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Youth Villages is one of the nonprofits highlighted in this year’s annual giving guide released on Monday by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. The center, which researches and promotes charities that offer the most effective social good in specific areas, says one in eight people ages 16 to 24, or 4.9 million nationally, are considered disconnected, meaning that they don’t have a job and are not in high school or college. The rate is considerably higher in rural areas than urban ones. While these numbers have dropped since the depth of the Great...
Topics: Foster care, Homelessness, Housing, Workforce development, Youth
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Nov 7, 2017 0
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In Tacoma, Washington, and other U.S. cities, housing departments are collaborating with school districts to give low-income and homeless students a leg up.
Topics: CLPHA, Education, Housing, Pacific Northwest, Partnerships, Place-based, Stability
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Sep 7, 2017 0
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Children may love the carefree days of summer, but many parents and educators often worry about the summer break from school. Why? Because, according to the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and the National Summer Learning Association, students from low-income families lose an average of more than two months in reading achievement during the summer. This serious loss of previously learned skills is called the “summer slide.” What can be done to help maintain academic achievement over the summer for all children?
Topics: Education
Shared by Rebecca Friendly
on Aug 16, 2017 0
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The doctor’s office is moving into the kitchen.
After years of telling patients to skip junk food and prepare homemade meals, a growing number of doctors and medical groups are now going a step further and teaching them how to cook. Some are building teaching kitchens or creating food pantries right next to their practices. Others are prescribing culinary education programs in hopes of improving their patients’ nutrition and overall health. Some medical schools have even introduced culinary curriculums to train more doctors to talk to patients about food.
Topics: Health, Nutrition
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Aug 11, 2017 0
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Financial Incentive Offered to Multifamily Borrowers Incorporating Healthy Design Features in Affordable Housing
Topics: Health, Healthy homes
Shared by Steve Lucas
on May 25, 2017 0
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Topics: Education, Housing, Low-income, Post-secondary, Racial inequalities, South, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Apr 27, 2017 0
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Dr. Ben Carson becomes HUD Secretary with 58 to 41 vote in the Senate
Topics: Affordable Care Act, Funding, Health, Housing, Legislation & Policy
Shared by Steve Lucas
on Mar 2, 2017 0
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A reading program designed to help men become better fathers is associated with better parenting skills as well as behavior and learning improvements in kids, a small study suggests.
Topics: Early childhood, East Coast, Education, Family engagement, Literacy, School-readiness
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Feb 6, 2017 0
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Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes.
Topics: Housing
Shared by CLPHA Admin
on Jan 5, 2017