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4.11.19
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...
4.11.19
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...
4.11.19 Members Making News, Innovations
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,...
4.10.19
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-...
4.5.19
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...
3.29.19 Members Making News
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,...
3.7.19
CLPHA’s Education Working Group is hosting a roundtable-style conference call to discuss last month’s webinar, Addressing School Attendance with PHAs, which featured representatives from the King County Housing Authority (KCHA) and the national non-profit Attendance Works who presented on tools for...
2.22.19
Last week, CLPHA’s Education Working Group hosted a webinar for 50 attendees featuring representatives from the King County Housing Authority (KCHA) and the national non-profit Attendance Works. Cara Ianni and Ted Dezember discussed their efforts to help educate KCHA residents on...
2.7.19 Members Making News
Fresno news station KSEE24 ran a story about the Fresno Housing Authority’s (FHA) positive impact on the education and school performance of their child residents. Through a data-sharing agreement with the Fresno Unified School District as well as the creation of computer labs, a library, and...
2.7.19 Members Making News
Three District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) communities now have Little Free Libraries, small wooden boxes containing books for neighbors to borrow as well as space to donate books to their community. Amerigroup built the DCHA Little Free Libraries and filled them with books, and nonprofit...

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