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The Global IFS Newsletter 7/2020 is out!
The IFS Global newsletter is out! We have gathered information on IFS members worldwide. Please follow the link below for an insight into the IFS members activities during and after COVID-19 and more! IFS Global Newsletter 7/2020
“Get to know your board members” series: Susan Matloff-Nieves
In this "Get to know your board members" series, we have interviewed the IFS board member and Deputy Executive Director – Youth and Aging Services, Susan Matloff-Nieves of Goddard Riverside in New York, USA. Where do you work and what is your...
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park Brooklyn’s response to COVID-19
Shared by Siobhan O'Flaherty, Development Assistant - Center For Family Life Center for Family Life provides comprehensive, neighbourhood-based social services in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. We partner with the community to provide access to resources,...
COVID-19 restrictions easing, but a long-term recovery strategy is required
More than two weeks have passed since Australia’s last confirmed coronavirus death. Restrictions are easing each week, children are back at school, cafes and restaurants are serving customers again, businesses are reopening and people are gradually...
CORONAVIRUS IN NIGERIA: THE IMPACT OF UMUEBU NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE
By Sunday Ofili Ibobor, Umuebu Neighborhood House (UNH), Umuebu, Delta State, Nigeria The first confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID 19) was reported on 27 February 2020. Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report a confirmed...
IFS middle managers conversation about finding balance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hello Project Directors and program coordinators! Join us for a conversation about finding balance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Meet with other settlement house colleagues from around the world to share practices and strategies. This meeting will...
New Online Courses on Returning to Work as COVID-19 Risks Decrease
The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities is offering the OpenSesame learning catalog, Returning to the Workforce: Preparing for the New Normal, to all users for free via the Alliance Learning Community through June 14. As states begin to...
Sharing is caring webinar – Staying close while social distancing
A social talk with an international perspective where actors from Europe, the United States and Australia share best practice on how we keep contact with our societies’ most vulnerable during the pandemic. The webinar will be organised by...
Support message to the IFS members in the USA and all Human Rights defenders.
Dear sisters and brothers We are watching the news from the USA in the grip of growing anxiety. How is it possible that once again, the old wounds of structural racism and discrimination are open? And how is it possible that the police forces that...
United Neighborhood Houses of New York’s statement on Police Brutality and the murder of George Floyd
NEW YORK – May 29, 2020 – In response to the murder of George Floyd, UNH Executive Director Susan Stamler commented: George Floyd’s murder is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a deadly and familiar trend. The senseless killing of black...