December 3, 2015
Deadline Extended -- Additional Rooms at the Group Rate added at the Westin for the Management and Leadership Training Conference in New Orleans!
|
|
 |
 REGISTER BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, FOR THE 2016 MANAGEMENT AND
LEADERSHIP TRAINING CONFERENCE AND SAVE!
|
Deadline Extended - Additional rooms at the Group Rate added at the Westin!
Our Conference hotel for the Management and Leadership Training Conf  erence (MLTC), the Westin New Orleans Canal Place, sold out of rooms at the Community Action Partnership group rate as of today. However, the Westin has added a limited number of rooms at the low group rate of $149.00. The cut-off deadline for reserving rooms, originally Friday, December 4th, has been extended one week to Friday, December 11.
And ... the Opening Day of our MLTC is King Day, the start of the Mardi Gras season and a great day in New Orleans. Come and help us celebrate and enjoy sampling King Cakes at the Wednesday welcome reception!
Please remember to submit your registration for the January Management and Leadership Conference in New Orleans at the Westin Canal Place.
Leading with Resilience - The Community Action Way
Click here to reserve hotel rooms online at Westin Canal Place
or call the Westin at 1-888-627-8180.
Rooms are almost sold out -- reserve now!
Click here for the
|
$32 MILLION AVAILABLE TO HELP GET ELIGIBLE CHILDREN ENROLLED IN MEDICAID & CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (CHIP)
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is announcing a funding opportunity to support efforts to reach out to families with children eligible for Medicaid and CHIP, and help get them covered and stay covered for as long as they qualify. Awards will be in the form of cooperative agreements, ranging in size from $250,000 to $1 million over a two-year period.
About Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Funding
Connecting Kids to Coverage outreach and enrollment funding supports activities aimed at identifying children who are eligible for Medicaid and CHIP and helping their families enroll and renew their coverage. Along with the National Connecting Kids to Coverage Campaign, these activities have helped boost enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP. They also have helped to engage a wide range of partners in taking steps to make health coverage outreach and enrollment a part of their routine efforts to ensure the health and security of the nation's children and their families.
Who Can Apply: State and local governments, Indian tribes, certain health care provider organizations, nonprofit organizations including community and faith-based groups, and schools and school districts are eligible to apply. For more information on how to apply visit: http://www.grants.gov.
PROPOSALS ARE DUE JANUARY 20, 2016.
CMS will host two conference calls for prospective applicants:
Thursday, November 19, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Call-in: 1-877-267-1577 Passcode: 992 099 111
Monday, November 30, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Call-in: 1-877-267-1577 Passcode: 998 168 839 Password: Meeting1
(this teleconference will be using the new WebEx system and requires the addition of a password)
Please send questions regarding this information to: CMS_TA@grantreview.org- View the Connecting Kids to Coverage Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on grants.gov
- View a fact sheet summarizing the funding opportunity (pdf)
- Read the official press release
|
CSBG DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER: TRIBAL YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FY2016
|
Dear Colleague,
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, and in celebration of the next generation of tribal leaders, we, in the Office of Community Services (OCS), are writing today to ask for your partnership in helping create more opportunities for Native youth engagement, empowerment, education and employment.
As a recent White House Report notes, Native youth have a special role as citizens of tribal nations in defining the future of this country, and also in leading Native cultures, traditions, and governments into the next century. However, they experience significant institutional and intergenerational challenges in reaching their potential. Native children are far more likely than their non-Native peers to grow up in poverty, to suffer from severe health problems, and to face obstacles to educational opportunity. These conditions are systemic and severe, and must be addressed through increased resources and strategic action.
Obama Administration Commitments
In July 2015, the President and Mrs. Obama hosted the first ever White House Tribal Youth Gathering with more than 1,000 young leaders from 230 tribes. Those in attendance are also a part of the National Native Youth Network, which aims to create a platform to integrate Native youth voices into the national dialogue.
