necessary.
Find summer meal locations here, or by calling 211 or sending a text CT meals to 877877. Read more.
