By Cara Rosner March 29, 2021 New Haven Community Health Worker (CHW) Katia Astudillo helps dozens of her clients navigate the logistics of getting vaccinated and connects them with other health services. She even helps them find rental assistance. In and around New London, CHW Lizbeth Polo-Smith hands out flyers about COVID-19 safety and vaccinations at churches,......
Janet Moran, SCSU MSW Student, REACH CHW Fellow and Morgan Horbal, SCSU MSW Student, REACH CHW Fellow...
20 Towns. 36 Hours. 400+ Nonprofits The Great Give, Greater New Haven’s largest, online community-wide giving event, has officially started! Visit our Prizes page above to see all the matching funds and prize incentives provided by the event’s sponsors. Donate to your favorite nonprofits serving Greater New Haven, then find new ones to help. Every......
In early February, PA-NH launched a COVID-19 vaccine “trusted messenger” initiative that aims to expand COVID vaccination awareness, education, and uptake in communities of color. We are also using our established patient navigation model to connect individuals with COVID vaccine appointments and address access barriers. THANK YOU to the Connecticut Health Foundation, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, and Tufts Health Plan......
Dear Project Access community, What a difference a single year makes. During this time last year, the state of Connecticut, and the rest of the world for that matter, had just begun the process of shutting down non-essential services due to the increasing dangers of the virus that we’d come to know as COVID-19. Just one year ago—none......
Rabbi Herbert Brockman Herbert “Herb” Brockman is Rabbi Emeritus at Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden. Herb believes his work is not only caring for the spiritual health of the congregation but the community as a whole. Herb has taught at the Yale Divinity School and is involved in building interfaith and interracial relations in the......
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith discusses her role overseeing President Biden’s coronavirus equity task force and the challenge of tackling disparities in the pandemic. WASHINGTON — President Biden has said repeatedly that racial equity will be at the core of his coronavirus response. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith is in charge of making that happen. A......