In conjunction with the Youth Gathering, the Administration made specific commitments in the following areas:
- Preparing Native youth for higher education;
- Creating safe and supportive Native communities; and
- Expanding economic opportunities.
As background, it was in December 2014 that President Obama launched the Generation Indigenous Initiative. Through new investments and increased engagement, this initiative takes a comprehensive, culturally-appropriate approach to ensure all young Native people can reach their full potential.
What you can do
You can take several important steps to help foster a bright future for Native youth:
- Join the National Native Youth Network by signing up at the following link: http://genindigenous.com/network/;
- Share information from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center;
- Refer youth and their families to the newly-created Native One-Stop Portal;
- Submit Native youth "stories of inspiration" to your Office of Community Services program specialist and/or to the Center for Native American Youth; and/or
- Review and share the Generation Indigenous Toolkit for additional ideas.
Community Services Block Grant
In FY 2015, several CSBG Tribal grantees included specific suicide prevention activities in their CSBG Tribal Plans. As grantees assess community needs and develop future CSBG Tribal Plans, please be aware that CSBG funding may be used to support youth suicide prevention activities and programs. CSBG funding may be used "to address the needs of youth in low-income communities through youth development programs that support the primary role of the family, give priority to the prevention of youth problems and crime, and promote increased community coordination and collaboration in meeting the needs of youth." (Public Law 105-285, SEC. 676(b)(1)(B))
Let's heed the President's words from a recent visit to Choctaw Nation:
"We've got a special obligation to make sure that tribal youth have every opportunity to achieve their potential not just for the benefit of themselves and their communities, but for our entire nation."
Thank you,
Jeannie L. Chaffin Seth Hassett
Director Director, Division of State Assistance
Office of Community Services Office of Community Services
|
LONG-TERM COMMUNITY ACTION LEADER TED EDLICH RELEASES BOOK
|
 Navigating the Nonprofit Rapids
Ted Edlich was an incredible trailblazer for 40 years as the president & CEO of Total Action for Progress. Now he shares the ingredients of his success to help others elevate their work to higher levels. Edlich was honored as the 2015 recipient of the Community Action Partnership's Robert M. Coard Innovation Award...read more.
|
2016 POLITICS, POVERTY AND THE PRESIDENCY FORUM
| Join the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, the Community Action Partnership, the National Community Action Foundation (NCAF), and the New England Community Action Partnership (NECAP) for the 2016 Politics, Poverty and the Presidency forum, being held at the Radisson Hotel Nashua in Nashua, NH, January 21-22, 2016.
This event will allow CAA and Alliance members to hear from presidential candidates around issues impacting low-income individuals and families and hear their thoughts on how they plan to address them, if they get elected in 2016. All presidential candidates are invited, along with prominent speakers on poverty and inequality. More details can be found in the attached flyer.
Registration rate $175; click here to register. Hotel rate $109/night. Call the Radisson Hotel Nashua at (603) 888-9970 and use code NECAP.
__________________________________________________________________________________
|
$32 MILLION AVAILABLE TO GET KIDS ENROLLED IN MEDICAID AND CHIP
|
Call for Applications: $32 Million Available to Help Get Eligible Children Enrolled in Medicaid & Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is announcing a funding opportunity to support efforts to reach out to families with children eligible for Medicaid and CHIP, and help get them covered and stay covered for as long as they qualify. Awards will be in the form of cooperative agreements, ranging in size from $250,000 to $1 million over a two-year period.
About Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Funding
Connecting Kids to Coverage outreach and enrollment funding supports activities aimed at identifying children who are eligible for Medicaid and CHIP and helping their families enroll and renew their coverage. Along with the National Connecting Kids to Coverage Campaign, these activities have helped boost enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP. They also have helped to engage a wide range of partners in taking steps to make health coverage outreach and enrollment a part of their routine efforts to ensure the health and security of the nation's children and their families.
