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CAFCA Connections – July 6, 2017
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Connecticut Community Action Agencies in State of Limbo with Current Budget Cuts
- HRA hopes to it can find a way to keep food pantry going (Skylar Frazer, New Britain Herald, 7/1/17)
- With no state budget, HRA programs wait and worry (Skylar Frazer, New Britain Herald, 7/1/17)
2017 Southern New England Community Action Conference
October 2-3 in North Falmouth, MA - registration
Community Action Highlights
- CRT honors senior volunteers involved with the agency’s Senior Community Cafés
- HRA annual meeting dishes awards to community members (Skyler Frazer, New Britain Herald, 6/15/17)
- Volunteers spread word about summer lunch program for kids in Meriden (Lauren Takores, My Record Journal, 6/21/17)
Check It Out – Items of Interest
- DeLauro fights political winds with book making case for social safety net (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 7/2/17)
- Malloy prepares CT for life without a new state budget (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/30/17)
- Budget standoff could spread funding pain into the fall (Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant, 6/29/17)
- Malloy, unions agree on sending tentative concessions to a vote (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/26/17)
- Prolonged CT budget standoff will hurt towns, disabled, needy (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/26/17)
- Pre-K boosts future incomes, reduces risk of jail, when schools spend more (Matt Barnum, CT Mirror, 6/18/17)
- Nonprofit community says budget delay will hurt Connecticut residents (Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 6/16/17)
- Report shows well-being of CT children rising (Andrea Sears, Public News Service, 6/13/17)
- The Trump budget's massive cuts to state and local services and programs (Iris J. Lav and Michael Leachman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/13/17)
- City program guides those released from prison (Shahid Abdul-Karim, U.S. News, 6/12/17)
- Program gives city youth second chance with meaningful work (Vinny Vella, U.S. News, 6/12/17)
Community Events
CRT's Tee Off with Women to End Domestic Violence, Tuesday, July 18
NOI Pig Roast to Benefit Meals on Wheels, Sunday, August 13
TEAM Runway for Meals on Wheels, Saturday, August 26
National Events
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