Mary Wade was proud to host a major discussion among providers and activist around the topic of Alzheimer's Disease, research and need for caregivers with Senator Chris Murphy and Connecticut Aging Commissioner Betsy Ritter:
http://wnpr.org/post/sen-murphy-backs-initiative-alzheimers-caregivers
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Green Fund now accepting grant applications for 2017 awards
The Greater New Haven Green Fund (GNHGF) promotes environmental quality and equity in the most environmentally distressed communities within the Greater New Haven area by providing local, small grants to reduce pollution and create a more sustainable future. The Fund is seeking grant proposals for creative community based initiatives that impact water and air pollution, as well as land conservation, sustainability, environmental education and youth leadership.
This year the Green Fund is particularly interested in encouraging small grants of a maximum amount of $3,000 from grassroots organizations and has carved out $18,000 of the total $48,000 to be used for this purpose; $10,000 for small grants and $8,000 for micro grants. These smaller grants can be used for mission support and organizational capacity building as well as other projects that fit the priority areas of the Fund.
The Green Fund will also be awarding $10,000 from the Community Benefits Agreement with the Public Services Enterprise Group, Inc. (PSEG) owner of the Harbor Power Plant in New Haven. The Fund seeks innovative proposals for activities that advance air quality initiatives in the areas of public education and outreach, public health studies, environmental justice and environmental analysis.
The deadline for 2017 grant applications is Thursday, January 12th at 4:00 p.m. Please check out the Greater New Haven Green Fund website at www.gnhgreenfund.org for information and the application forms. Go to Grants in the Navigation Bar then click on small and large grants to see the link to the application forms. You may download them from the website.
The New Haven Green Fund, Inc., a 501c(3) non-profit corporation was incorporated in 2006 and administered by an independent board representing both local expertise and the communities that comprise the Greater New Haven Water Pollution service area.
For more information contact: Greater New Haven Green Fund ℅ The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven // 70 Audubon St // New Haven, CT 06510 // 203-936-8136 // info@gnhgreenfund.org
The Office of Policy and Management (OPM) is accepting applications for the Nonprofit Grant Program (NGP). OPM is also accepting applications for the remaining funds for the Nonprofit Collaboration Incentive Grant Program (NCIP). The application deadline for consideration for this current round of funding is not later than 4:00 p.m. on January 23, 2017. The NGP will award Grants-in-aid to selected private, nonprofit health and human service organizations that are exempt under Section 501(c)(3) and receive funds from the State (including Medicaid) to provide direct health and human services to State agency clients. Applications involving a collaboration between two or more eligible nonprofit organizations may also be eligible for award for NGP or NCIP. Note: NCIP funds are for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations currently providing services in Connecticut. NCIP funds do not require that organizations receive funds from the State to provide direct health and human services to State agency clients.
http://www.ct.gov/opm/cwp/view.asp?a=3006&Q=383284&opmNav_GID=1386
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven is accepting applications for their Executive Director opening through December 15th. To learn more visit http://newhavenarts.org/2016/11/15/arts-council-seeks-executive-director/ ;
Last fall, middle school boys at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School learned the high kicks, spins, and quick dance moves of the Brazilian marital art Capoeira. The after-school workshop, offered by the Elm City Dance Collective and Connecticut Capoeira Center, was a hit with the students and welcomed by school faculty as an innovative way to engage boys.
“It was a pleasure to see the boys support and help each other gain confidence and learn about group interactions,” says Sylvia Petriccione, artistic coordinator at the school. “They needed to trust each other and work together as one unit. Their ability to focus and complete tasks improved with each workshop.” Continue reading.
At a local mental health clinic, all the patients were required to pass through a metal detector. Yet the clinicians and staff entered through a different set of doors with no security. After a series of training sessions provided by The Connecticut Women’s Consortium, clinic administrators came to realize this sent the wrong message to patients. Because trust is at the foundation of a successful patient-clinician relationship, the different set of rules potentially undermined the successful delivery of care.
