#SpotlightOnCLT: City Startup Labs
This article was edited for length. Interview by Christine Edwards.
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#SpotlightOnCLT: Changed Choices
Written by Amy Andrews, Photograph by Lindsay Kappius
#SpotlightOnCLT: Community Culinary School of Charlotte
Written by Eden Estabrook; Photo Credit: Lindsay Kappius
Pots banging. Knives chopping. The smell of baked goods wafting through the air. As I walked through Community Culinary School of Charlotte’s (CCSC) location at 9315-D Monroe Road, the kitchen was alive with the sights, smells, and sounds of students and teachers preparing for the opening of the School’s Cafe in a couple of hours.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Center for Community Transitions
Saichelle McNeill believes in second chances. The owner of Washroom Laundry in Charlotte has found her newest employee through LifeWorks!, an employment program that helps people with criminal records reach their professional goals.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Incarceration, Restoration, and Reentry
Over 10,000 returning citizens are released from America’s state and federal prisons every week and land back in their communities often without much support or direction.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Beatties Ford Vocational Trade Center
Wrtitten by Emiene Wright
When Charlotte was ranked last in the nation for upward mobility, Frances Hall looked around the Beatties Ford corridor and felt compelled to action. The licensed mental health counselor saw an unaddressed correlation between stress and economic stability. So in 2016 she founded the Beatties Ford Vocational Trade Center, the first mental health agency and Black-owned trade school in Charlotte.
#SpotlightOnCLT: EmpowHERment
The future of leadership is female, and EmpowHERment is here to help
Written by Emiene Wright
Study after study has shown strong female leadership improves the status of families and lifts entire communities (The World Bank, Peterson Institute, MSCI World
#SpotlightOnCLT: My Sister's House
A True Sister’s Keeper: My Sister’s House Transitional Living Program
Written by Perrine DeShieldHomelessness effects every city in America and unfortunately, Charlotte is no different. Currently, the face of homelessness in the Queen City has evolved and now features the faces of many women. My Sister’s House Transitional Living Program is giving much-needed support for women in our community who may be facing sudden unemployment, drug abuse, recent release from incarceration, domestic violence or untreated mental health issues.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Fathers United, Inc.
“Dead beat dad” is a common stereotype, and I, admittedly, often assumed this was a choice, but what I’ve recently learned is sometimes it’s for lack of emotional or financial resources that a father is not able to fight for partial custody of a child.
