Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – June 3, 2020
Community Action Highlights
- Getting the help you need, with compassion (Deb Polun, CT ViewPoints, CT Mirror, 5/21/20)
- Child Care providers struggle to stay afloat as parents contemplate safety (Christine Stuart, CT NewsJunkie, 5/26/20)
- Hartford community, volunteers help Meals on Wheels serve food to home-bound seniors amid pandemic (Samaia Hernandez, WTNH, 5/26/20)
News Items of Interest
- CT residents can now use SNAP benefits to order groceries online (Noelle Gardner, WTNH, 6/2/20)
- New analysis: pandemic unemployment hit minorities, young workers hardest (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/1/20)
- CT distributing pandemic food aid for children to some, but not yet all, eligible households (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 5/28/20)
- Federal Bank predicts a CT surge of pandemic-induced missed rent and mortgage payments (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror via HBJ, 5/27/20)
- Connecticut could lose 45,000 child care spaces after virus (Susan Haigh, Bristol Press, 5/26/20)
- Frustration growing in minority communities over government's response to pandemic (Jaqueline Rabe Thomas and Gregory B. Hladky, CT Mirror, 5/12/20)
Community Events
TEAM's 13th Annual Men Who Cook Fundraiser, September 26
National & Regional Events
See newsletter for listings
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