Connecticut Association for Community Action
CAFCA Connections - April 9, 2015
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Connecticut Community Action Leaders go to Washington! – Connecticut community action leaders from across the state attended the 2015 National Community Action Foundation (NCAF) Legislative Conference last month in Washington, DC. They met with Connecticut's entire federal delegation to discuss how important the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), Head Start, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), and Weatherization (WX) funding streams are to helping low and moderate income individuals and families build better lives…
Community Action Highlights
- Derby family gets help from TEAM to get back on their feet (Jean Falbo-Sosnovich, NH Register, 4/5/15)
- Secor Subaru presents TVCCA with $22,389 through "Share the Love" (TVCCA News)
- Premier Subaru Watertown presents a check for $15,606 to New Opportunities as the “HOMETOWN CHARITY” in the 2014 “SHARE THE LOVE” Campaign (PR Web, 3/30/15)
- Once again, DeStefano's 5K paves the Walk for Warmth Way (Scott Hayes, Record Journal, 3/28/15)
- Griffin Hospital Donates $5,000 to Support TEAM Diaper Bank (TEAM, 3/27/15)
- New Haven's Community Action Agency offers programs for mature adults (NH Register, 3/24/15)
- Ansonia Rod and Gun Club donates $5K to TEAM Senior Services (Valley Voice, 3/20/15)
Check It Out – Items of Interest
- The War on Poverty: Was it lost? (Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, NY Books, 4/2/15)
- Is it a gag order or the Malloy administration speaking with one voice? (Keith Phaneuf and Arielle Levin-Becker, CT Mirror, 4/7/15)
- Lawmakers struggle to replenish Gov. Malloy's human service cuts (Susan Haigh, AP-NH Register, 4/5/15)
- As legislators struggle with human services cuts, are tax hikes coming? (Arielle Levin-Becker and Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 4/2/15)
- Malloy: way too early to start talking about the rainy day fund (Christopher Keating, Courant, 4/2/15)
- Malloy: no changes expected in spending cap (Christopher Keating, Courant, 4/2/15)
- State Senate leader hears eastern Connecticut budget concerns (Claire Bessette, The Day, 4/2/15)
- Lembo: Time to fix worsening state budget deficit is now (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 4/1/15)
- Poverty linked to brain structure in children, new research shows (Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post, 3/31/15)
- House Democrats step off on long, difficult road to state budget (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 3/31/15)
- Congressional budget plans get two-thirds of cuts from programs for people with low or moderate incomes (Richard Kogan and Isaac Shapiro, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/23/15)
- This week’s Congressional leadership budget proposals: a road map to nowhere for low-income individuals and families (CLASP, 3/20/15)
- Congress fails to act on poverty (Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 3/18/15)
- Safety Net Lifted 39 Million Americans out of Poverty in 2013 (Arloc Sherman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/17/15)
Community Events
- Access Community Action Agency: Facing Poverty in our Midst: Past, Present, Future
- TEAM's 8th Men Who Cook
- 2015 Greater New Haven Walk Against Hunger
- Save the date! TEAM's 50th Anniversary Gala
National Events
Northern New England 2015 CAA Conference
May 20-22 in Manchester, VT
CAPLAW
2015 National Training Conference
June 10-12 in Portland, OR
Community Action Partnership
2015 Annual Convention
August 25-28 in San Francisco, CA
NASCSP
2015 Annual Training Conference
September 15-18 in Sacramento, CA
