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In Their Own Words
Talk to people or families who have triumphed over poverty. Tell the story of life on the economic margins from the perspective of those who live it.
- Ask local churches or community-based, self-help organizations
with low-income members to help identify a person or family to
be interviewed.
- Contact your state, county or city's welfare services, division
of aging, department of health or job service offices for data
on programs that provide assistance to the poor, such as WIC,
Medicaid, Medicare and job training.
- Read the responses to CCHD's Low
Income Survey - and hear the nation's poor explain, in their
own words, what it really means to be poor in America.
- Feature successful CCHD-funded projects in your area.
- For an interview on programs that are making a difference,
contact the CCHD communications office.
Project Highlight:
In
1994, the Neighborhood Pride Team (NPT) was formed by a group of women
in a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood plagued with high unemployment.
Their goal was to create income-producing jobs by forming a “Skills
Center” and entrepreneurial training programs. One such program, funded
by CCHD, is Trillium Artisans Marketing Cooperative helping
men and women, many of whom are Gypsies, make and market arts and
crafts from reclaimed and recycled materials. For more information
about this project or other CCHD-funded job training and education
projects, contact Barbara Stephenson, CCHD director of communications,
cchdmedia@usccb.org
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press
releases...
story
ideas...
CCHD
news room...
poverty
facts...
Use
this collection of facts about
the state of poverty in America to enhance your story, including
the Top Ten Poverty Rates of U.S. cities, counties
and states.
profiles...
About
CCHD
Bio:
Father Robert J. Vitillo
2004 PSA numbers...
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TV:
240 stations in 46 states |
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Radio:
504 outlets in 50 states |
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Print: 1,274 insertions in newspapers and magazines
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PSA
Campaign Numbers Soar
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media
contacts...
For
more information about the state of poverty in America, Poverty
in America Awareness Month or the Catholic Campaign for Human
Development, contact:
Barbara
Stephenson
Director of Communications
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
(202) 541-3364 or
(email)
Or
visit the Catholic
Campaign for Human Development web site.
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