A report by CT Voices for children:
https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SOWC-2019-1.pdf
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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...
Mr. Walker rode the United States’ “mobility escalator” from rural Texas to Wall Street. Now he feels “both gratitude and rage” for a country that he says has reached an inflection point...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/business/darren-walker-ford-foundation-corner-office.html
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10 characteristics of good urban/human design:
1 human scale
2 local identity
3 spatial/ historic context
4 options for/ease of mobility
5 embedded nature/ biodiversity
6 network of useable public spaces
7 mixed use
8 ability to personalise
9 resilience
10 ageless
How many of these characteristics do you see in your neighborhood, in your city?
Hartford nonprofit Harc Inc. is looking for an economic lifeline amid turbulent times for charitable giving.
After all, the Asylum Avenue-based nonprofit, which supports more than 400 people with intellectual disabilities, and other Connecticut charities understand that philanthropic giving in the state, and elsewhere, has declined or been flat in recent years...
Spanish Community of Wallingford (SCOW) is helping Latino youth step out of their comfort zones, take on community projects and develop into the next generation of leaders.
The ¡Adelante! after-school program for high school students and Pasos ¡Adelante!, for middle school students, works with about 100 adolescents annually, helping them learn to become comfortable meeting new people, speak in front of groups, collaboratively problem solve and work on projects to better their community. Read more.
We must suspend the “privilege” of complacency that nothing can be done; the privilege of empathy that makes us feel good but leads to no action; and the privilege of ignorance, especially of how deeply racism is at the heart of so much poverty...
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/community_convening/
CitySCOPE, a new podcast from Kate Cooney and her students at the Inclusive Economic Development Lab at the Yale School of Management. Where we learn about what might be possible for our city by talking with other people about theirs. In Season 1, Remaking the City: Charting the Opportunity in Opportunity Zones, we spoke with
developers, community organizers, housing experts, impact investors, foundation fund managers and
public sector officials to learn more about how Opportunity Zones might be utilized for community
benefit. Listen: https://iedl.yale.edu/cityscope-podcast
A quarter century ago, downtown Hartford was 8/5 rather than 24/7. People drove in for work or UConn games and then headed back to the suburbs. It was hard to even buy a cup of coffee on weekends.
That has changed...
In 1969, Junta for Progressive Action opened its doors to support the growing numbers of Puerto Rican families migrating to New Haven. It has been a beacon for Greater New Haven Latinos ever since.
Junta has built a strong reputation as an advocate for Latino and immigrant rights and as a place where families can meet with Spanish-speaking staff to receive help meeting their basic needs, learning English and finding a job. As it enters its sixth decade, the multi-service provider is strategically focused on how to best support an increasingly diverse population. For Executive Director Daniel Reyes, hired last year after a national search, that work involves listening to the community and building relationships with partner organizations.
“We are thinking about the whole person,” says Reyes. “This is a historic organization; I’m here to make sure that people continue to recognize this house as a beacon of hope.” Continue reading.
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.
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.
