Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America

KIDS COUNT: new data available

Check out the new KIDS COUNT resource from the Annie E. Casey Foundation

New Report from the National Governor's Association

Read the report by the NGA Center for Best Practices:

State Strategies to Reduce Child and Family Poverty

Tribute to Our Mother's House

Read the touching poem written by a resident of Our Mother's Hosue a nondenominational residential housing facility run by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Venice

Our Mother's House

You call it a program,
We call it home

You call it a program,
We call it a learning experience

It's not an end to the life we had,
It's a beginning to the one we can have

They stand behind you when you're standing tall
Bur even more, they help you up if you fall

They encourage you to change the ways of the apst
To make a better future for you and your baby that will last

So when you look at our program,
I hope you will see,
That this is the place that helped us succeed

OMH Resident, April 2008