For so many children and families in New Haven and surrounding towns, Farnam Neighborhood House is a home away from home. Farnam offers a variety of programs, many of which have been around since I was a kid.
Submitted by Jack Phillips on December 12, 2011 - 5:21pm
At Solar Youth, we believe that achieving long-term success, no matter where you come from or what challenges you face in life, depends on the acquisition of core personal and social competencies. This belief is backed by a growing body of research in the positive youth development field. Solar Youth uses the Search Institute’s Developmental Asset framework, one of the most widely used approaches to youth development in the U.S., in determining which outcomes we seek for our youth.
At LEAP, we believe that high school students should begin thinking about and preparing early for the transition to college. Our high school students, called College Prep Scholars, complete a development program intended to ensure they graduate high school and matriculate to a four- or two-year college. Throughout the school year, CPS's participate in SAT-preparation courses, college essay workshops, and interveiw skill workshops.
Submitted by Jack Healy on April 28, 2011 - 12:00am
New Haven lost a giant last week and he left an indelible mark on this city. Herb Pearce was a self-made man who started his career in New Haven at the A. C. Gilbert Company. At the tender young age of 55, he left A. C. Gilbert and started the H. Pearce Real Estate Co. He was a can do kind of guy and well known throughout New Haven. Herb was the most positive person I have ever known. His energy was infectious and it was a joy to be around him.
This Request for Information (RFI) has two goals: 1) to respond to specific needs identified by the Boost! pilot schools by connecting them to available community resources and services, and 2) to gain a greater understanding of our community's capacity to provide quality wraparound services to children in New Haven public schools.
Submitted by J.R. Logan on August 18, 2010 - 10:21am
Everywhere I turn I see people working on socially minded technology projects.
I first saw the energy lifting in New Haven last year when Matt Kelley(Change.org blogger), Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix.com Founder), Jarad Duval (Author of Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change), and myself got together for beers to talk about how we could get more people to embrace the public benefits of changing technology. We hoped that by pooling the brains of the nerds of New Haven we would discover oportunties to work together for positive social change. We decieded that the place to start would be just providing a place for those with the technical skills and interest to explore ideas and innovation without focusing directly tasking out action. We called our group "Social Change and Technology". Our gatherings where and still are informal conversations over pizza and beer.
While working with others to organize this group, I have been introduced to a surprising number of people working on ideas that will create a positive change in our community.
In this 5 minute interview Andrew Orefice covers the focus of STRIVE, offers his experienced opinion as to why New Haven is a preferable community, and explains how the positive community interface can be replicated elsewhere.
And in health care, three years ago the CT legislature asked HUSKY (Connecticut's Medicaid program to provide health care coverage to low-income children and adults) to pilot a program called Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) that has demonstrated significant cost savings in other parts of the county. The idea is simple: remove private insurance companies and instead people on HUSKY covered by PCCM receive care coordination through their primary care physicians. The state pays providers $7.50/month to cover the cost of coordinating care, and patients get the benefit of working closely with their doctors and not facing limits on care based on health insurance providers trying to manage their costs.
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A project that helps New Haven residents increase racial equity by encouraging dialogues in and across neighborhoods and supporting action to further positive change.
