Connecticut Association for Community Action
CAFCA Connections – November 16, 2015
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Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities: 2015 CT CAA Conference
The 2015 CT CAA Conference, Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities, was held on October 9, 2015…It was a great success, and more than 150 Community Action Agency leaders, staff, and board members attended…
CAAs now accepting energy assistance applications
It's never too early to start thinking about the upcoming winter season! Connecticut's Community Action Agencies (CAAs) are now accepting applications for the CT Energy Assistance Program (CEAP).
Community Action Highlights
- CAFCA holds OMB Super-Circular training for CAAs
- BCO: Don't cut essential funding for people in need (Op-Ed: Tom Morrow, Bristol Press, 11/11/15)
- Don't cut essential funding for Connecticut people in need (Op-Ed: Edith Pollock Karsky, CT Mirror, 11/5/15)
- Senator Chris Murphy lauded for community service (Francesca Kefalas, Norwich Bulletin, 10/15/15)
- ABCD's Family Fall Festival Celebrates 50 Years of Head Start
- TEAM celebrates 50 years
Check It Out – Items of Interest
- Malloy pitches $350M in cuts; GOP wants mix of cuts, labor savings (Keith Phaneuf, Arielle Levin Becker, Mark Pazniokas, Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 11/12/15)
- Shrinking revenue forecast shows CT’s red ink spreading fast (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 11/10/15)
- Effect of social benefit programs chronically underestimated by the public (Spencer Wells, Nonprofit Quarterly, 11/10/15)
- I've worked for five decades but still need food stamps to get by (Gladys Morris, Washington Post, 11/2)
- The safety net's powerful antipoverty impact (CBPP, Arloc Sherman, 10/27/15)
- What it's like to be poor: lessons from a poverty simulation (Heather Lockard, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, 10/27/15)
Community Events
National Events
Community Action Partnership
2016 Management and Leadership Training Conference
January 6-8, 2016 in New Orleans, LA
NASCSP
2016 Mid-Winter Training Conference
February 22-26, 2016 in Alexandria, VA
Regional Events
New England Community Action Partnership
Politics, Poverty and the Presidency: 2016 Presidential Forum
January 21-22, 2016 in Nashua, NH
