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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
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Parent Raquel Sanchez checks out the headlines during PLTI media literacy lesson.
Raquel Sanchez paged through recent issues of the New Haven Register and La Voz Hispana, on the lookout for opinion essays and articles about families — as part of a class teaching parents about the importance of media literacy for themselves, their kids, and others.
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Students tell Ranger Harry the stories of their tracks.
Tree hollows, a raccoon track, and red-tailed hawk scat were all found by young New Haveners with the help of Ranger Harry as they practiced their tracking skills in Edgewood Park while on spring break.
by | Apr 17, 2024 11:37 am | Comments (3)
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Brandon Haynes and Javon Culbreath on a mission: groceries first, then basketball.
Sixth- and seventh-graders Javon Culbreath and Brandon Haynes headed to The Shack to kick off their spring break playing basketball in the sun — and wound up grabbing some free groceries to take home, too.
by | Apr 11, 2024 11:04 am | Comments (0)
CCA's Charmain Yun at WNHH FM.
Charmain Yun wondered where life would take her next. A voice came to her with the answer.
“I heard something in my heart,” Yun recalled. “The phrase was, ‘Do what’s in front of you.’ At the time what was in front of me were the kids on my stoop.”
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by | Apr 1, 2024 9:11 am | Comments (1)
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New Haven Links' inaugural cohort for winter session of Tea Time With Teens.
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The inaugural cohort of the New Haven Links’ “Tea Time with Teens” celebrated its first five middle school graduates.
by | Mar 28, 2024 12:56 pm | Comments (7)
Charmain Yun.
One of the city’s leading anti-poverty organizations has tapped a familiar face to usher in its next chapter.
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Sean Allen: Kids "expected to be like adults at 14.”
When the state made public buses free during the pandemic, it was a lifeline for Sean Tomany’s high school students. They could get to school earlier, stay later, participate in extracurriculars, and meet one-on-one with teachers.
The free buses went away, as did the opportunities that so many of his students could access for a short while, helping make sure they did not join the one in five kids in Connecticut who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.
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by | Mar 25, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (11)
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Mt. Calvary Revival Center on Legion Avenue.
Jesus Christ and pre‑K kids will each get a “sliver” of city land — if the sale of two odd-cut, publicly-owned properties next to an adjacent Pentecostal church with plans for a daycare wins final approval.
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by | Feb 20, 2024 1:27 pm | Comments (2)
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Monday's financial literacy workshop at The Shack with Chanelle Goldson.
Make your money work for you. Don’t work harder, work smarter. You can’t out-invest bad spending habits.
by | Dec 20, 2023 5:24 pm | Comments (37)
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Shelter staff and helpers Danielle Robertson, Deshaya George, and John Labieniec.
There’s room at the former Days Inn on Foxon Boulevard this holiday season.
by | Dec 5, 2023 1:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Orchard St. shelter client Tony Briggs: "Whether it's mats, pads, or the floor, it's better than freezing your ass off."
Career student Aleika Pizarro: The new shelter is "actually a good thing."
Just before sunrise, Tony Briggs stepped out of the city’s newest overnight “warming center” at a former school on Orchard Street — roughly half an hour before Career High School senior Aleika Pizarro arrived early for classes right across the street.
Briggs left the shelter grateful for a warm place to spend a cold New Haven night. Pizarro arrived at school with compassion and understanding that all city dwellers deserve a safe place to lay their heads.
Continue reading ‘On Orchard, Shelter Night Ends, Then School Day Begins’
by | Nov 28, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (9)
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Grubbs: After 35 years, it was time.
The Rev. Bonita Grubbs has more big plans for Christian Community Action, the anti-poverty agency she runs.
She concluded that it’s time for someone else to put them into practice.
Continue reading ‘Anti-Poverty Champion Bonita Grubbs Retires’
by | Nov 21, 2023 2:49 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor Elicker (at podium) and regional health leaders on Tuesday.
Roughly $10 million in federal aid will flow to the New Haven area over the next five years to help municipal health departments take a regional approach in combating the opioid epidemic through the hiring of 10 case-management “navigators” and the cross-town sharing of overdose data.
