On May 4, 2022, eight non-profit organizations with missions to address housing insecurity, food insecurity, careers services, youth educational programs connected with Black home-insecure mothers navigating their children’s education, employment, and housing insecurity at Freedom Communities in Charlotte, NC.
We thank the the UNC Charlotte Women + Girls Research Initiative and the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the Center for the Study of the New South, through UNC Charlotte’s Program in Interdisciplinary Studies for funding the Supporting Black Home-Insecure Mothers Summit.
For the greater project, we gathered and combined community efforts across Charlotte centering on Black women’s housing and educational conditions to investigate what is needed to stabilize their situations and build options for social mobility
Here is a list of community resources. Click on the link for their webpage.