“It was assuming the clients were more dangerous than the employees,” says Connecticut Women’s Consortium Executive Director Colette Anderson. “We shouldn’t assume one group more dangerous than other. We need to think about how we collaborate.”
For nearly two decades, the Hamden-based nonprofit has been at the forefront of transforming the way behavioral healthcare is delivered.Read more here.
The Community Foundation is highlighting different areas of nonprofit services offered throughout Greater New Haven.
Using giveGreater.org as the platform, The Foundation is asking the community to take “A Closer Look” each month at the issues that impact the health and wellbeing of Greater New Haven and the nonprofits that are working to address those issues.
November's focus is on the local nonprofits under the umbrella of Health and Wellness; specifically, those organizations that provide services to seniors. Check out the work of these awesome nonprofits.
“A Closer Look” runs through September 2017, excluding the months of May and December.
Anyone in CT interested in opportunities to make an impact on some of the state's most pressing social issues would love attending this event on November 9. SVP is a supremely talented/committed group of individuals from the business and social sector, bringing both their talent and treasure to engage in scaling some of the most promising social enterprises in the state. Great opportunity to meet a couple terrific folks from SVP, including Shaun Gagnon.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/svp-ct-young-partner-networking-event-tickets-28874753164
Yale University seeks applications from nonprofit and public sector agencies in the City of New Haven for the 2017 President's Public Service Fellowship. Since 1994, more than 700 Yale University undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students have contributed over 200,000 hours of community service to New Haven nonprofit and public sector agencies as President’s Public Service Fellows.
Each summer, the Fellowship places up to 35 student Fellows in full-time positions designed by community partners like you. Yale University pays the student Fellows directly for their full-time work during the summer.
You can consider a meaningful employment opportunity for the summer of 2017 that would benefit from the work of a Yale student. To apply to be a Fellowship site, you can obtain an Agency Application online at ppsf.yale.edu. A completed application should be submitted by email to karen.king@yale.edu no later than Monday, November 28, 2016.
Please note the actual number of placements is limited. Not all proposals will be chosen as potential sites to which students may apply, and not every placement will be filled.
We look forward to your application! Please feel free to contact Karen King with any questions you may have.
Karen King
Director, Yale University President's Public Service Fellowship
Yale University Office of New Haven and State Affairs
(203) 432-8412
Youth graduates of a Community Mediation facilitation workshop. Photo credit: Community Mediation.
Community Mediation Inc. started in 1980 as a neighborhood walk-in center in Fair Haven. Now located in Hamden, the organization has grown to provide a range of services to individuals and institutions. It offers conflict resolution sessions to workplaces, schools, neighbors, families, couples and faith organizations. It also trains teachers, case workers for at-risk youth and community members. Continue reading here.
David V. Hunter
October 25, 2016
I have been employed in health service for my entire career, first in the emergency medical response field and for the past 38 years I have worked in the post-acute, long term care and home and community-based services fields. I currently serve as president & chief executive officer for a nonprofit continuum of care organization in New Haven, Connecticut. This organizations provides post-acute and long term care, hospice care, assisted living, adult day health, primary care, outpatient care and transportation. I currently serve as a member of the board of directors of LeadingAge Connecticut, on an ethics committee for a Connecticut hospice care program, and I am past president of the board of directors of the Connecticut Coalition to Improve End of Life Care. I am a recipient of the Humanitarian Award from LeadingAge CT and the Distinguished Service Award for End of Life Care from the CT Coalition to Improve End of Life Care.
I am aware of the resolution adopted by the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates to consider changing the AMA’s long position against doctor-prescribed suicide to one of “neutrality”, and that the Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs will study this proposed change and provide recommendation to the House of Delegates in June, 2017.