This aid comes as the number of overdose deaths in 2022 reached 490 in New Haven county, including 128 in the city itself.
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by | Nov 21, 2023 11:01 am | Comments (6)
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F.A.M.E. Middle Schoolers from dance Cumbia with their senior citizen counterparts in Fair Haven.
Fair Haven school kids filed into the Atwater Senior Center to keep their senior counterparts company in advance of Thanksgiving — and to dance cumbia with New Haveners like 73-year-old Yvonne Sheppard, who said the celebration was less a loneliness intervention than it was a special occasion among a vibrant city full of friends.
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by | Nov 21, 2023 8:49 am | Comments (2)
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Orsella Hughes, Ginne-Rae Clay, Fixing Fathers Inc. Founder Dr. David Asbery, and Larry Conaway.
In a music- and dance-filled celebration, the Prosperity Foundation distributed $900,000 in grant funds to 25 mostly Black-led organizations.
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by | Nov 20, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (19)
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Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton: Bracing for “silver tsunami of people experiencing homelessness.”
A leading provider of local homelessness services is tearing down its one-story office space — and building 80 bedrooms in its place in order to better accommodate a changing landscape of unhoused New Haveners.
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by | Nov 20, 2023 12:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Will Ginsberg.
Will Ginsberg will retire in November 2024 from his longtime post as president and chief executive officer of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, marking the end of what will be 24 years of serving as the leader of the local philanthropic organization.
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by | Nov 16, 2023 8:28 am | Comments (11)
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Jacqueline James-Boyd at Newhallville meetup: Cannabis cash meant to address "all the issues we have in Black and Brown communities.”
Millions of dollars in cannabis-legalization money are slated to trickle back into New Haven’s neighborhoods most negatively impacted by the War on Drugs — and residents are responding with programmatic pitches to put those funds towards community revitalization, from serving the homeless hot meals to mentoring Black billionaires in the making.
Continue reading ‘Neighborhood Q: How To Spend State Cannabis Cash?’
by | Nov 13, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (8)
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Eliza Halsey at Thursday's Board of Alders meeting.
The Board of Alders officially approved local charter school founder Eliza Halsey to lead the city’s social services department — while passing new mechanisms to enforce elevator maintenance and salons’ health code compliance.
Continue reading ‘Halsey Confirmed As New Social Services Chief’
by | Nov 10, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (16)
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Mt. Calvary Deliverance Tabernacle Pastor Robert Smith (right), with Youth Continuum's Tim Maguire: "The community is hurting."
A local homelessness services nonprofit is looking to open the city’s first warming shelter exclusively for young adults — but is still searching for a location after scrapping a Newhallville church partnership in the face of community opposition.
Continue reading ‘Youth Shelter Planned, But Not For Hazel St.’
by | Nov 3, 2023 2:31 pm | Comments (1)
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Toni Thorpe, Royce Hatfield, Richard Cowes, Sara Gonzalez, Latoya Armstrong, and Stephanie Paris-Cooper.
Every day last spring, Latoya Armstrong dropped her daughter off for camp at the Q House.
One day in April, on her way out she scanned a flyer QR code to learn about the programs at the Dixwell community center and found a perfect fit for herself: GED classes by the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center.
by | Oct 25, 2023 12:50 pm | Comments (4)
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At Georgia Goldburn's Hope Child Development Center in October 2022.
More early childcare providers, higher wages for those teaching the city’s toddlers, and better help for parents struggling to find the right daycare or pre‑K for their kids.
Those are some changes that could happen here in New Haven, now that the city has committed $3.5 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to help its struggling childcare system — so long as providers come through with proposals about how to spend the money.
by | Oct 24, 2023 1:32 pm | Comments (2)
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Community Services Administrator nominee Eliza Halsey, at City Hall Monday.
The founder and long-time executive director of a Blake Street public charter school is one big step closer to becoming the city’s next head of social services, after winning a vote of support from a key aldermanic committee.
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by | Sep 18, 2023 4:22 pm | Comments (13)
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Pride Center Executive Director Juancarlos Soto (center): "Come party with us!"
Drag performances, banned books, rainbow flags and more will be on display across New Haven this week — as the city kicks off its annual pride festival.
