PORTSMOUTH Citing “programmatic and operational reasons, a regional administrator says Portsmouth’s Head Start classroom is discontinuing its services in September.
Overseen by Southern New Hampshire Services, one of five Community Action Partnership agencies in the state, Child Development Director Sarah Vanderhoof said the “difficult decision” to cut Head Start operations from the city came after “thoughtful consideration.”
“This has been something we have been headed toward over the course of a number of years as the demographics in Portsmouth have shifted,” she said.
A federal program formed in accordance with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” initiative in 1965, Head Start offers an educational framework to children aged 3-5 who come from low-income backgrounds. The free, federally-funded preschool child development program is “designed to help children and their families prepare the skills needed for kindergarten,” SNHS says.
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Kevin and Zoey Martin stand outside their apartment on Kennard Road in Manchester, NH. Courtesy Photo
MANCHESTER, NH – Last Spring Zoey Martin looked out her window and saw surveyors taking measurements in her Kennard Road apartment complex and she knew that was not a good sign.
The past year was not a good one for Martin. Her husband was hospitalized five times during the year, she aggravated an old injury and had to stop working in September, and the cherry on top was a notice from her landlord that her rent was going up from $1,274 a month to $1,510.
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• Feb 16, 2021
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Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.
Renters in line for more relief
Published: 2/15/2021 7:32:28 AM
Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.