• Helping foster youth attain college and persist there | From: The Philadelphia Public School Notebook
• Pa. bills would subsidize the costs of college | From: The Philadelphia Public School Notebook
• See how trauma can determine our health and even our income | From: ParaTiMujer Radio Program (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: Researchers found that planting grass and trees in formerly empty and blighted lots led residents within a quarter-mile radius to feel 40 percent less depressed. In neighborhoods that fell below the poverty line, the effect was even more pronounced, with feelings of depression dropping 68 percent. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: The HEALers are part of People’s Emergency Center, a West Philadelphia nonprofit that offers housing, job training, life skills, and other resources for the homeless. (Read more.)
From ParaTiMujer Radio Program: Children’s Crisis Treatment Center CEO Tony Valdes discusses trauma and its effects. (Read more.)
• Beyond SEPTA Key: New program replaces tokens for people in need | From: Billy Penn
• Why this couple’s wedding registry was devoted to paying off Philly kids’ court costs | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• New report sheds light on poverty | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• How this Philadelphia neighborhood is gentrifying without displacement | From: Next City
• Philadelphians feel squeezed as U.S. economy seems to hum. That’s a poverty problem | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Here’s where people living on Philly streets can find respite from the heat | From: Generocity (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Public School Notebook: The Field Center is working with eight area colleges and universities in a Foster Care to College program to provide the support that foster youth need to get to and through college. (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Philadelphia legislators have introduced bills in the state Senate and House of Representatives that would give low-income and middle-class students full tuition scholarships to community colleges and state-related universities. (Read more.)
From Billy Penn: To accommodate social service agencies, SEPTA allowed them to continue to buy tokens in bulk. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: According to the Federal Reserve’s 2017 Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households report, four in 10 Americans could not come up with $400 in case of an emergency. (Read more.)
From NBC10/Telemundo62: A new report is showing the squeeze on Philadelphia’s wallets — and so more people are working two jobs. Chris Clackum reports. (Read more.)
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