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Dec 2, 2020 2:38 pm
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Food giveaway at Barnard last week, one of many in New Haven as hunger grows during the pandemic.
(Opinion) Imagine: You’ve just lost your job due to the pandemic, and now you don’t know how you will afford your next diaper run. Or, you can’t go to work or school, or partake in daily activities, simply because you can’t access the period or incontinence supplies you need.
Sign of the time: No longer, thanks to building sale.
Hundreds of hungry people have lost two sources of free meals — one permanently, one temporarily — as cold weather sets in, the holidays approach, and the Covid-19 pandemic resurges.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 18, 2020 12:37 pm
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A presentation slide from Tuesday’s meeting depicts the various areas of support that the drop-off center will target.
When a new drop-off center for people transitioning out of prison comes to Wooster Square in January, the program will have some friendly faces — and even a few potential new collaborators — in the neighborhood.
“There’s a lot of us that are still out here. I’ve known people who fell asleep outside and died.”
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“Before you could walk into the library and stay there. You could look for jobs. You could look for food pantries. Without a phone, without internet access, it’s very difficult for people living in tents, living outdoors.”
Sizing up the challenge ahead — and how we as a community can meet it.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 15, 2020 5:23 pm
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You can’t throw a rock in New Haven without hitting a nonprofit organization, quipped one neighbor.
Yale-New Haven Hospital services are all over the place. And there already are mobile units out there from a range of state and local mental health services.
So why does the city need for yet a new agency, however worthy, especially when government budgets are so tight?
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Rabhya Mehrotra |
Oct 15, 2020 2:07 pm
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The meeting.
Twenty-one thousand people who work in Connecticut schools are looking for help navigating the social and emotional impacts of a pandemic — and are getting a hand from a new New Haven-based effort.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 6, 2020 10:53 am
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Monday’s virtual Board of Alders meeting.
The Board of Alders voted unanimously in support of transferring $100,000 in city funds towards paying for a planning study for a new social worker-centered mobile crisis response team.
Covid killed Demelle Turner’s and Marquel Caesar’s chances of throwing touchdown passes this fall. Instead they found themselves throwing soil into garden beds — with a team devoted to preventing violence.
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Emily Hays |
Sep 16, 2020 11:46 am
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The youngest remote learners at the Boys & Girls Club hum to themselves as they seek to concentrate on their Chromebooks.
The 6‑year-olds were singing, older students were on their phones and fifth-graders were tossing a mini basketball. Amid all that, Da’quay Jeffries was able to concentrate —better than at home.
A new mobile crisis response team that would have social workers rather than cops respond to certain 911 calls won a vote of support, as committee alders unanimously endorsed transferring $100,000 in city funds towards paying for a planning study for the program.
Police, firefighters, and paramedics response to 2018 K-2 poisonings on the Green.
A lead proponent of City Hall’s planned new social work-centered mobile crisis response team kicked off his citywide tour of the proposed program with a double-edged reassurance.
The initiative will neither be a magic bullet, nor an avenue to “defund the police.”
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 11, 2020 6:59 pm
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Bonita Grubbs.
Christian Community Action, Inc. (CCA) is partnering with the Housing Authority of New Haven to renovate 660 Winchester Ave. and revive its transitional housing and training and support program for homeless New Haven families.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 2, 2020 4:53 pm
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Halloway with Elicker at Martinez School food distribution event.
It was Yvonne Halloway’s first free-food pick-up. With hard times growing harder and with supplemental unemployment benefits expiring, she and others around her didn’t expect this visit to be their last.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 23, 2020 10:18 am
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Provider Tennille Smalls: “Just keep swimming!”
As centers close in droves nationwide, New Haven childcare providers are staying alive during the Covid-19 pandemic with a mixture of grit, commitment, government assistance — and hope for a new round of federal aid.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 21, 2020 9:41 am
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Chapel Haven residents honoring the organization’s recently-expanded name, the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, in 2018.
A former employee of Chapel Haven was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday, after stealing at least $240,000 from both clients and the institution — and puncturing the school’s culture of “family” trust.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 20, 2020 11:54 am
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Selma Ward.
Before Selma N. Ward interviewed to become the new CEO of the Children’s Center of Hamden, she wrote a vision statement.
“My vision has always been to help kids build a foundation for their future success,” it read. “I don’t want to see anyone defined by their past experiences: everyone deserves guidance, support, and education.”
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 3, 2020 10:00 am
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IfeMichelle Gardin participating in Thursday evening’s forum.
What could a “village mentality” look like in New Haven?
Less white saviorism from nonprofits and college students swooping in to help, IfeMichelle Gardin posited. More community-generated programs rooted in neighbor-to-neighbor relationships.
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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Jun 30, 2020 6:34 pm
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Jose Merced at his salon: Hanging in for now.
Jose Merced watched customers disappear and the rent bills mount at La Isla Barbershop on Washington Avenue in the Hill. Now he’s hoping a pot of federal COVID-19 relief money headed toward New Haven will offer him some belated business-survival relief.
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Janet Stolfi Alfano & Joanne Samuel Goldblum |
May 14, 2020 10:16 am
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(Opinion) With Gov. Ned Lamont’s targeted reopening date of May 20 comes a host of logistical questions, including the one that dominated our lives long before COVID-19: What about diapers?
New Haven’s downtown remains quiet as neighbors practice social distancing.
Spend now. Tax the wealthy later.
Connecticut Voices for Children delivered that straightforward message Thursday during a virtual press conference at which the advocacy group released details from its latest report.
The report put forward several recommendations on how the state and federal government should respond to a coronavirus-linked recession and how to recover from it. (Read the full report here.)
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Allan Appel |
Jul 25, 2018 8:18 am
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The candidate with 97-year-old Rifkin.
After college, two of her three kids received their most attractive job offers not in Connecticut but in New York City, and so have moved there.
That’s why, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz said, she wakes up every morning of her campaign thinking about what she can do to keep young people in Connecticut.
That rang a bell with 97-year-old Sylvia Rifkin, who also has children — make that grandchildren — who likewise have moved to New York to begin their careers.
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Lucy Gellman |
Feb 2, 2016 12:54 pm
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New Haven’s Yarboro with Cohen in New Hampshire.
Milford, N.H. —Two divergent paths led Bonita Yarboro and Debra Cohen from Connecticut to a door on Boxwood Court, leaflets in hand on an idealistic quest to elect Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
