As a teenager on the autism spectrum, Roxanne was home schooled during high school because she had been bullied in the younger grades. Because of that decision, her parents did not know that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) entitled Roxanne to services that would have helped her transition to gain work experience and a job. Then the family heard about Ability Beyond, a nonprofit that empowers people with developmental disabilities to work and live as independently as possible in communities of their choice. Continue reading.
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New Haven, Conn. (October 31, 2019) - The report Greater New Haven Community Index 2019: Understanding Well-Being, Economic Opportunity, and Change in Greater New Haven Neighborhoods was published today by DataHaven and a team of regional foundations, including The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, hospitals, government agencies, and community organizations. Widely used by public and private organizations throughout the region, the Community Index is a comprehensive, 120-page report with over 85 data graphics that describe the communities and neighborhoods that make up the Greater New Haven region, and uncover the opportunities and issues facing our area.
The Greater New Haven Community Index 2019 is available for the public to download and read at http://ctdatahaven.org/reports/greater-new-haven-community-index. It serves as an update and expansion of the Greater New Haven Community Index 2013 and 2016 reports. In 2019, DataHaven has also made similar reports available for other parts of the state. Read full press release here.
Successful Outcomes for Parents and Children
In the early 1990s, a group of Yale Law students doing legal outreach at New Haven homeless shelters were routinely meeting teenage mothers who had dropped out of high school in order to care for their babies. The young future lawyers brainstormed solutions and approached New Haven Public Schools with a proposal – help the moms stay in school by offering childcare on a school campus.
The law students enlisted the support of early childhood education experts and formed the nonprofit Student Parenting and Family Services. The school district offered the organization the use of the old metal shop at Wilbur Cross High School and The Yale School of Architecture redesigned the space pro-bono.
The result was the Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center, a high-quality early education program for children aged 6 months to three years old. Since it opened in 1994, the center has cared for and educated hundreds infants and toddlers while supporting the parents with access to health services and academic counseling. Continue reading
Lynchings formed the bloody backdrop of Southern life for a century after the Civil War. Between the 1860s and 1960s, thousands of black Americans were killed in public acts of racial terror. Millions more fled to cities in the North and West in an effort to escape this environment. Many soon discovered that, in many ways, the rest of American society was no less racist...
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/01/a-comprehensive-map-of-american-lynchings/513293/
We need more stories about the labor that sustains society, a group of scholars say.
New technologies and their inventors are often celebrated as society’s heroes. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Larry Page: These are all contemporary “innovators” whose “visionary ideas” and “creative leaps” led to “disruptive realities”—that is, if you buy the rhetoric of certain books and novelty-oriented publications (including, sometimes, your very own CityLab)...
There’s a quote that’s stuck with me for some time from Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom: "You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f***ing smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?"
American urbanists and bike advocates are smart, or at least well informed. We know how important cycling is. We are educated about cycling cities in other parts of the world and how they are so much better for health, well-being, economics, traffic, pollution, climate, equity, personal freedom, and on and on...
It’s well known that biases often creep into the hiring process, from preferring a candidate who went to a certain university to guessing someone’s interest in a role based solely on their looks. Now there’s a study that suggests job candidates are judged on their socioeconomic status within seconds after they start to speak...
https://qz.com/work/1732327/yale-study-class-bias-against-job-candidates-forms-in-seconds/
Boston Globe PERSPECTIVE | MAGAZINE
“Is she adopted?” That was the first question my brother’s math teacher asked my mom as we awaited seating at his ninth-grade graduation ceremony. I was only in fifth grade and I didn’t know what adopted meant. But I did see my mom’s frown. Her mouth twitched and I knew what was about to come wouldn’t be nice...
Navigating Main Streets as Places: A People-First Transportation Toolkit provides guidance to Main Street leaders, community advocates, local officials, transportation professionals, and everyone else in between on how to: 1) Evaluate streets and transportation through the lens of placemaking, 2) Balance the needs of mobility and other street activities, and 3) Build stronger relationships with other decision-makers and the community...
https://www.mainstreet.org/howwecanhelp/navigatingmainstreets
America’s growing geographic divide is causing experts and policy-makers to revisit one of the most fundamental policy questions: When it comes to healing distressed places, should we favor people-based policies that essentially help residents relocate to more vibrant areas, or should we favor place-based policies that focus on rebuilding the economies of distressed places and creating new and better jobs for people where they already live?
Economists have long come down on the side of people-oriented policies that essentially bring people to jobs...
New Haven boasts more than 90 tennis courts, ten swimming pools, three outdoor competition tracks, miles of trails, an extensive park system, a beach, gymnasiums, auditoriums, multiple professional stages and more. For more than two decades, Pequeñas Ligas Hispanas de New Haven has made the city’s extensive athletic and cultural resources accessible to Latino children and youth from low-income families.
