Report
May 2, 2019
Innovative public housing authorities (PHAs) are collaborating with college access partners and community colleges to increase postsecondary educational achievement for low-income residents and college students experiencing homelessness. This report elevates 11 shared learnings from a recent convening of these five pioneering PHAs and their postsecondary collaborators, and offers a series of recommendations to policy makers, PHAs, and philanthropic organizations seeking to develop emerging cross-sector collaborations between housing and education organizations. The report also includes an overview of the federal policies that support and limit postsecondary achievement for students served by PHAs, and profiles of the five partnerships: CHA and partners City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees; CMHA and partner Columbus State Community College; HACLA and partner Southern California College Access Network (SoCal CAN); LMHA and partner Family Scholar House; and THA and partner Tacoma Community College.
Author/Publisher Abra Lyons-Warren for CLPHA
CLPHA, Education, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Partnerships, Post-secondary, Stability
Abra Lyons-Warren for CLPHA
Innovative public housing authorities (PHAs) are collaborating with college access partners and community colleges to increase postsecondary educational achievement for low-income residents and college students experiencing homelessness.
Policy Brief
Sep 1, 2019
Educators are tasked with preparing students for current and emerging careers, as well as for jobs that aren’t available yet. Although schools and districts help to develop students’ academic, technical, and employability skills needed to access career paths, they recognize that such skills may be best acquired in workplace settings or simulations.
Out-of-school time is an opportunity for students to connect with job skills and expand career readiness in authentic and engaging settings. Afterschool time can be particularly beneficial for historically underserved students who don’t have access to the same resources through their schools or family connections as their more advantaged peers.
This brief from the College & Career Readiness & Success Center at AIR looks at ways to leverage afterschool time to prepare students at at every stage of career development, from career awareness in kindergarten through sixth grade to career training in eleventh and twelfth grades. The brief offers recommendations for state leaders who are interested in using afterschool programming for career readiness.
Author/Publisher Marjorie Cohen, Susan Therriault, Jenny Scala, Rebecca Levinson and Betsy Brand for AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH
Education, Out-of-school time, Post-secondary, Youth
Marjorie Cohen, Susan Therriault, Jenny Scala, Rebecca Levinson and Betsy Brand for AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH
Educators are tasked with preparing students for current and emerging careers, as well as for jobs that aren’t available yet.
News Article
Jul 9, 2018
Neighborhood may matter more than race in breast cancer survival rates
Author/Publisher Darcel Rockett for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Health, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Medicaid / Medicare, Midwest, Racial inequalities
Darcel Rockett for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Neighborhood may matter more than race in breast cancer survival rates
News Article
Nov 6, 2017
Youth Villages is one of the nonprofits highlighted in this year’s annual giving guide released on Monday by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. The center, which researches and promotes charities that offer the most effective social good in specific areas, says one in eight people ages 16 to 24, or 4.9 million nationally, are considered disconnected, meaning that they don’t have a job and are not in high school or college. The rate is considerably higher in rural areas than urban ones. While these numbers have dropped since the depth of the Great Recession, the impact of that economic turmoil is still reverberating.
Author/Publisher Alina Tugend for THE NEW YORK TIMES
Foster care, Homelessness, Housing, Workforce development, Youth
Alina Tugend for THE NEW YORK TIMES
Youth Villages is one of the nonprofits highlighted in this year’s annual giving guide released on Monday by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania.
News Article
Sep 7, 2017
In Tacoma, Washington, and other U.S. cities, housing departments are collaborating with school districts to give low-income and homeless students a leg up.
Author/Publisher Mimi Kirk for CITY LAB
CLPHA, Education, Housing, Pacific Northwest, Partnerships, Place-based, Stability
In Tacoma, Washington, and other U.S. cities, housing departments are collaborating with school districts to give low-income and homeless students a leg up.
News Article
Aug 9, 2017
The doctor’s office is moving into the kitchen.
After years of telling patients to skip junk food and prepare homemade meals, a growing number of doctors and medical groups are now going a step further and teaching them how to cook. Some are building teaching kitchens or creating food pantries right next to their practices. Others are prescribing culinary education programs in hopes of improving their patients’ nutrition and overall health. Some medical schools have even introduced culinary curriculums to train more doctors to talk to patients about food.
Author/Publisher Donna De La Crus for the NEW YORK TIMES
Health, Nutrition
Donna De La Crus for the NEW YORK TIMES
The doctor’s office is moving into the kitchen.
After years of telling patients to skip junk food and prepare homemade meals, a growing number of doctors and medical groups are now going a step further and teaching them how to cook.
Report
Aug 8, 2017
This report aims to bridge a knowledge gap between the affordable housing and healthcare fields that limits their ability to implement health and housing projects and partnerships. These two sectors have begun to realize how much they overlap, but while great work has been done to expose practitioners in both fields to information about their shared interests and common goals, the results to date have been relatively modest.
Author/Publisher Prepared by Mercy Housing and The Low Income Investment Fund for THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT and THE KRESGE FOUNDATION
Cost effectiveness, Dual-eligibles, Health, Housing, Partnerships
Prepared by Mercy Housing and The Low Income Investment Fund for THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT and THE KRESGE FOUNDATION
This report aims to bridge a knowledge gap between the affordable housing and healthcare fields that limits their ability to implement health and housing projects and partnerships.
Policy Brief
Feb 16, 2017
Supporting parents' efforts to help their children develop during the preschool years improves a child's school readiness, reduces behavior problems, enhances social skills, and promotes academic success.
Author/Publisher Bierman K, Morris P, and Abenavoli R for THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Early childhood, Education, Family engagement, School-readiness
Bierman K, Morris P, and Abenavoli R for THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Supporting parents' efforts to help their children develop during the preschool years improves a child's school readiness, reduces behavior problems, enhances social skills, and promotes academic success.
News Article
Jan 25, 2017
A reading program designed to help men become better fathers is associated with better parenting skills as well as behavior and learning improvements in kids, a small study suggests.
Author/Publisher Lisa Rapaport for REUTERS
Early childhood, East Coast, Education, Family engagement, Literacy, School-readiness
Lisa Rapaport for REUTERS
A reading program designed to help men become better fathers is associated with better parenting skills as well as behavior and learning improvements in kids, a small study suggests.
