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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hartford Action Plan on Infant Health Receives National Award for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives
HARTFORD, CT (January 29, 2003) -- The National Community Development Association (NCDA) honored the Hartford Action Plan on Infant Health, Inc. as a winner of the Audrey Nelson Award for community development achievement at an award luncheon on January 24, 2003, in Washington, DC. The Audrey
Nelson Award was established in 1987 to recognize exemplary and
innovative uses of CDBG funds to address the needs of low- and moderate-income
families, homes and neighborhoods. The award is named for Audrey Nelson, the
first Deputy Executive Secretary of NCDA. Nelson
grew up in an inner city Chicago neighborhood that was a target for
neighborhood-based community development efforts. Her commitment to neighborhood
community development and her drive to serve low-income people was cut short
when she died from cancer at the age of 29. The Hartford
Action Plan on Infant Health was one of six recipients of the award, out of over
550 cities across the U.S. The other recipients were Rochester, NY; Orlando, FL;
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; LA County and Portland, OR. The
Action Plan was nominated for the award by the city's Department of Grants
Management, which administers the CDBG program for Hartford. Mayor Eddie Perez
and Action Plan CEO Flora Parisky accepted the award at the Washington event. The
award recognized the Action Plan’s use of Community Development Block Grant
funds in leveraging other funding to implement teen pregnancy prevention
programs in Hartford. Community
Development Block Grant funds support the entire Breaking the Cycle
community-wide initiative. Hartford
Action Plan programs are also supported by a variety of public and
private funding sources, including corporate contributions from Aetna,
MassMutual, CIGNA, The Hartford, and Travelers/Citigroup.
NCDA is a national nonprofit organization comprised of more than 550 local governments across the country that administer federally-supported community and economic development, housing and human service programs, including programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), and the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) programs. For further information, contact NCDA at (202) 293-7587. For more information about the Hartford Action
Plan on Infant Health or the Breaking the Cycle initiative, call (860)
236-4872 or visit www.teenpregnancyhartford.org.
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