Who Can Apply
State and local governments, Indian tribes, certain health care provider organizations, nonprofit organizations including community and faith-based groups, and schools and school districts are eligible to apply. For more information on how to apply visit: http://www.grants.gov
PROPOSALS ARE DUE JANUARY 20, 2016
CMS will host two conference calls for prospective applicants:
* Thursday, November 19, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Call-in: 1-877-267-1577 Passcode: 992 099 111
* Monday, November 30, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Call-in: 1-877-267-1577 Passcode: 998 168 839 Password: Meeting1
(this teleconference will be using the new WebEx system and requires the addition of a password)
|
CITIES BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH NEWSLETTER
|
Now available is a new report from CommunityWealth.org, Cities Building Community Wealth, written by Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly and Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley. The report profiles the work of local officials who have taken up the community wealth building approach to creating inclusive and sustainable economies.
The report will be the centerpiece of a convening involving mayors, directors of economic development, scholars and practitioners on January 29, 2016, co-hosted by the CUNY School of Law Community and Economic Development Clinic. Find out more about the convening here, and read more about the report.
Click here to read the newsletter.
|
USING COMMUNITY COMMONS DATA TO INFORM ACA
OUTREACH AND ENROLLMENT
|
|
| |
This map links to the Community Commons website
|
We hope that you are all taking advantage of our new Community Needs Assessment Tool on the platform Community Commons. This site hosts over 10,000 layers of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Labor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and now data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Affordable Care Act enrollment. See the latest brief from the Community Commons team discussing the latest developments in the ACA outreach and enrollment strategy that we have already been sharing from the White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - but in geographic information systems maps! This technology allows points of data to be layered on top of each other to show the intersection of issues and trends. The maps in the brief are clickable and will take you to the site allowing you to alter them, share them on social media, or print them out for your specific community or state. These are great visuals for community partnerships and advocacy. We hope you will take advantage of our partnership with Community Commons for your next needs assessment and for your reporting and advocacy efforts. View the full brief here and check out more information about our Needs Assessment Tool on Community Commons here.
|
BREAD FOR THE WORLD RELEASES 2016 HUNGER REPORT
|
 THE NOURISHING EFFECT: REDUCING HUNGER,
IMPROVING HEALTH, REDUCING INEQUALITY
This policy brief released recently from Bread for the World offers current statistics on hunger and food insecurity and its relationship to health care. The brief discusses many of the intersections that Community Action is grappling with as a Network in order to best serve our clients and community - the impact of toxic stress and trauma, the impact of education and employment on health, goal of community partnerships and coordination to utilize collective impact in order to address these interconnected issues. Bread for the World discusses these issues in America, in comparision to the strategies utilized by other countries, and offers their perspective on strategies community organizations can utilize and what they believe policy makers can do to help.
http://hungerreport.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HR2016-Executive-Summary.pdf |
THE PRIVATE SAFETY NET AMONG LOW-INCOME FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN: DECEMBER 10 WEBINAR FROM SSRC
|
 The Private Safety Net among Low-Income Families with Young Children On December 10, 2015 from 3:00-4:00 PM EST the Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse (SSRC) will host The Private Safety Net among Low-Income Families with Young Children Webinar. This webinar will explore how low-income families use the private safety net to make ends meet. The "private safety net" is defined as assistance from friends and family. Dr. Pilkauskas will focus on housing, child care, and cash transfers to examine the estimated economic value of this private safety net and compare it to the economic assistance received from public safety net programs like SNAP, the EITC or TANF. Ms. Christianne Lind will serve as the Discussant, and Dr. Kristin Moore will moderate the discussion. Registrants are invited to submit their questions. Register here. |
DECEMBER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FROM WIPFLI
| |
|
NEW FINANCIAL WELL-BEING BOOK LAUNCHES 12/8:
SIGN UP FOR THE FREE LIVE WEBCAST!
| |
Join Us December 8 for the Free Live Webcast of the Launch of What It's Worth
New book to focus on opportunities to build financial health and well-being
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 | 10 am-5 pm EST
Join the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, CFED and the Citi Foundation on Tuesday, December 8, for the live webcast of the Financial Well-Being Summit to mark the release of the new book, What It's Worth: Strengthening the Financial Future of Families, Communities and the Nation.
