Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g5I2xUX08284; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <002501c21672$d7cfd540$5b69f7a5@oemcomputer> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:837] Connect for Kids Weekly X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3132 Lines: 65 Following are some goodies from this week's Connect for Kids e newsletter -Mary Ann Corley * * * * * * * * * * **Lights, Camera . Activism When four women from a poor Milwaukee neighborhood documented their lives on camera for two weeks, the result was an eloquent portrait of their community -- and a change in the women themselves. Connect for Kids has awarded the resulting documentary, My Family, My Neighborhood, My Story, the first-ever Fight Family Poverty Award. Caitlin Johnson spoke with the initiators of the project. Read her story, then watch the film from your computer. http://www.connectforkids.org **Housing: An Essential Piece of Financial Stability Housing costs have risen out of sight for many low- and moderate-income families, causing an "invisible crisis" of housing. The new Millennial Housing Commission report offers a blueprint for what Congress can do to improve policy and assist communities, but advocates say without a public outcry, getting lawmakers to focus on the need for better affordable housing is difficult. For more information, call Betty Weiss (202-408-8553) or Randy West (202-258-5417). http://www.mhc.gov/ **Short Take on What It Takes to Help Families on Welfare As the Senate takes up its Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization package, much legislative attention will focus on several interlocking issues: whether to increase work requirements and participation rates for families needing welfare assistance, how much flexibility states should have regarding time limits for working families, and what to count as a work activity. This "Short Take" from the Urban Institute gives a clear overview of the issues and offers recommendations to make TANF work for families. http://www.urban.org/ViewPub.cfm?PubID=310506 **Taking Care of Ill Children on TANF A five-year study from Columbia University found that as many as a third of parents on welfare have a chronically ill child, requiring frequent medical and other visits and often forcing parents to choose between losing their job or compromising their child's medical care. http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/sph/Displayimage.asp?Event_No=304 **Rural Families Speak Most people think of families on welfare as living in cities, but many live in rural areas. A look at these families finds that the odds are that they will not reach financial stability without ongoing assistance. Most have long work histories, but wages are inadequate to support their families. More than three-quarters are not receiving TANF cash assistance, and although the majority of single mothers have child support court orders, few receive child support. http://fsos.che.umn.edu/bauer/pdf/RuralFamiliesBrief.pdf **Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More This 50-state survey, part of the Kaiser Family Fund's "Building on Medicaid" series, finds that states are taking steps to transform Medicaid from its original welfare-based program into something resembling a more traditional health insurance program. http://www.kff.org/content/2002/20020611 _________________________________
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