{"id":10871,"date":"2016-01-19T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2016-01-19T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:14:00","slug":"allentown-promise-neighborhood-to-hold-second-annual-state-of-apn-address-1202016-atownartmuseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10871","title":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HOLD SECOND ANNUAL STATE OF APN ADDRESS 1\/20\/2016 @AtownArtMuseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><u>Community event will feature release of 2015 neighborhood resident survey results.<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Allentown Promise Neighborhood will host its second annual State of the APN event <span data-term=\"goog_1630885489\">on Wednesday<\/span> evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">APN Manager Amanda Raudenbush and PNLV Data Manager Ewuradjoa Dawson-Amoah will share with attendees the findings of this past summer&#8217;s APN Resident Survey. The door-to-door survey captured information about housing, education, healthcare, and other important quality of life issues affecting downtown neighborhood residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">The Resident Survey also gave residents the opportunity to talk to APN staff about the interests and concerns they have for the neighborhood, and\u00a0provided the organization with the information it needs to determine how best to assist residents moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Survey result highlights include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">74.1% of APN residents rent their homes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">41.9% of students participate in extracurricular activities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">63.7% of children under the age of 5 are not enrolled in an early childcare or preschool program<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">This free event is open to the general public to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Attendees will also be entered into a raffle to win donated prizes, including children\u2019s bicycles donated by Bikes for Bill, local restaurant gift certificates, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0January 20 from 5 \u2013 <span data-term=\"goog_1630885492\">6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Allentown Art Museum 31 N. 5<sup>th<\/sup> St., Allentown \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">WHO:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The nonprofit Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley unites partners, residents and leaders from various sectors to ensure the success of children from birth through career. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.promiseneighborhoodslv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.promiseneighborhoodslv.org\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information Provided By:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Tracey Werner, Blabbermouth Communications<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> tracey@blabbermouthcommunications.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/promise-lv.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}