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From the New Haven Independent:
High-schoolers will now be able to take real college courses right inside their high schools.
That’s the result of a new partnership between New Haven Public Schools and Southern Connecticut University that was inked on Thursday morning inside Hillhouse High...
CLPHA’s Education Working Group hosted a webinar this week on“Growing Support for Out-of-School-Time at Your PHA,” which featured strategies for engaging in advocacy efforts to build support for housing and afterschool programs at the local and state level. Representatives from Partnership for...
Education Dive Magazine took an in-depth look at the innovative partnership between the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) and Tacoma Public Schools (TPS). The program offers housing assistance to low-income families in order to enable children to stay in their same schools from year to year,...
Recent research by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago shows that 1.1 million children have a young parent who experienced homelessness in the past year. Given that nearly half of all homeless women between the ages of 18-25 were pregnant or parenting over the same period, robust two-...
Two new housing bills impacting PHAs were recently introduced. The Ending Homelessness Act of 2019 (H.R. 1856), introduced by Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Housing Financial Services Committee, would appropriate $13.27 billion in mandatory emergency relief funding over five...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute recently released their 2019 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Report, which illustrates the health impact of a wide range of factors heavily influenced by where people live including health behaviors...
What: Free Webinar, Growing Support for Out-of-School Time at Your PHA
Who: CLPHA Education Working Group and the Partnership for Children and Youth
When: Tues. 4/9, 2:00-3:00 PM ET
Register: Click here to register
Advocacy is everyone's job and it is essential to the children and communities...
From the Star Tribune:
Minneapolis is launching its most aggressive effort yet to help homeless students succeed in school at a time when homelessness in Minnesota is at a record high.
The new Stable Homes, Stable Schools pilot program, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation,...
From the Vancouver Business Journal:
Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle and the city of Vancouver have been selected to participate in a national problem-solving session on affordable housing and health. “The Mayors’ Institute on Affordable Housing and Health: Advancing City-Level...
CLPHA is pleased to announce that David A. Williams of Opportunity Insights will be a distinguished speaker at our fifth annual Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., May 16-17.
Williams will present on Day One of the conference, sharing promising insights from new research on the...