Pequeñas Ligas was started in 1992 when a group of parents and concerned neighbors in Fair Haven saw a need to organize and provide constructive activities for their kids. Recognizing the abundant facilities already existing in the city, the youth and family development organization developed the concept of a “youth and family center without walls.” Continue.
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR / EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
20-25 hours per week Monday through Friday
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) seeks a highly-skilled, well-organized, assertive, enthusiastic, and creative individual to work with the Executive Director to carry out a variety of administrative duties, including office management, financial record-keeping, human resources and payroll functions, procurement, and other functions as needed. This is a dynamic role with varied responsibilities and duties. The successful candidate will have a record of successful experience in an administrative/office capacity, as well as specialized knowledge in at least one of the areas of core responsibilities below.
Mission & Background Information
DESK serves people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. We are located in downtown New Haven, just off the Green. For more information on our programs, services, history, and vision, visit us online at www.deskct.org.
Core Responsibilities – Competent in all, expert in one.
- Executive Assistance – Assists Executive Director with a variety of administrative duties.
- Financials – Works with contracted Bookkeeper and Accountant to ensure proper recordkeeping, and timely deposits of receivables and disbursements of payables.
- Development – Maintains donor database and produces monthly donor reports; compiles and distributes monthly acknowledgement letters; copy-edits external communications materials.
- Human Resources – Provides support in all areas of HR, including hiring/termination, benefits, policies, and appreciation.
- Policies & Procedures – Writes, edits, and ensures compliance with agency policies and procedures.
- Corporate Compliance – Works with Executive Director to ensure that the agency is in full compliance of all laws and regulations.
- Supplies Procurement – Oversees procurement of supplies and equipment for administrative and programmatic uses.
Required | Preferred |
· Enthusiasm for the mission · Bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant experience · 2+ year experience in office support · Excellent organizational skills · Excellent communication skills · Good social/”people” skills · Ability to multi-task · Comfort with MS Office and Google applications
| · Creative thinking and problem solving skills · Highly flexible · Operational management experience in an office setting · Expertise in Excel, Google Sheets, and Google Forms · Knowledge of web-based database platforms
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Compensation and Benefits
This is an hourly position (FLSA non-exempt), with generous paid time-off benefits and competitive compensation. Precise title and compensation will be commensurate with demonstrated skills, experience, and background. Health benefits are available for eligible employees.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should complete the online application form available at www.deskct.org/hr.
DESK is an equal opportunity employer who affirms and values greatly the role of diversity in the workplace and strongly encourages applications from people of all backgrounds and lifestyles.
As a nonprofit, it’s important to spread your message with as many people as possible to encourage awareness, support and donations. Among the many platforms you can use to reach your desired audience, a blog is one of the most effective...
GNH Community blogs can help: Post a teaser paragraph and link to you blog on GNH Community. Every wednesday we promote blog posts through social media. GNHCommunity is a free service of THe Community Foundation for Greater New Haven for Greater New Haven nonprofits.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has an ambitious dream: screen every student for childhood trauma before entering school.
"A school nurse would also get a note from a physician that says: 'Here is the care plan for this child's toxic stress. And this is how it shows up,'" said Burke Harris, who was appointed California's first surgeon general in January.
Derek Avery owns COIR Holdings with his wife Bianca. At a glance, the company might look like any other developer, but it is committed to providing middle- and low-income housing in struggling neighborhoods. And not only that: when building in a neighborhood, the company doesn’t stop at housing. It takes a holistic approach by building education resources and investing in community...
Source: https://shelterforce.org/2019/06/28/can-you-have-revitalization-without-gentrification/
New Haven — Acuity Brands, with its wraparound view of the city from its 15th-floor home at the Century Tower Building, an engineering staff that is pulling in local talent, and its workers’ appreciation of the lifestyle amenities downtown, is a marketing dream for the city...
https://ctmirror.org/2019/10/09/can-new-haven-neighborhoods-share-in-downtowns-prosperity/
If you live in New Haven and want to adopt a free tree, URI's GreenSkills team is happy to come plant one in your front curbstrip, thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven's Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees!
https://uri.yale.edu/get-involved/request-free-tree
Even with these small rain showers, it is historically dry out there and extremely important that you give your tree(s) extra water at this time. Most storms do not produce enough rain (at least one inch) to keep up with the amount of water the tree needs to survive.
A report by CT Voices for children:
https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SOWC-2019-1.pdf
Until 2012, Aimee Stephens was, in her own words, “basically leading two different lives, one for work and one for home.” At work she dressed and presented as a cisgender man. Outside of work she dressed as, and could simply be, who she was: a woman...
