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Every infant and toddler deserves a safe, stable, and nurturing start in life. That’s why Housing Is has joined forces with Prevent Child Abuse America, SchoolHouse Connection, and ZERO TO THREE to launch Thrive From The Start—a cross-sector effort dedicated to addressing homelessness among infants, toddlers, and expectant parents. Visit thrivefromthestart.org to learn more and explore how you can be a part of the solution.
Topics: Early childhood, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Pre-natal
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on Apr 9, 2025 0
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The 2024 rate of U.S. homelessness increased by 18% over the previous year, with a 39% rise in families experiencing homelessness. According to an annual survey conducted in communities across the country, more than 770,000 people were living in shelters or outside—the largest number since the report was initiated in 2007. Our panelists will provide historical context for homelessness in the United States, as well as research findings on the effectiveness of various policy and practice approaches to decreasing homelessness and supporting unhoused families and individuals.
Cindy I-Fen Cheng,...
Topics: Homelessness, Housing
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on Mar 31, 2025 0
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Join us to hear from Licia Villalta from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) about how HACLA is advancing digital equity in underserved communities. HACLA is committed to bridging the digital divide through five key initiatives: Digital Ambassadors, Broadband Access, Computer Lab Renovations, Digital Lending Libraries, and Tech Career Pathways. This session will provide an overview of HACLA's work, sharing insights, successes, and lessons learned in expanding digital equity programs. Attendees will learn actionable steps to replicate these programs, from needs...
Topics: Broadband, Housing Is Working Group
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on Mar 12, 2025 0
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There is over $4.8 billion for afterschool and summer programs in California from state and federal funds. Less than 2% of that funding goes to high school students, even though research shows that older youth benefit greatly from these programs, improving students' mental health, academic performance, safety, and well-being. This video was produced, filmed, and edited by young people from the David's Harp Foundation, a youth arts mentorship program in San Diego.
Topics: Education, School-readiness, Youth
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on Mar 3, 2025 0
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Did you know that the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) can be used to employ high school students to teach and mentor elementary and middle school students in afterschool and summer programs? This brief highlights this internship model with examples from six school districts and community-based organizations in Central, Northern, and Southern California.
Paid internships for high school students are proving effective in addressing one of the biggest challenges facing California schools: the education workforce shortage. The programs also create a powerful ripple effect in...
Topics: Education, School-readiness
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on Mar 3, 2025 0
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Join us for this virtual Out-of-School Time Professional Learning Community convening co-sponsored with the National Summer Learning Association. This conversation is open to past members of this learning community or brand-new interested staff. Please share this invitation with colleagues as well.
Topics: Early childhood, Education
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on Feb 12, 2025 0
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A safe, stable place to live is a key ingredient for a child’s healthy physical, emotional and cognitive development. Research shows children’s well-being is intricately connected to their home environments. However, many families across the United States face housing instability, which poses significant risks to children and their families according to a study published in 2024. Housing instability encompasses a range of issues, including difficulties paying rent or a mortgage, overcrowding, frequent relocations, eviction and homelessness. Linking housing policy with prevention strategies...
Topics: Advocacy, Data sharing, Housing
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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The Children’s Partnership’s newly released policy brief, “Uplifting the Power of Culture: Protective Factors for the Health of California’s Children,” emphasizes how culturally grounded protective factors in early childhood can create equitable pathways to health and success for BIPOC children. By centering these factors in early childhood programs, California can help ensure that all children—especially those from marginalized communities—have the support they need to thrive. Access the brief here.
Topics: Child welfare, Data sharing, Research
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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The Help Me Grow National Center (HMG) conducted a year-long Goal Concordant Care Study to explore how aligning early childhood system support with families’ goals can not only prevent negative outcomes for young children, but also help them thrive. HMG Orange County, California was one of three HMG systems in the study that tested the impact of integrating motivational interviewing as a strategy to elicit, document and share parent’s goals as a systematic enhancement to their HMG Centralized Access Point work. In this new blog post, HMG Orange County provides an inside look at their...
Topics: Advocacy, Data sharing, Research
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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Chapin Hall developed a new strategic framework “Meeting Family Needs: A Multi-System Framework for Family and Child Wellbeing.” The framework stands as an essential tool to help develop an integrated and holistic child and family well-being system which supports families facing adversity and empowers them to thrive. It provides both a vision of this system, and practical steps to get there, along with dozens of programmatic examples from across the country, descriptions of approaches toward applying the framework and a complete list of references. Find it here.
Topics: Data sharing
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) is sharing three new fact sheets for 2025 in its ongoing series, “A Guide to Workplace Leave Laws in the United States.” These 2025 editions provide an overview of the state of play at the local, state and federal levels. The CAP resources are as follows below:
Topics: Research
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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A fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families, “Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation,” reports that most working people in the United States–73 percent, or 106 million people nationwide–do not have paid family leave through their jobs. Just 14 states have their own paid family and medical leave programs. For working people everywhere else, the lack of paid leave exacerbates other economic and care challenges to public health and our economy including the rising cost of living and a scarcity of reproductive and maternal healthcare. The report highlights that if women...
