September 2017 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – September 7, 2017
See newsletter for full article on each of these stories

October 2-3 in North Falmouth, MA – registration
Conference tracks: ROMA Next Generation, Board Governance, Organizational Standards, CAA Best Practices & Applications, and Management & Leadership Development

• CAA leaders attend Community Action Partnership Convention!
• A new home and expanded Hours for TVCCA's Retired & Senior Volunteer Program Veterans Coffeehouse; Agency thanks volunteers

• Malloy offers compromises on town aid, teacher's pensions (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 9/7/17)
• 'That was our great hope': DACA recipients worry about future, dreams (Kathleen Megan, Hartford Courant, 9/6/17)
• Malloy offers big compromise to end CT budget gridlock (Keith M. Phaneuf and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 9/5/17)
• No CT budget deal yet as another target date nears (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 9/5/17)
• Congress has a crucial to-do list in September: Here's what lawmakers must accomplish (Erin Kelly, USA Today, 9/5/17)
• Care4Kids enrollment down 7,500 since closing to new families (Jake Kara, CT Mirror, 9/4/17)
• Connecticut alternative schools, students in poverty have high levels of school absence (Brian Zahn, New Haven Register, 9/1/17)
• Malloy sees no quick resolution as budget stalemate continues (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 8/30/17)
• Congress under deadline pressure to renew health plan for 17,000 CT children (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 8/29/17)
• CT's recession lasted much longer than you think (Fred Carstensen, Hartford Business, 8/7/17