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Filming for Change: On the Road with Two-Generation Innovators
Mothers at Jeremiah Program in Minnesota During the Great Depression, photographers created riveting images chronicling the desperation of the times. Pictures helped mold the nation’s collective memory and conscience. Seventy years later, the plight and potential of struggling families in our communities is often unseen and ignored, and photographers are once again jump-starting a national…
Pomp & Circumstance for Two-Generations
Follow @SarahHaight You don’t often hear “Pomp & Circumstance” in early August, but the familiar commencement music was a very moving sound last week as I watched 14 single mothers graduate from a rigorous seven-week Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) training program in Sarasota, Florida – with their children, each holding a single red rose…
Moving Beyond Metrics, Moving Beyond Poverty
Follow @MekaeliaD Imagine a region where 14.6 percent of the people are poor – meaning a family of four makes no more than $23,550 per year. Now imagine the same region where 44 percent of the people do not have enough money to stay afloat for three months. What do these two indicators say about…
Building a Cycle of Opportunity, Two Generations at a Time
From left, Assistant Principal Dehea Smith and Principal Dr. Barbara Shirley of Alta Vista Elementary School with Anne Mosle during a recent site visit. This summer, families at Sarasota’s Alta Vista Elementary School are benefiting from Eagle Academy, a seven-week two-generation enrichment program for children entering kindergarten and first grade that also includes mandatory weekly…
Transforming Human Services, One Human Services Official at a Time
Follow @champagne_me From left, Gloria Perez, Henry Wilde, Reggie Bicha, and Anne Mosle Recently I had the opportunity to join several of our Ascend Fellows at the 2013 National Policy Forum in Arlington, Virginia, where we shared the two-generation approach with another national organization, the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA). APHSA is the…
Investing in Solutions for Two Generations: The $1 Million Aspen Institute Ascend Fund
Imagine this: A modern housing campus for single mothers and their children provides on-site high-quality early care and education and career and mental health counselors, and is in close proximity to a college campus that helps the mothers complete career-focused degrees. While in the program, the mothers advance their education, leading to greater income and…