Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – January 8, 2021
Community Action Highlights
- TVCCA's RSVP Winter Boot Drive received 1,100 requests for warm winter boots and, through community partnerships and donors, were able to fulfill them all!
- CRT's Virtual Giving Tree
- TEAM's Toys 4 Kids program
- Access Community Action Agency helps hundreds for the holidays (Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 12/14/20)
- VirtualCAP RoundUP: A unique Community Action Network resource - check out the December issue
News Items of Interest
- New teaching hubs aim to help working parents with students (Dominique Moody, NBC Connecticut, 1/6/21)
- An opening day like no other (Hugh McQuaid, CT News Junkie, 1/6/21)
- Renters facing eviction to get a reprieve from the state, and from the federal stimulus (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 12/21/20)
- Connecticut has mixed results on national health survey (Jessica Lerner, Journal Inquirer, 12/17/20)
- Largest increase in U.S. poverty recorded In 2020 (Tommy Beer, Forbes, 12/16/20)
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