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ConnectiCare Grants Awarded
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Business New Haven
08/18/2003
By: BNH
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FARMINGTON — ConnectiCare has awarded grants to four non-profit community-based organizations that provide critical outreach and vital services to local residents in need. The grants are awarded annually reflecting the company’s corporate commitment to improving the health status of the underserved and other needy residents of Connecticut and western Massachusetts. The 2003 recipient agencies include:
o Community Dining Room of Branford, which provides hot nutritious meals 365 days a year. Its visitation and home delivery program serves those unable to access the dining room due to surgery, illness or age-related frailty. Helping to mitigate isolation and loneliness, the Community Dining Room works to improve the general health, nutrition and quality of life for shoreline residents, in some cases delaying or avoiding entry into nursing homes. It also assures disadvantaged children access to quality, nutritious foods with the goal of improving their general health and self esteem.
o The George Washington Carver Community Center of Norwalk provides programs for minority and low-income families with special attention to children at risk. The Carver Center serves as a key site for social services along with recreational and educational resources for poor, unemployed and/or minority individuals in greater Norwalk. The Carver Center works toward closing the ethnic and racial health gap through its Student Health Awareness Resources and Education (SHARE) health education program. The SHARE program provides nutritional counseling, fitness sessions, and classes on self-esteem and good decision-making and lifestyle skills for children and young adults.
o The Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of Western New England, based in Springfield, Mass., provides compassionate care to patients and families in the home setting. ConnectiCare’s grant dollars will help support the continuation of the VNA’s Alzheimer’s Program, which not only cares for vulnerable patients in their homes, but also gives family members respite from the demands of caring for a loved one with this disease. None of the services provided by VNA’s Alzheimer’s Program are covered by insurance, and many families are not in a position to pay. ConnectiCare’s grant will help the VNA sustain the Alzheimer’s Program services at no cost to these individuals.
o Hartford’s Chrysalis Center is located in an inner-city neighborhood and provides services to individuals with a multitude of physical health-care and mental-health needs, which may be exacerbated by homelessness, poverty, and lack of linkage to local community and health-care resources. ConnectiCare’s grant will fund comprehensive health education focused on case management coordination, prevention and recovery oriented services such as medication monitoring. These activities promote the health and well being of individuals and increase their independence and self esteem to transition successfully back into the community.
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