March 2018 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – March 27, 2018
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Earlier this month, Community Action leaders from across Connecticut attended the 2018 National Community Action Foundation Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.  They met with several members of Connecticut's federal delegation to discuss how essential the Community Services Block Grant, Head Start, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and Weatherization funding streams are in helping limited income individuals and families build better lives for themselves and their communities...

• McKinney shelter and community renewal team provide beacon of hope (Michael Lee-Murphy, Connecticut Magazine, 3/18/18)
• Housing authorities, HRA team up on financial literacy training (New Britain Herald, 3/7/18)
• New Opportunities to grow vegetables, herbs at aquaponic farm in Torrington (Ben Lambert, The Register Citizen, 3/1/18)

• Fiscal panel's formula for revitalizing CT provokes Democratic resistance (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 3/23/18)
• A windfall of federal aid for child care for needy families (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 3/23/18)
• This is the most dangerous time in decades to be an American living in poverty (Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, 3/20/18)
• State report: budget raid on energy funds hurting Connecticut economy (Gregory B. Hladky, Hartford Courant, 3/9/18)
• Legislature willing to listen before locking in fiscal restraints (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 3/8/18)
• How many senior are living in poverty? National and state estimates under the official and supplemental poverty measures in 2016 (Juliette Cubanski, Kendal Orgera, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman, Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/2/18)

• TEAM's 11th Annual Men Who Cook, April 21
• TVCCA's Carnevale Benefit for Meals on Wheels, April 21
• CRT's Women's Empowerment Fundraiser, May 2