Vietnam Vets STRIVE for Success
by | Feb 2, 2009 10:20 am | Comments (0)
The graduates were all close to what used to be considered retirement age — but they have a lot of living and working left in them.
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CAA Gears Up For Census Season
by | Feb 1, 2009 2:42 pm | Comments (0)
With the 2010 Census drawing near, the Community Action Agency has started training New Haveners to get involved. Sandra McKinnie (pictured) sent in the following report:
100 Head-Counters Look For Homeless
by | Jan 29, 2009 8:47 am | Comments (1)
Nobody was home at this makeshift chicken wire-and-plywood shelter as volunteers came upon an encampment by the interstates Wednesday night.
“Deadliest Disease” Screened
by | Jan 23, 2009 9:03 am | Comments (0)
After debuting her documentary on racism in health care, Crystal Emery said he work’s not done. Now comes “the hard part,” she said.
Kenny Switches Sides
by | Jan 16, 2009 8:47 am | Comments (1)
Kenny has a strategy for facing the coldest nights: remembering to change sides in the box he sleeps in.
Homeless Groups, City Vie For Armory
by | Jan 14, 2009 2:31 pm | Comments (19)
When Fred Morrison looked at the open space at the Army’s seven-acre site, he envisioned a new complex of supportive and affordable housing.
Hopkins Students Raise $74K For Food Bank
by | Jan 12, 2009 4:54 pm | Comments (1)
Hopkins students raised $74,573.79, and awareness, for the Connecticut Food Bank in front of Atticus Bookstore on Chapel Street. The school sent the following report:
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“Two-Generation” Approach Pitched
by | Dec 15, 2008 8:52 am | Comments (0)
It’s their “theory of change” — kids do better in strong families in strong communities.
Hear, Here
by | Dec 12, 2008 8:35 am | Comments (3)
Mabel Carroll, a longtime board member of Hill Health Center — and also a patient — told the center’s new ear, nose and throat specialist that she will be seeing him soon. She’s one of many patients who will benefit from the health center’s newest specialty clinic.
She’s On The Asthma Beat
by | Dec 9, 2008 3:22 pm | Comments (3)
With asthma rates climbing in the state’s cities, New Haven has an “army of one” hitting the streets — with cleaning supplies, advice, and some observations about who’s best prepared to protect their children.
Tent City, Redux
by | Nov 21, 2008 7:51 am | Comments (3)
(Updated) Ten years ago Loretta Lynn Pickens and other homeless people and their advocates pitched tents on the Green to protest against the city. They returned Thursday night — only this time they worked alongside City Hall, which called them together.
“Youth Map” On The Way
by | Nov 20, 2008 9:12 am | Comments (0)
Come February, New Haven parents will be a click away from finding out where to take the kids.
Families Gather For Harvest Fest
by | Nov 12, 2008 8:03 am | Comments (0)
Sandra McKinnie, Coordinator of Financial Asset Development Department at the Community Action Agency of New Haven, hosted a Harvest Fest Celebration on Thursday, October 30, 2008. She sent in the following write-up and photos:
Rell’s Medicaid Cut: No Hablan Espanol?
by | Nov 6, 2008 1:39 pm | Comments (12)
Luis Perez wanted to tell his doctor about his heart problem. His medication was making him feel worse, not better. Unfortunately, the doctor spoke just a little Spanish.
At 10, Healthy Start Re-Starts
by | Oct 31, 2008 8:25 am | Comments (1)
A group that lowered the city’s formerly sky-high infant mortality rate celebrated ten years of accomplishments — and resolved that it has much more work to do.
Latino Philanthropy Gains
by | Oct 29, 2008 8:22 am | Comments (1)
New Haven and Hartford put their heads together in a quest to “reinvent Latino philanthropy” in Connecticut and continue to help grassroots community helpers like Luz Gonzales (second from right in photo).
Community Photogs Eye Diabetes
by | Oct 27, 2008 9:23 am | Comments (3)
When Cynthia Alford pointed her camera at a shuttered roller-skating rink, she saw one ally of a “silent killer” that has stalked her for 30 years and endangers the kids from her church.
A Haircut, A Sweater—& Help With The Job Search
by | Oct 26, 2008 6:42 pm | Comments (1)
Carmella Stankiewicz is homeless and needs, in addition to housing, a mammogram, flu shot, social security assistance, and help expunging from her record an old misdemeanor that’s getting in the way of her applying for work. Oh, and a haircut to be more presentable to find work would be helpful, too.
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Sound of Hope Event Protests Domestic Violence
by | Oct 6, 2008 11:51 am | Comments (2)
By Josiah Brown
At the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Sound of Hope event is held each October by Domestic Violence Services of Greater New Haven to remember all those who lost their lives to this problem statewide over the prior year, as well as others harmed by its reach. The occasion aims to raise public consciousness about domestic abuse and to galvanize support for public, private, and nonprofit measures to halt this sadly common injustice. Concerned citizens gather by the harbor of Long Island Sound to hear the names of those who died and to cast flowers into the water in their memory, as solemn bagpipe music honors them and the cause of ensuring that their deaths help drive corrective action.
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Fore! College
by | Oct 6, 2008 2:15 am | Comments (0)
The wind was up. Maybe, Ron Peoples said, laughing, that’ll help him drive the ball further.
Week Of Caring, Day 1
by | Sep 15, 2008 3:29 pm | Comments (1)
A week-long “Days of Caring” got underway Monday as volunteers prepared over 2,500 picture books to be delivered to New Haven pre-school classes.
8 Kids Sent To Camp, Not Court
by | Aug 26, 2008 3:10 pm | Comments (4)
Eight city teens who would normally have ended up before a judge for getting into minor trouble with the law ended up in the woods instead, learning leadership skills from community leaders rather than outlaw skills from felons.
New Boys’ Center Opens in the Hill
by | Aug 12, 2008 8:27 am | Comments (1)
Brandon Caprio was headed in the wrong direction. The 15-year old was cutting school and having problems at home. Then a two-week stay at a new program in the Hill proved to be “the turning point in my life.”
26 Pizzas & Counting
by | Aug 7, 2008 12:09 pm | Comments (16)
Independent readers had an idea, and City Hall responded. Now the call goes out: send pies, and names of teens who’re making New Haven better.
Unlike Quinell, Norman Was Reached
by | Jul 31, 2008 8:06 am | Comments (22)
A year ago Norman Boone was spending his time on the streets “beefin’” — stirring up fights with kids who wandered into his Dixwell/ “Tribe” territory. Today, he’s learning painting in a job training program, is enrolled in adult ed for his GED, and, to use his phrase, “I’m on the right road and am going to keep going.”