CCT News

SummerSHARE in Full Swing

For the third year in a row there’s a city-wide effort to bring donations into Charlotte-area nonprofits during the month of July. Summer is a time of high need at many nonprofits, including CCT, and yet we see a lull in charitable giving during these same months. The SummerSHARE campaign seeks to remedy that by encouraging Charlotte residents to give! Organized by SHARECharlotte, presented by Bank of America, and sponsored by Mecklenburg County, SummerSHARECLT runs July 10-21. CCT is one of more than 100 participating nonprofits. Each nonprofit is asked to highlight one item of great need. For us, that item is a backpack!

As you know, CCT’s Families Doing Time program serves families and children impacted by incarceration. Many of these families experience great financial strain due the incarceration of a loved one. For these families, school supplies, including backpacks, are a major burden. Each year, CCT seeks to lift this burden by providing our client families with necessary school supplies. We’re asking our supporters to give back to the community by giving a backpack!

You can purchase backpacks directly in our “Give Shop” online, or?give a monetary donation.

To learn more about our SummerSHARE efforts, visit:?www.centerforcommunitytransitions.org/summershare17

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The Cost of Parental Incarceration

by guest blogger, Nicholas Perry, CCT Intern

If you asked me a week ago about the financial struggles of a family with an incarcerated parent, I?d have brought up the lost income of the family member imprisoned or maybe the lack of job prospects upon release. 2.3 million children in the United States have an incarcerated parent and face the realities of a damaged financial present and future. Research clearly shows that having a parent in jail can pull a child into poverty or worsen the situation for one already impoverished. As I dug into the topic, I was shocked to learn that when it comes to financial burden, the loss of the incarcerated person?s income is only the tip of the iceberg. Other costs associated with having a loved one in jail include ?legal costs, costs of staying in contact with the incarcerated person, and lost income of the child decades down the road. For a child having a parent incarcerated during their formative years, financial stability is threatened both in the short term,and in their long term future, through the hindrance of their own opportunities for success.?<keep reading>

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At CCT we rely on generous donors on you to provide the resources we need. Thank you to everyone who donated in the month of June.

Jill Blumenthal
Myra Clark
Morrison Creech
John Garver
Alicia Gaul
JoAnn Germen
Robert Henderson
Janine Lafferty
Audra Mitchell Atkinson
Jeanne R. Ross
Blaine Sanders
John Tate
Arlington Baptist Church
Bank Of America
Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
Katie & Tim Coff
St. Gabriel Catholic Church
St. Luke Catholic Church
The Leon Levine Foundation
United Way Of The Central Carolinas

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Immediate Needs

We need volunteers and drive organizers for our Back in Style event August 24th! Back in Style is an annual event at which CCT provides our client families with needed school supplies, haircuts, and a hot meal in preparation for sending children back to school! We expect 300 participants and we need YOUR help making it a success. To volunteer at the event or to host a school supply drive at your church or office, just click the big green button and fill out the form!

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Events

#SummerSHARECLT, July 10-21

CCT is participating in #SummerSHARE 2017.?Summer is the biggest time of need for many of our Charlotte nonprofits.

Visit our website for more details and to donate.

Family Day, July 29

Family Day will take place at the Center for Women on July 29th as part of Love Week with Elevation Church.

Back in Style, August 24th

CCT’s annual back-to-school Back in Style event will be held August 24th for CCT clients only. We will need volunteers and donations of school supplies and backpacks. If you are interested in volunteering or in organizing a school supply drive, please?fill out this interest form.?If you would like to attend as a client please contact Charis Blackmon at [email protected]?or 704-494-8601?ext. 13 to register.