Media Links: A Resource for Reporters

Introduction: Welcome to Media Links, a resource site for reporters seeking more information about issues related to low and moderate income families. The purpose of this site is to provide reporters with possible contacts within various state and national organizations that are current and informed in specific policy and issue areas. Below is a list of these organizations and their areas of focus. Click on the name of the organization for further contact information.

Category Links:
Asset Development: financial guidance, consumer protection, etc
Child Care
Community Development
Energy Assistance
Food Assistance/Hunger
Health Care
Housing/Homelessness
Income Support/Human Services: TANF, human services, etc
Workforce Development: employment, education, training, etc
Other Issues Important to Your Community: ex-offenders, legal
aid, etc
General Index

ASSET DEVELOPMENT:

Financial Guidance, Consumer Protection, etc

  • Woodstock Institute
    Issues: community economic development, foreclosure trends, predatory lending/mortgage fraud, credit union membership, payday lending, auto title lending, refund anticipation loans, access to banking services
  • Corporation for Enterprise Development
    Issues: asset building, Individual Development Accounts, micro enterprise, national/state statistics on asset ownership, manufactured housing market & wealth-building ownership
  • Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    Issues: affordable housing, health care, childcare, women & girls in poverty, asset building, welfare

    CHILD CARE

    *State Level*
  • Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition
    Issues: health care, public health insurance programs
  • Illinois Action for Children
    Issues: early care & education (preK & child care), welfare reform (as relates to young children), access to health insurance for child care workforce/ low-income families, state legislative process, well-being of young children (product safety, etc)
  • Illinois Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (INCCRRA)
    Issues:INCCRRA's programs and services for early care professionals
  • The Night Ministry
    Issues: homeless and at-risk youth (including LGBTQ and pregnant and parenting), homeless adults, street outreach, healthcare for underserved populations, Rapid HIV testing, and the importance of volunteers to non-profits.

    *National Level*
  • Ounce of Prevention Fund
    Issues: child care
  • National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health)
    Issues: child poverty, low-wage workers & their families, family economic security, early care & learning issues, healthy child development
  • Center for Law and Social Policy
    Issues: child care & early education, child support & fathers, child welfare, childbearing & pregnancy prevention, civil legal assistance, couples & marriage policy, disconnected youth, global social policy, postsecondary education & training, prisoner re-entry, equal justice, welfare policy, work-life, workforce development & transitional jobs
  • Coalition on Human Needs
    Issues: Federal budget issues of concern to low-income people – health, housing, nutrition, education and training, and other services for low-income people. Implications of federal revenue choices (tax cuts; who benefits). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, child care, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other assistance.

    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  • Chicago Rehab Network
    Issues: community development, affordable housing, nonprofit sector & civil society
  • Woodstock Institute
    Issues: community economic development, foreclosure trends, predatory lending/mortgage fraud, credit union membership, payday lending, auto title lending, refund anticipation loans, access to banking services

    ENERGY ASSISTANCE

  • Illinois Community Action Association
    Issues: low-income energy, food security, housing, homelessness

    FOOD ASSISTANCE/HUNGER

  • Illinois Community Action Association
    Issues: low-income energy, food security, housing, homelessness
  • Coalition on Human Needs
    Issues: Federal budget issues of concern to low-income people – health, housing, nutrition, education and training, and other services for low-income people. Implications of federal revenue choices (tax cuts; who benefits). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, child care, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other assistance.

    HEALTH CARE

  • Citizen Action Illinois (Healthy Illinois campaign)
    Issues: health care
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research
    Issues: U.S. labor markets & social policy (family & work), health care/health insurance coverage, mothers & employment, low-wage workers, government programs (Medicaid, child care)
  • Health and Disability Advocates
    Issues: Medicare, Medicaid
  • Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    Issues: affordable housing, health care, childcare, women & girls in poverty, asset building, welfare
  • The Night Ministry
    Issues: homeless and at-risk youth (including LGBTQ and pregnant and parenting), homeless adults, street outreach, healthcare for underserved populations, Rapid HIV testing, and the importance of volunteers to non-profits.

    HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS

    *State Level*
  • Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
    Issues: homelessness, affordable housing, youth homelessness, ex-offender (women) re-entry and job training.
  • Illinois Community Action Association
    Issues: low-income energy, food security, housing, homelessness
  • Chicago Rehab Network
    Issues: community development, affordable housing, nonprofit sector & civil society
  • Housing Action Illinois
    Issues: affordable housing, homelessness
  • Woodstock Institute
    Issues: community economic development, foreclosure trends, predatory lending/mortgage fraud, credit union membership, payday lending, auto title lending, refund anticipation loans, access to banking services
  • Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing
    Issues: affordable housing
  • The Night Ministry
    Issues: homeless and at-risk youth (including LGBTQ and pregnant and parenting), homeless adults, street outreach, healthcare for underserved populations, Rapid HIV testing, and the importance of volunteers to non-profits.

    *National Level*
  • Corporation for Enterprise Development
    Issues: manufactured housing market & wealth-building ownership asset building, Individual Development Accounts, micro enterprise, national/state statistics on asset ownership
  • Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    Issues: affordable housing, health care, childcare, women & girls in poverty, asset building, welfare
  • Coalition on Human Needs
    Issues: Federal budget issues of concern to low-income people – health, housing, nutrition, education and training, and other services for low-income people. Implications of federal revenue choices (tax cuts; who benefits). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, child care, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other assistance.

    INCOME SUPPORTS/HUMAN SERVICES:

    TANF, Human Services, etc

    *State Level*
  • Chicago Jobs Council
    Issues: TANF, TANF regulations/work requirements, job preparation/training for low-skilled/low-wage workers, education/skills needed for high-growth jobs, relationship of poverty, work & education, Workforce Investment Act/System, federal budget priorities

    *National Level*
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research
    Issues: U.S. labor markets & social policy (family & work), health care/health insurance coverage, mothers & employment, low-wage workers & upward mobility, government programs (Medicaid, child care)
  • National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health)
    Issues: child poverty, low-wage workers & their families, family economic security, early care & learning issues, healthy child development
  • Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    Issues: affordable housing, health care, childcare, women & girls in poverty, asset building, welfare
  • Center for Law and Social Policy
    Issues: welfare, policy, prisoner re-entry, equal justice, child care & early education, child support & fathers, child welfare, childbearing & pregnancy prevention, civil legal assistance, couples & marriage policy, disconnected youth, postsecondary education & training, work-life, workforce development & transitional jobs
  • Coalition on Human Needs
    Issues: Federal budget issues of concern to low-income people – health, housing, nutrition, education and training, and other services for low-income people. Implications of federal revenue choices (tax cuts; who benefits). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, child care, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other assistance.

    WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT:

    Employment, Education, Training, etc

    *State Level*
  • Chicago Jobs Council
    Issues: job preparation/training for low-skilled/low-wage workers, education/skills needed for high-growth jobs, relationship of poverty, work & education, Workforce Investment Act/System, TANF, Federal budget priorities

    *National Level*
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research
    Issues: U.S. labor markets & social policy (family & work), low-wage workers & upward mobility, health care/health insurance coverage, mothers & employment, government programs (Medicaid, child care)
  • National Employment Law Project
    Issues: unemployment insurance, minimum wage, overtime, rights/abuses of workers, retraining programs
  • Women Employed
    Issues: higher education, low-wage work, labor issues, employment
  • Center for Law and Social Policy
    Issues: prisoner re-entry, equal justice, child care & early education, child support & fathers, child welfare, childbearing & pregnancy prevention, civil legal assistance, couples & marriage policy, disconnected youth, postsecondary education & training, welfare policy, work-life, workforce development & transitional jobs
  • The Workforce Alliance
    Issues: access by low-income, dislocated/incumbent workers to education & training services

    OTHER ISSUES IMPORTANT TO YOUR COMMUNITY:

    Ex-Offenders, Legal Aid, etc

  • Center for Law and Social Policy
    Issues: prisoner re-entry, equal justice, child care & early education, child support & fathers, child welfare, childbearing & pregnancy prevention, civil legal assistance, couples & marriage policy, disconnected youth, postsecondary education & training, welfare policy, work-life, workforce development & transitional jobs
  • Chicago Jobs Council
    Issues: ex-offender legislation, job preparation/training for low-skilled, low-wage workers, education/skills needed for high-growth jobs, relationships of poverty, work and education, Workforce Investment Act/System, TANF, federal budget priorities
  • Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights/National Transitional Jobs Network
    Issues: city, state and federal policy and initiatives affecting Transitional Job programs, program design and implementation, ex-offender re-entry, at-risk youth services, national trends, outcomes and evaluations of TJ programs
  • The Night Ministry
    Issues: street outreach, the importance of volunteers to non-profits, homeless and at-risk youth (including LGBTQ and pregnant and parenting), homeless adults, healthcare for underserved populations and Rapid HIV testing

     

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