Tagged With "Virginia Rent Relief"
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Richmond Group Nurtures Trauma-Informed Networks Across Virginia
Resilience Week had to live up to its name. Virginia’s recognition of resilience-building efforts, originated by the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) and planned in collaboration with TICNs across the state, was set for May 3-9, 2020. Then COVID-19 came. A work group of GRTICN members collaborated with businesses, movie theaters, libraries, schools, local government agencies and non-profit organizations to swiftly pivot their plans to take place virtually: story...
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Do You Have Change/Initiative Fatigue?
Taken from : https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-you-have-change-fatigue Many change efforts are greeted with rolling eyes from employees. Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Rosabeth Moss Kanter help identify the keys to a successful company transformation. Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee...
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A Novel Effort to See How Poverty Affects Young Brains [nytimes.com]
By Alla Katsnelson, The New York Times, April 7, 2021 New monthly payments in the pandemic relief package have the potential to lift millions of American children out of poverty. Some scientists believe the payments could change children’s lives even more fundamentally — via their brains. It’s well established that growing up in poverty correlates with disparities in educational achievement, health and employment. But an emerging branch of neuroscience asks how poverty affects the developing...
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HRTICN Highlights: August 5th, 2021
The Virginia Rent Relief program is really trying to get the word out how it can provide rental assistance (and more) for households within 80% Area Median Income, and with rents within 150% of Fair Market Rent. This program is helping a lot of people and the best news is – you DO NOT have to be behind on rent to be eligible! Also, anyone with a housing subsidy is automatically eligible for up to 18 months of assistance! We are sending this information out to our networks to share so it can...
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HRTICN Highlights: August 20th, 2021
Join HRTICN as we celebrate Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week (RTRW), a virtual conference hosted by Voices for Virginia’s Children that promotes the reckoning of Virginia’s past to reconcile our present and future. RTRW is an awareness week aimed at empowering marginalized communities to promote healing, reconciliation, and justice for children and families. This year, more than 57 organizations, executives, policymakers, advocates, and activists from around the commonwealth presenting...