Hear from policymakers, employers and others who will highlight innovations that are breaking down barriers that keep too many families from financial success. Topics to be covered include:
- Education, Jobs, Housing & Health
- Economy, Politics & the Financial System
- Race, Gender, Age & Place
- Insights into Financial Decision-Making
Click here to RSVP! |
AFTERSCHOOL MEALS MATTER, CONFERENCE CALL ON DECEMBER 17
|
Providing Quality Programming at your Afterschool Meal Program
December 17, 2015, 1 pm Eastern
Serving meals at your afterschool program can significantly boost enrollment by children, but offering engaging and interesting activities can also be just as critical to maintaining participation. Learn about quality educational programming ideas that you can offer and resources that you can access at little to no cost to support your program.
Click here to register.
|
UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA AND ITS IMPACT ON FAMILIES IN POVERTY
|  The Learning Community Resource Center hosted the first of its National Webinar Series yesterday December 2 with Subject Matter Expert Elena Cohen - Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Families in Poverty. The webinar defined acute, chronic and complex (toxic), historical secondary trauma; described the impact of trauma, in the context of poverty, on the family and organizational systems; and encouraged participants to build their knowledge and skills to recognize the effects of trauma on children, families and staff to design family centered, trauma-specific interventions that strengthen the family and the organization's ability to adapt, cope and heal.The slides and recording are available on the LCRC website at http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=116#webinars
|
TAX CREDITS OUTREACH: TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ADVOCATES:
WEBINAR ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10
| 
Do you work or volunteer in an organization that serves low- or middle- income families?
If so, we need your help. Millions of dollars in available federal and state tax credits go unclaimed each year. These credits can make a huge difference for many working families struggling to make ends meet.
Join the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for a webinar to find out how you can spread the word to the families you work with to make sure they know about these valuable tax credits.
Tax Credits Outreach: Tips and Tools for Advocates
Tuesday, December 10, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern
This webinar will provide you with:
- Free outreach materials
- Information to help you connect with local coalitions working with families
- Ways to find free tax preparation services in your community
- Successful techniques for spreading the word about tax credits
|
JOIN THE PARTNERSHIP NOW FOR 2016!
|
Why Join Community Action Partnership?
 Agencies like yours continue to shape the vision and the future of Community Action. A strong network puts you in touch with many colleagues across the country and gives your agency a strong and unified voice and a vital communications link to federal agencies and other organizations, both public and private, that share or support the mission and the Promise of Community Action.
Community Action Partnership looks forward to working with you in 2016. We hope that you can take a few minutes to invest in your future during this upcoming, critical year for our network.
Please complete the membership application for the Partnership.
If your agency has already submitted the membership dues for 2016 - "Thank You!" We appreciate your involvement and support. We look forward to launching some outstanding opportunities for membership involvement in the coming year! Your energy and involvement have helped to keep Community Action Partnership responsive to your needs and built the strongest community action network ever. Membership gives you more than ever before ... access to training, publications, educational resources, and management tools which help you run a CAA more productively. Community Action Partnership welcomes like-minded organizations, friends, and affiliates as members - organizations and companies that are like-minded and support the work of Community Action. If you would like to consider membership, you can check "affiliate" in the membership categories. If you have any questions, please contact Sranda Watkins, Membership Coordinator at swatkins@communityactionpartnership.com or by phone at (202) 449-9773.
|
JOIN THE 2016-2017 LEARNING COMMUNITY!
| |
|
|
ISA is an insurance provider providing property, liability, and risk management services. Click here to learn about the Irwin Siegel Agency alliance with the Partnership or visit their website. |
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2014 All Rights Reserved.
|
|
|
|
