"Their family of three is being featured in the debut edition of a DCF Facebook campaign called 'Homeless 2 Home' -- created after staffer Carrie Hoeppner triggered an outpouring of help when she posted on her personal Facebook page about a homeless family facing Christmas without food. "
"On Friday in Liberty City, more than 500 students at Holmes Elementary received their very own, green-and-white laptops. Students can use them in class and take them home. The idea is that their curiosity will spark learning in new ways."
It's a labor rooted in fascination with and empathy for the homeless that began when he moved to Lincoln Park after graduating from Vassar College, north of New York City.
Like most of his college classmates, Devine prided himself on 'being extraordinarily liberal and compassionate,' he said. But he had never seen poverty's face. Stunned by the homelessness just outside his front door when he moved back to Chicago, he bought a tape recorder and started interviewing homeless people about their lives."
"Smiths and his friends order pizzas and distribute them to homeless children and families. In the past, he baked turkeys and fed the poor and homeless who couldn't get into Skid Row kitchens for Thanksgiving and Christmas."
"The City Colleges of Chicago will announce Monday that it is partnering with private industry and academic institutions to provide mentors, train faculty and develop curricula to help prepare its students for jobs in aviation, hospitality, health care and information technology and other industries that are in need of job candidates."
"A new approach to dealing with female inmates could help Delaware save money, reduce injuries to guards and pull many women out of the cycle of abuse that put them behind bars, officials said Friday."
"After the presentation, people will be asked to stay at the park overnight with nothing more than what they have with them. Community action discourages people from bring tents as the event is meant to simulate what it is like to be homeless in the middle of November."
"Rowen, which educates 450 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, is ahead of many city neighborhood schools; it met state standards and made 'Adequate Yearly Progress' for several years running. But 83 percent of its students are considered low income, and the school lost 15 staffers to the Philadelphia School District's $629 million budget gap this year."
"Teachers at Voise Academy and other schools where technology is central to the curriculum said the Comcast plan is a way to help remove a family's low income as a barrier to educational success."
"Officials at Hoopa Valley High School plan to use state grant funds to hire a licensed marriage family therapist to help its students complete high school in a community struggling with isolation, poverty and unemployment."
"More and more people are falling through the cracks in our community. New U.S. Census data showed that 14.7 percent of people in Boulder County -- about 27,000 -- are now living below the poverty level. Many will become homeless."
"Volunteers pulled weeds, removed trash and built benches, planters and a pergola at the site on East Milwaukee Street. It's across from the Detroit Veteran Housing Program, a 60-bed building that will provide shelter and services for homeless veterans when it opens Nov. 11, Veterans Day."
"It started, Rachel Cohen says, when she got off her bicycle to talk to the homeless kids who live under the Grays Ferry Bridge. They all kept dogs, for protection and comfort. Some wouldn't go to homeless shelters because they weren't allowed to take their dogs inside."
"Both are part of a growing group of Georgia teachers who don't have education degrees nor traditional teaching backgrounds but are now staffing some of the state's most poverty challenged schools."
"Researchers have linked not reading over the summer to achievement gaps between low-income students and their wealthier peers. But studies indicate "reading loss" doesn't affect just those students."
"A week after the U.S. Census Bureau reported that one in six people live in poverty, members of about 10 national human service organizations gathered at the Omni Hotel for the first National Poverty Summit."
"The two Wellesley College graduates are trying to raise $20,000 for the Our Sisters' School, a tuition-free, school for fifth- to eighth-grade girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in New Bedford, Mass."
""[Smiley and West], who are best friends and have long been concerned with the state of blacks in America, described the tour — which is not solely focused on blacks — as an attempt to force the White House and Congress to pay more attention the poor.""
"Davis is one of nearly 500 men who have been helped by A Father’s Place in Conway to find their way back to their children. The agency is primarily funded through the Sisters of Charity Foundation in Columbia, which has a long-standing, statewide effort to reconnect absent fathers with their children and families as part of its overall goal of reducing poverty."
"Even as crime has fallen and graduation rates have risen in New York over the past decade, city officials said that black and Latino men, especially those between ages 16 and 24, remained in crisis by nearly every measure, including rates of arrest, school suspension and poverty."
"The city is making similar changes in low-income neighborhoods' food environments. The broader campaign... funded with a federal grant, includes introducing mobile carts that sell fresh fruits and vegetables, stocking more produce in corner stores..."
Milla Sanes, Center for Law and Social Policy
"Taking advantage of a new school building, Revere launched the state's first innovation school, the Paul Revere Innovation School, where programs cater to the emotional and social well-being of students, most of whom live in poverty."
"The policy is meant to help low-income kids who don't have access to the Internet or who come from chaotic, crowded homes with no quiet place to study. But the shift is cause for celebration among some middle- and upper-middle income families too. "
"Since late last year, a committee of the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force has been studying the feasibility of having a 'wet' shelter, where such people could spend the night instead of having to sleep outside."
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