Topics: Data sharing, Research
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) has released a revealing new report on Medicaid in rural areas and small towns. CCF updated its semi-annual rural analysis to show Medicaid's reach in rural areas, which is not always well understood. For your review, a copy of the full report is provided here, and a link to the recording of a recent webinar on the topic can be found here. If you are not up on the current debate on potential Medicaid cuts, this webinar and report are definitely important to listen to and read.
Topics: Medicaid / Medicare, Research
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on Jan 29, 2025 0
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Hear from the Corporation of Supportive Housing on ways and supports to use Medicaid resources on topics such as understanding all components of billing Medicaid for intensive supportive housing case management, and staffing and budgeting training. This will be of particular interest for California, Washington State, and the District of Columbia PHAs and their partners, but all are welcome to learn more about what can be achieved in your community.
Topics: Health, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare
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on Dec 16, 2024 0
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Topics: Housing Is Working Group
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on Oct 1, 2024 0
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The Returning Citizens Stimulus (RCS) program, implemented by the Center for Employment Opportunities, provides cash assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals. An impact study in Los Angeles and Alameda counties found that RCS participants had fewer parole violations in the first year after release from prison, compared with nonparticipants.
Topics: Housing
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on Apr 23, 2025 0
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Despite substantial financial investments in education, millions of California students continue to struggle with reading on grade level, threatening their academic success and future opportunities. But we can change this!
Families In Schools has released a new report, Bright Spots in Los Angeles: School Districts Leading the Charge to Solve the Literacy Crisis, highlighting four school districts in Los Angeles County—Bonita Unified, Garvey Elementary, Long Beach Unified, and Los Angeles Unified—demonstrating stronger literacy outcomes for their students. By shifting to structured literacy...
Topics: Education
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on Apr 17, 2025 0
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There are approximately 430 languages spoken in the United States, making this country one of the most linguistically rich nations in the world. This linguistic diversity is a strength. Indeed, decades of scientific research show that bilingualism is associated with a host of positive outcomes - cognitive, academic, economic, social, and health - for children and adults, for those from multilingual households and for those from monolingual English speaking households. Bilingualism is the norm and not the exception in most other nations. For example, while 92% of Europeans speak two or more...
Topics: Communications, Education, Racial inequalities
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on Mar 18, 2025 0
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Ever wondered what health centers are close to your public housing property? Check out this map to learn more.
Topics: Health, Housing
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on Mar 6, 2025 0
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One of the most cherished founding principles of the United States, equal opportunity for all, is one that has yet to be fully realized for too many Americans. Mountains of data, most recently summarized in a consensus report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023), show us the many ways that opportunity continues to be uneven and unfair, from birth, impacting historically marginalized communities. For over sixty years, born from the Civil Rights Movement, the federal government has funded local communities to build opportunity and bridge gaps in opportunity...
Topics: Advocacy, Early childhood, Education
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on Jan 9, 2025 0
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Research suggests that two-generation (2Gen) approaches can help interrupt the economic and social barriers to many families’ economic mobility and increased well-being and carry long-term benefits. Child Trends – in partnership with Ascend at the Aspen Institute – conducted new analyses for this report, which provides a current data snapshot of some of the families in the United States who may be eligible for and benefit from 2Gen supports and services. Policymakers, researchers, and program evaluators should pay attention to these same data points in efforts to assess families’ needs and...
Topics: Advocacy, Dual-generation, dual-generation initiative, Low-income, Mobility
Shared by Molli Caite Hughes
on Jan 18, 2024 0
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Marjorie Sims, Sarah Haight
January 2024
Focused on the 23,306 young parents (ages 18 to 24) and their families in New Mexico, this report provides a framework for organizations in New Mexico to collaborate more effectively and offers a plan of action to assess these efforts and strengthen impact for families.
This publication aims to deepen understanding about the demographics, aspirations, and needs of young parents; highlights practices and policies aligned with a two-generation (2Gen) approach; showcases opportunities to streamline this work by forging connections between...
Topics: Child welfare, Dual-generation, dual-generation initiative, Early childhood, Family engagement, Healthy homes, Housing
Shared by Molli Caite Hughes
on Jan 18, 2024 0
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Developed by listening to our community, the Alliance has compiled seven hallmarks that make up a person-first health system.
Topics: Advocacy, Community development, Health, Healthy homes, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Molli Caite Hughes
on Dec 6, 2023 0
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Homelessness and child welfare system involvement pose substantial challenges for families, but supportive housing can help them stay together and access secure housing.
Topics: Advocacy, Dual-generation, Healthy homes, Homelessness, Housing, Low-income, Stability
Shared by Molli Caite Hughes
on Nov 15, 2023 0
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People experiencing homelessness disproportionately face systemic barriers to employment, which make finding and keeping a job neither simple nor easy.
Topics: Advocacy, Homelessness, Low-income, Stability, Workforce development
Shared by Molli Caite Hughes
on Nov 15, 2023