Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – July 7, 2016
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Community Action Highlights
- CT's CAA staff attends CAPLAW conference!
- Meriden group provides opportunities for summer lunch program (Claire Dignan, Meriden Record-Journal, 6/27/16)
- 80 percent of Head Starters ready to enter kindergarten (Christopher Fortier, New Britain Herald, 6/13/16)
Check It Out – Items of Interest
- Lembo sees a few ‘bright spots’ among CT’s fiscal woes (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 7/1/16)
- Malloy holds back $130 million in spending as new fiscal year begins (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6/30/16)
- Quality of life improving for Connecticut children, but effects from recession remain (Brian Zahn, New Haven Register, 6/26/16)
- Gov. Malloy announces $4.3 million in state grants to help municipalities cut costs through regionalization of services (David Bednarz, CT.gov, 6/24/16)
- State largely stops enrolling new families for child care subsidies (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 6/24/16
- Report shows Connecticut income gap continues to grow (Meg Dalton, CT Post, 6/23/16)
- Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area and county (Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter, EPI, (6/22/16)
- In two social security reports, ways to reduce senior poverty without broad benefit cuts (Maya Macguineas, Wall Street Journal, 6/16/16)
- The debatable premise underlying Paul Ryan’s antipoverty plan (David M. Herszenhorn, NY Times, 6/14/16)
- Operation Fuel names new executive director (Han Network, Stratford Star, 6/14/16)
Community Events
TVCCA to hold Meals on Wheels crowdfunding campaign event – Now through July 12, 2016, TVCCA is accepting pre-scheduled donations for its fundraising project in the GIVE65 Event (a program of Home Instead Senior Care Foundation)...
CRT to hold all Women Golf Tourney to benefit domestic violence survivors
National Events
2016 CAPLAW Training Conference
June 22-24 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Community Action Partnership Annual Convention
August 30-September 2 in Austin, TX
2016 NASCSP Annual Training Conference
September 27-30 in Omaha, NE
Regional Events
2016 Southern New England Conference
September 15-16 in Mystic, CT
