Please Join GWP for a Special Program during National Anti-Poverty Week:
Moving Families from Poverty to Prosperity, from Statistics to Solutions
Presented by the Women and Girls Foundation and the Allegheny County Department for Human Services.
Seventy-two percent of Pittsburgh households living in poverty are single mother households. The Women & Girls Foundation has shared these sad statistics with GWP members several times over the last dozen years via their "Status of Women in PA and Pittsburgh MSA" reports. As poverty rates for single mothers and their children remained stubbornly high, WGF began a two-year research project to 1) identify the barriers to economic security for single mothers in our region, and 2) promote opportunities for our philanthropic community to collaborate to spur systemic change to decrease poverty rates.
Please join Erin Dalton and Heather Arnet, along with staff from DHS and WGF, as they present this new research. The presentation will include maps of Allegheny County highlighting the areas of greatest concentration of moms and kids in need, as well as where childcare centers, transportation lines, and workforce development training sites are located in relationship to these women. WGF and DHS will also present in-depth details on needs and services in neighborhoods that have experienced recent focus from GWP members (such as Homewood, Larimer and the North Side). The presentation will also include findings from an in-person survey of residents in over 26 neighborhood family support centers.
Join WGF, DHS and GWP to discuss how partners in community, philanthropy, and government can find ways to put women at the center of local economic development and poverty reduction efforts.
Light continental breakfast will be served.