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Below are a series of summaries of Press Advisories we have written. We reach out to the press in order to inform them of our work and inspire them to cover our issues and activities. You can download the full advisories by clicking on the PDF files that are attached below the summaries. Advisories are listed in reverse chronological order.

Research Report to Be Released Evaluating $160 Million in Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Submitted by sondra on Mon, 2008-11-10 16:23. Community Voices Heard (CVH) will release its new report Missing the Mark: An Examination of NYC's Back to Work Program and Its Effectiveness in Meeting Employment Goals for Welfare Recipients on Thursday, November 13th at 10am.  This report and briefing will highlight the restuls of a research project that explored the effectiveness of current job readiness and job placement programs contracted by the City of New York's Human Resources Administration (HRA) to move people from welfare to work.  The Back to Work Program began in 2006 as the replacement program for the former Employment Services and Placement (ESP) Program unpon which an earlier report, The Revolving Door, was based.  This new report evaluates the system's performance in meeting its objectives, discusses barriers and problems vendors encounter in providing services, and offers recommendations to improve the services the system provides.  The findings are based on discussions with 954 welfare recipients in the program, in-depth focus groups and phone surveys with over 200 of those participants, one-on-one interviews with the program vendors, and an examination of HRA reports and statistics.  Please see attached Press Advisory for information on the public briefing scheduled for the morning of the release.
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Beyond the Statistics: Poor New Yorkers to Speak Out on Poverty in New York

Submitted by dominique on Tue, 2008-08-26 17:00. Poor New Yorkers will be gathering tomorrow 8/26/08 to read and react to the statistics on income poverty and health insurance as they are released by the US Census Bureau. As the experts make their statements people who live in poverty everyday will make their voices heard in this discussion. 
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Low-income Residents Take to the Streets to Demand a Voice in Yonkers Development

Submitted by mike on Tue, 2008-02-12 14:58.

Low-income residents of Yonkers and members of Community Voices Heard will March to City Hall to demand that the city include housing and jobs for low-income families in the plans for development in Getty’s Square, and that no more public housing will be demolished. We are marching because Southwest Yonkers is being rapidly developed and gentrified, displacing low-income people. Mulford Gardens, a public housing development, is set for demolition and the plan to rebuild it does not include enough low-income units for all former residents to return.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
6:30PM: March begins at Chicken Island, Yonkers
7:00PM: Press Conference at Yonkers City Hall, 40 South Broadway

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Low-Income New Yorkers Hold New Orleans Themed Funderal March To Mourn the Displacement of Poor People from Cities Nationwide

Submitted by mike on Fri, 2008-01-25 15:40.

This Saturday, January 26th, Community Voices Heard is organizing an action in order to target Obama and Clinton to move forward timely legislation and promote a low-income agenda. January 26th is the international day of action as part of the World and US Social Forums. Organizations from around the world will be doing actions for social justice on this day and CVH is holding this action in order to be a part of this momentous day.

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City Wide Public Housing Rally This Thursday!

Submitted by mike on Mon, 2007-10-01 13:51.

This Thursday there will be a City Wide Public Housing Rally at City Hall Park. This rally is to demand that the City create a budget modification to supply $30 million in funding for public housing.

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Public Housing Constituency Tour This Thursday July 26th

Submitted by mike on Mon, 2007-07-23 18:05.

This upcoming Thursday, July 26th we are organizing a Constituency Tour of two Public Housing developments, Wagner in East Harlem and Drew Hamilton in West Harlem. We will be taking elected officials on both the State and the City levels around the developments to highlight the effects of disinvestment by the State and Federal government on NYCHA's buildings. There will be a photo gallery to represent all the problems that disinvestment has caused in Public Housing throughout the city.

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Long Term Residents of Yonkers Guide State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins on a Day Living in Poverty This Thursday, July 12th

Submitted by mike on Wed, 2007-07-11 13:09.

Low-income residents of Yonkers who are also members of Community Voices Heard will guide State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins on a day living in poverty this Thursday, July 12th. Residents will first take the Senator to the Yonkers Department of Social Services (DSS) office to offer her a glimpse of the service and treatment they receive there. Next they will go to a Public Housing development to show her some of the conditions they must endure and to stress the importance of saving and preserving low-income housing. This will be followed by a stop at Chicken Island, the proposed site of a large scale development project. Here residents will stress the importance of community input in the development process. Finally, residents will end the day with a meeting to propose solutions to the problems to which the Senator has been exposed.

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Research Report to Be Released Evaluating $200 Million in Welfare Contracts

Submitted by mike on Sun, 2007-03-04 13:17.

Community Voices Heard (CVH) will release its new report, Failure to Comply: The Disconnect between Design and Implementation in HRA’s WeCARE Program

This report and briefing will highlight the results of a research project that explored the WeCARE program, a two-year old program in New York City that is supposed to provide specialized services and enhanced support to public assistance recipients with disabilities. The findings are based on conversations with over 700 WeCARE participants, in-depth focus groups, interviews and phone surveys with 100 of those participants.

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Public Housing Residents Deliver Holiday Gift of Votes to Governor Elect Spitzer

Submitted by mike on Thu, 2006-12-14 13:20.

New York City Public housing residents will deliver Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer the holiday gift of 3,000 postcards, signed by public housing residents who pledged to vote for Governor in the 2006 election. Each post card details an issue plaguing public housing residents. Because New York State has not given any money to New York City Public Housing since 1997, Community Voices Heard members request a meeting with the Governor to discuss how he can improve public housing in New York City (or request that Spitzer give them the gift of state funding to improve public housing).

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On Day Census Bureau Releases Annual Poverty Statistics Low-Income New Yorkers Call on Mayor Bloomberg’s CEO to Offer Solutions

Submitted by mike on Mon, 2006-08-28 13:29.

Press conference with low-income New Yorkers testifying about personal experiences living in poverty in New York City. Speakers include welfare recipients and unemployed New Yorkers. Group will call on Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, the Commission for Economic Opportunity (CEO) and City agencies to make a real commitment to addressing poverty and joblessness in the city by better coordinating the workforce development system, expanding paid transitional jobs programs, investing in career-ladder training programs, and talking directly to low-income New Yorkers. Group will sing its version of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” highlighting the other side of New York and hand out information about the CEO to passersby.

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