The first hospice care center in the United States of America began in Branford, Connecticut. Since inception of hospice care services to the citizens of this State, hospice care services have grown to where these services are provided in all hospitals, many skilled nursing centers, and home-based hospice care services to individuals in the home setting. The growth of hospice and end of life care services in the health care field has advanced the treatment modalities which directly benefits people with terminal illness and their families. This is a direct benefit to individuals with terminal illness and their families. Most individuals suffering with illness fear the pain that is attributed with these illness, and many individuals suffer with depression as they move through the illness and dying process. The advances in palliative care and medicines have alleviated the suffering attributed to end of life illness. The reality is that anyone dying in discomfort that is not otherwise relievable, may legally today, in all 50 states, receive palliative care sedation. Everyone agrees that dying in pain is unacceptable, but nearly all pain is now treatable.
A fact supporting increase in utilization of benefits can be seen in the increase in seniors utilizing the Medicare Hospice Benefit in the USA. According to Kelly Vontran, of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), 20% of all Medicare Beneficiaries who died in 2000 utilized the Hospice Medicare Benefit and that number increased to 45% of all Medicare Beneficiaries in 2013. In addition, of those receiving Medicare Hospice Benefits those with Alzheimer’s disease were the majority of individuals receiving the Hospice Benefit, overtaking those with cancer.[1] This is an indication that more individuals are aware of and benefitting from this Hospice Care Benefit.
In my years of experience, a larger problem stems from the fact that our culture in America fails to identify with death as part of the life cycle, resulting in the lack of family discussion and the aversion to familiarize oneself with treatments and services afforded to this stage of life. Compounding this problem is the reluctance on the part of healthcare providers, including physicians, to talk about their patient’s end of life status. The result is a lack of knowledge and increase of misconceptions.
In addition to advances in medicines and treatments, we have seen the expansion of services to address the psycho-social dimension of the individual including bereavement services for those left behind. Often, this benefits the individual who fear burdening their families as they become sicker and/or disabled. Wanting to die because of depression is also treatable. It would be far more beneficial for associations such as the AMA to develop methods for educating the public about these services, and from a matter of policy this would be far more effective in population health.
The AMA’s principled opposition to physician assisted suicide has been a beacon in the face of the onset of Physician Assisted Suicide legislation. This is a major concern as we experience the increasing number of seniors in our society. The demographic, coupled with the tightening of financial resources has the potential of individuals dying prematurely in their dying process. This fact and reality might not be done overtly, but it is very possible that subliminal messages for a senior citizen who is sick to ‘do the right thing for the next generation’. It is also true doctors, what starts as an option soon becomes an expectation. Pressures will grow to make health care providers get involved in assisting suicide directly or by referral. It is for these reasons and others, that I urge members of the AMA’s House of Delegates to vote in favor of maintaining the position against Physician Assisted Suicide.
[1] Kelly Vontran of CMS, during presentation at LeadingAge PEAK Leadership Summit, Washington, DC, March 17, 2015
How do local residents rate their overall health? How safe do they feel in their neighborhoods? Are they satisfied with the region’s job opportunities? What is the availability of childcare? These and hundreds of other questions relating to wellbeing, economic opportunity and quality of life in the region are answered in the recently released Greater New Haven Community Index 2016.
Producers of Community Media invest themselves: Some to make-a-difference. For Community Media Day Oct 20th WPAA-TV is honored to announce the that local Producer Georgian Lussier is being recognized for her investment in informing her viewers as recipient of the Rika Welsh Award from the NorthEast Region Alliance for Community Media
LOCAL TV HOST WINS MEDIA AWARD FOR VALUE OF CONTENT
Georgian Lussier, a Wallingford resident, will be traveling to Portland Maine Oct 22nd to accept the Alliance for Community Media Rika Welsh Award given to community television producers who are successfully empowering the community they have chosen to serve; achieving the goal of creating make-a-difference community television.
