October 2017 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – October 20, 2017
See newsletter for full article on each of these stories

The 2017 Southern New England Conference, Achieving Excellence in Challenging Times, was held October 2-3...Nearly 150 Community Action leaders, staff, and board members from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the northern New England states attended...

The event featured keynote speakers David Bradley, Executive Director of the National Community Action Foundation; Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning journalist and best-selling author; and, Dr. Lenette Azzi-Lessing, Wheelock College School of Social Work, Leadership, and Youth Advocacy – see newsletter for information about the important work of the keynote speakers.

• Donations to keep Osgood food pantry open through December of 2018 (Skyler Frazer, New Britain Herald, 10/3/17)
• TVCCA's Retired & Senior Volunteer Program seeks helpers for Santa's winter boot drive

• Budget plan would ax car tax, require teachers to pay more for pensions (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 10/19/17)
• Legislators announce tentative, bipartisan budget deal (Keith Phaneuf, Mark Paznoikas, and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 10/18/17)
• Malloy counters with 'lean, no-frills, no-nonsense' budget (Keith Phaneuf, Mark Pazniokas and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 10/16/17)
• Out of balance: subsidized housing, segregation and opportunity in Connecticut (Erin Boggs, Esq. and Lisa Dabrowski, Esq., Open Communities Alliance, September, 2017)
• In rural areas, access to health services increasingly challenging (Jodie Mozder Gil, Hartford Courant, 10/9/17)
• Child poverty persists in Connecticut (Andrea Sears, Public News Service, 9/20/17)
• CT income up, poverty down (Matt Pilon, Hartford Business, 9/19/17)