Poverty-Homelessness/ Housing
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– General Information –
Description: A website for Community Action Partnership, which serves to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. Includes links to training opportunities, events, research, and publications.
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persists 
Author: Mattingly, Marybeth; Kenneth M. Johnson; Andrew Schaefer
Description: A research brief from the Carsey Institute that overviews the persistence of poverty in rural America and the specific generational impact that this has on children across the United States.
Description: From N.C. Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences specialists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University, a website devoted to providing fact sheets about coping with personal and financial crises. Developed in response to the impact of the current economic situation on communities, youth, and families, this website covers a wide range of topics including: saving money, talking to children about the economy, shopping for healthy foods on a tight budget, avoiding home foreclosure, and other timely topics.
Pew Partnership for Civic Change: Civic Change Project
Description: An overview of an initiative designed to address tough issues that communities face, such as at-risk youth, affordable housing, etc.
Pew Partnership for Civic Change: Thriving Neighborhoods
Description: A promising practices piece that offers information to help neighborhoods thrive. Discusses issues such as affordable housing and neighborhood safety.
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.
– Professional Development –
Description: A website for Community Action Partnership, which serves to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. Includes links to training opportunities, events, research, and publications.
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America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 is a compendium of indicators depicting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from our most reliable statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences. This report compiles the most recent national figures about the 75 million youth between ages zero and 17 in the U.S in seven different domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Description: Chapter 15 in a manual that addresses community strategies to help families become
self-sufficient. This chapter discusses issues associated with affordable housing for low income families.
Pew Partnership for Civic Change: Civic Change Project
Description: An overview of an initiative designed to address tough issues that communities face, such as at-risk youth, affordable housing, etc.
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.
– Research –
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
The Effects of Subsidized Housing on Communities
Author: Goetz, Edward
Description: A research brief summarizing 25 years of research on housing dispersal programs and their effects on the participants and the communities into which they move.