Volume 4

Issue 8

LINKS, RESOURCES, & OPPORTUNITIES FOR GHA RESIDENTS

Greensboro Housing Authority is committed to helping our residents build life success. We are also committed to sharing opportunities that may contribute to furthering life success. Scroll down to see opportunities through GHA and our partners!

Please take a look at the previous issues of Life Success Opportunities Emails.

Some of the opportunities featured may still be relevant.

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Click the image above for the registration link.

You Can Vote (YCV) trains and mobilizes volunteers to educate, register, and empower all North Carolina citizens to cast their ballots successfully.

Summer Camp registration begins March 1, except for Camp Joy, which begins registration March 11. Parks and Recreation is now accepting applications for more than 100 summer part-time job openings.

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OPPORTUNITIES FROM GHA:

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS) is a voluntary program for households enrolled in Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, and Project-Based Voucher programs to help them increase their earnings and build financial capability and assets.

If you are interested in joining the Family Self-Sufficiency program, please click the image above.

Please watch this video for a brief explanation of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program.

*Click the images above to sign up and for more information

If you are a renter and in need of rental and/or utility assistance, the following agencies may be able to assist you. 

• Guilford County Department of Social Services
• Energy Assistance Program – (heating/cooling and water assistance) 336-641-3000
• Apply online here
• Greensboro Urban Ministry (utility assistance: water, power, and gas)
• Greensboro residents only - 336-271-5959
• United Way 211
• Faith Action International House
• (Refugee Rental Assistance program) - 336-379-0037
• Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP)
• (housing expenses/utilities) – 336-691-5780

Everyone is invited to the UNCG Science Everywhere Festival on the UNCG campus. Admission and parking in the McIver Parking Deck are free. The Festival will have over 50 hands-on activities, music and music science, an electron microscope art display, an opportunity to visit research labs of federally-funded projects, the new nursing building, and the new esports arena, and much more. 

UNCG Campus

1400 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC 27412

April 13, 2024

12 p.m. - 4 p.m.

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Calling all young creatives aged 8-17 to the stage of imagination and storytelling at TAB Arts Center's After School Film Camp, starring on Fridays and Saturdays! This is your child's ticket to the thrilling world of filmmaking, where ideas ignite and dreams take flight. The camp is $50 a month.



DATE AND TIME

Fri, February 02, 2024 – Sat, June 01, 2024

4:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

LOCATION

Peeler Recreation Center

1300 Sykes Ave

Greensboro, NC 27405

United States

***GHA residents pay a $27.00 registration fee and can attend for free. You must fill out the membership application and submit a copy of your lease.***

Non-GHA residents (14 and up) attend for $10/month after the $27 registration fee.

Do you want to work for Greensboro Parks and Recreation this summer? They are hiring lifeguards, camp counselors, pool techs, and more.

Click here for more information.

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Each household may receive FOUR FREE at-⁠home COVID-19 tests this fall.

**Click the image above to order your free tests.

“You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain."

- John Maxwell