Tagged With "Virginia"

Resilience Week had to live up to its name. Virginia’s recognition of resilience-building efforts, originated by the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) and planned in collaboration with TICNs across the state, was set for May 3-9, 2020. Then COVID-19 came. A work group of GRTICN members collaborated with businesses, movie theaters, libraries, schools, local government agencies and non-profit organizations to swiftly pivot their plans to take place virtually: story...

The Virginia Rent Relief program is really trying to get the word out how it can provide rental assistance (and more) for households within 80% Area Median Income, and with rents within 150% of Fair Market Rent. This program is helping a lot of people and the best news is – you DO NOT have to be behind on rent to be eligible! Also, anyone with a housing subsidy is automatically eligible for up to 18 months of assistance! We are sending this information out to our networks to share so it can...

Join HRTICN as we celebrate Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week (RTRW), a virtual conference hosted by Voices for Virginia’s Children that promotes the reckoning of Virginia’s past to reconcile our present and future. RTRW is an awareness week aimed at empowering marginalized communities to promote healing, reconciliation, and justice for children and families. This year, more than 57 organizations, executives, policymakers, advocates, and activists from around the commonwealth presenting...