New Book Features City Connects as Prominent Approach to Addressing Educational Emergencies
The pandemic threw schools across the nation into crisis overnight. But for so many schools, this wasn’t the first time navigating an […]
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Who We Work With: The YMCA
Opportunities for students are just as important to their growth and development as access to basic needs services. The City Connects team […]
25th Anniversary: City Connects in Early Childhood Settings
Opportunity creates possibility. For students with an education, the possibilities are endless. But for students whose opportunities are limited by lack of […]
Celebrating 25 Years of City Connects: How It Began
The aphorism that “it takes a village to raise a child” resonates because of its fundamental truth. But how does a family […]
Springfield’s Superintendent talks about City Connects
Daniel J. Warwick grew up in Springfield, Mass. He was an educator in Springfield’s schools. And he had the sense that something […]
Children Are Resilient: A Letter to the Editor from Dr. Mary Walsh
An April 24 article in the Boston Globe tackled the challenges educators are dealing with in the third year of the pandemic, […]
A Video Tells Our Story
We’re excited about our new video. It’s an overview of how City Connects gets the right services to the right child at […]
Understanding Why City Connects Works
We’ve known that students who participate in City Connects during elementary school do well on middle school assessments of academic achievement. However, we […]
City Connects: A Promising Return on Investment
For years, economists have used the term “return on investment,” or ROI, to describe business profits. Invest, for example, $100, then […]
The Abell Report Looks at City Connects’ Approach to Student Success
We’re excited to announce that City Connects is featured in the October edition of the Abell Report. The report is published by […]