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Poverty-Homelessness/ Housing
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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.
New Community of Practice: Families and Economic Crisis 
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: CYFERnet has launched an online community of practice devoted to families navigating economic crisis. The current economy has plunged some families into economic crisis for the first time, and further aggravated families who have been financially stressed for some time. Join this group to find out what new practices are being developed to help families cope, to share your input and observations, and to contribute to new publishing on this subject, which could stand the test of time.
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.
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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.