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Jennifer Rossi
Special to The Citizen
Fifty-six years ago, the founders of Community Action Programs Cayuga/Seneca set out to illuminate the realities of income inequality and redefine the outdated, hurtful images personified on television that were too often counterproductive in creating meaningful policy solutions to challenge poverty. Community Action was a revolutionary approach for neighborhoods across the United States to implement specialized programming based on local need, not a one-size-fits-all approach ground in perceptions and myths.
Just as important now as it was back then, there is still an urgent need to reframe the conversation on poverty, to really understand the struggles of others and for us to share our own struggles openly to effectively offer solutions toward positive change. CAPâs services are thoughtfully developed and coordinated, enhanced and offered to address the root causes of poverty and to ultimately move individuals and families,
A Coralville city councilor is hopping into the race for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. And if she wins, Meghann Foster would be the first person from Coralville to hold the office in recent memory. It s just another perspective that hasn t been there, and I think that, as the second-largest municipality (in the county), it would be good to have somebody that has that perspective, Foster said of the June 8 special election that will fill the seat vacated 21 months early by Janelle Rettig.
Foster is the community engagement coordinator for the Domestic Violence Intervention Program and teaches in the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is the vice chairwoman on the board of directors for the Coralville Community Food Pantry.
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Victim service providers across Iowa are worried they ll have to provide less help during a time of increasing need if state legislators don t fill a $6 million gap for fiscal year 2021 caused by cuts to a federal grant.
Instead, the Iowa House of Representatives has proposed that the state maintain the same amount of funding as last year, a little more than $5 million. That money goes to 28 groups who assist Iowa families affected by homicide, sexual assault, domestic violence and other crimes. Unfortunately, we just can t afford to backfill all that huge cut, Rep. Gary Worthan, R-Storm Lake, told the Press-Citizen on Tuesday.