The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. This week: How one shelter is using language to help the homeless. Plus, discrepancies are found in one state’s program that provides mammograms to low-income women.
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Here’s this week’s news:
· The Charlotte Observer reports on the opening of The Mothers & Children Housing Ministry, a new facility that will be an emergency and transitional housing program for mothers with pre-adolescent children who are or are about to become homeless.
· An audit of a state program that provides mammograms to low-income women has revealed major discrepancies in the number of cases reported annually, as reported by the Associated Press.
· Spurred by a noticeable increase in domestic abuse of women in Monterey County, the Shelter Outreach Plus non-profit started a Spanish-speaking program that targets Latino domestic violence victims and homeless women, according to the Californian.
· In an op-ed in the Washington Times, Cheryl Wetzstein discusses the findings of a recent study on the effects of marriage support and relationship counseling on low-income, unwed parents, ultimately concluding that only the couples in the Building Strong Families (BSF) program in Oklahoma City saw benefits.
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