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Family Centered Services of CT welcomes Mike Vezzoli, ADP Human Capital Management Consultant as our newest member of the Board.  Mike is a graduate of Providence College where he was a member of the swim team. Mike has a passion for volunteering and serving the community, as a member of the Family CT Board of Directors he will serve on the Development Committee where he will lend his expertise in digital marketing and sales.  Mike is and avid NY Giants fan and movie buff.

During the cold winter months, low-income Valley residents can apply for home heating assistance atTEAM, Inc., which has been helping families become financially stable since 1965. Read more in this week's #InspirationMonday: http://ow.ly/7M68308YgbV

ECDC is looking for sponsors for our upcoming premiere of

"If You Knew You Then"

March 31, April 1, 7, 8

shows at 7pm & 9pm 

Lyric Hall | 827 Whalley Ave 

New Haven

Tickets $25 pre-sale $30 door

More about the work HERE

WHY SPONSOR OUR PREMIERE? 

1) "If You Knew You Then" is an original ECDC production featuring 6 dancers in new choreography inspired by adolescent themes. The work has a lot of feeling and a lot of action!

2) ECDC’s audience is hip, active, involved, and interconnected.

3) Sponsorship will provide visibility for your organization with ECDC’s audience, supporters and community. 

Click HERE to find out how you can sponsor ECDC!

WHY SPONSOR ECDC? 

ECDC’s Mission: 

Elm City Dance Collective is a New Haven based organization that provides a platform for an experiential and collaborative approach to dance creation, education and performance. 

Who We Are and What We Do: 

ECDC is a 501(c)3 charitable arts organization that contributes to a thriving arts community in New Haven by creating original dance productions, as well as offering dance performance opportunities, classes, and workshops. To learn more about us, please visit www.elmcitydance.org. 

St. Martin de Porres Academy opened its doors twelve years ago with the promise of giving life-changing opportunities to disadvantaged kids. That promise is being fulfilled as the first graduates are now in college making dean’s lists and winning awards at places such as Villanova, Fairfield, St. Lawrence and Princeton. One former student, a college senior, already has a job offer in engineering.

“I’ve watched these kids develop since they were nine-year-olds. It’s been very special to share this journey with them and see them blossom,” says Allison Rivera, the Academy’s president and a founding teacher. Continue reading here.

Staff members Amie Melillo and Sabine Romsaint of the Family Based Recovery Program and Raycean Wright and Shannon Ryan of the Teen Outreach Program met with State Senators and Representatives to enlist their support of Family Centered Services of CT at the Legislative regional lobby day. Non-profit organizations from across CT met with their representatives to discuss the impact that state cuts will make to their programs and to encourage their support.

Family CT will be celebrating a milestone this year, our 40th anniversary. Family CT has been a leader in providing free home-based parenting education, domestic violence counseling and care coordination for children with special health care needs. This past year we reached over 1800 families a 12% increase over 2015 and the need continues to grow. It is because our services are free and home-based that we can reach many under-served families who would not be able to accept services otherwise.

The Mary Wade, is a nonprofit senior care community located in New Haven.  We were founded, and continue serving the community, in our same location 150 years ago, and have developed into a full continuum of senior care services, that includes a Skilled Nursing Center, Residential Care Home, Adult Day Center, Home Care, Community Navigator, Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, Primary Care and a transportation program, serving the senior population and their families in the Greater New Haven Region.

We are writing you today in anticipation of potential federal legislation that will fundamentally change the structure of the Medicaid program.  We are fearful of these changes and are opposing them at the federal level because we fear that changing Medicaid to a block grant or per capita cap would have a substantial negative affect on access to quality medical care and long-term services and supports for older adults and other vulnerable populations here in Connecticut.

Medicaid is the most important financial resource available for families who need help covering the cost of long-term services and supports, whether in their homes and communities or in nursing homes. Medicaid has become the default payer for long-term services and supports because there are no significant alternative sources of payment, other than out-of-pocket.  Eighty percent (80%) of our residents and clients rely on the Medicaid program to pay for their care and services both in the nursing home and through our system of home and community based services.

While we are extremely fearful of the potential change to the structure of the program and strongly oppose the block grant concept, our mission at Mary Wade is to provide high quality medical care, social programs, and residential services to those in need and we are committed to doing so.

Therefore we are reaching out to you today to ask you to consider us a partner and a resource to you should we be faced with the need to redesign our current Medicaid program.

We want to work together with our state legislators, state agencies, and our community partners to ensure that the elderly living in our community can continue to count on the Medicaid program to support the care, services and supports that they so desperately need.

I welcome you to join me at the Mary Wade campus, for a conversation regarding these potential changes.   I can be reached at my direct line at 203.672.7810 or by email message at dhunter@marywade.org. 

David V. Hunter, President & CEO 

February 1, 2017