The committee said “We picked Georgian for the impact her program "MidLife Matters" has on her guests, their causes and the community at-large”. With a mix of wisdom and wit, she discovers stories which are shared in conversation as TV. Georgian’s story is representative of those she uncovers about aging well. Like her guest she is between age 40 and 75. Her adventure in cultivating impactful stories began in midlife. She is significantly involved in the program production. Each 30 minutes segment requires an equivalent number of hours to produce from guest identification, prep, scheduling, outlining, studio work and then video editing.
The executive director at the station where MidLife Matters is produced says “I have had the privilege to meet all Georgian's guests and hear first-hand how the experience of discovering their own story was unexpectedly transforming.
Georgian has produced her show "MidLife Matters" for the past 3 and half years. It has included a variety of journey stories as well as specific content about various topics such as women's health, employment, loss, addiction, care giving, continuing education, veterans, and so much more. She has made connections with all her guests and has helped to get their messages out to the community.
Culling from her experiences she has written 5 Ways to Grow after 5O available on Amazon. She is also a workshop presenter developing a program called Advice to Your Younger Self: Celebrate Your Story which provides insight for turning adversity into advocacy, finding your inside voice and networking.
Georgian is a Human Resource professional committed to helping women get the most out of midlife personally and professionally. Programs can be seen on WPAA-TV in Wallingford and on YouTube.
Are you a good listener who enjoys being with other people? Have you been looking for a way to have an impact on someone else’s life? If so, please consider becoming a volunteer for Regional Hospice and Home Care at Smilow Cancer Hospital. Three days of training will be provided in New Haven on 10/25-10/27 from 9-5 (lunch is included). After training, the volunteer’s schedule is flexible.
Interested applicants should complete a volunteer application on our website: https://RegionalHospiceCT.org/volunteer and contact Mary Beth Hickey (MHickey@RegionalHospiceCT.org / 203-702-7415). Thank you for your consideration!
Please take a few minutes now to help The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven understand the impact of recent state budget cuts on your organization and to inform our work ahead.
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United Way of Greater New Haven
JOB TITLE: Communications Manager
DEPARTMENT: Communications
REPORTS TO: Communications Director
SUMMARY
United Way of Greater New Haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to Greater New Haven’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Education, Health, and Financial Stability. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. The Communications Manager is responsible for the success of projects as assigned in the areas of communications, administrative, website, social media, materials production, media relations, resource development, and community engagement.
SKILLS/CHARACTERISTICS
Effective communicator
Team player
Creative
Self starter
Tech savvy
Possess strong people skills
Ability to read an audience
Ability to persuade others to take action
COMMUNICATIONS
Plan, develop, and implement integrated marketing strategies, creative designs, and marketing efforts, both internally and externally
Translate complex community challenges and United Way solutions into relatable and compelling messages, stories, print and digital collateral to help connect stakeholders with United Way’s mission and impact
Manage all UWGNH contact lists
Identify and implement strategies to grow targeted communications
Produce and review communications content
Manage communications schedule and data
Gather and develop stories for use in marketing initiatives
Work with Communications Director and Workplace Campaigns Director to brainstorm yearly campaign theme and strategically brand and distribute cohesive campaign messaging
Assist in approving and managing contractors working for the Communications Department
Proofread and copyedit all communications for accuracy and visual appeal
ADMINISTRATIVE
Track communications expenses and work with the Communications Department to develop the Communications Department budget each fiscal year
Report monthly on the current balance of the Communications Department budget
Make recommendations on cost saving opportunities
Process purchase orders for the Communications Department
Work with Finance Department to communicate and fulfill payment to contractors and organizations working for the Communications Department
Track impressions for companies and organizations that sponsor our organization’s marketing work
WEBSITE
Approve and publish stories to website
Identify and implement new ideas for our website to optimize user experience
SOCIAL MEDIA
Use technology to reach and educate stakeholders by using social media
Create content for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Manage all email and social media messaging from the organization.
MATERIALS
Work with staff to manage the design and layout of marketing and communications materials
Manage production of creative projects including but not limited to ads, brochures, flyers, campaign collateral, annual solicitation letters, and annual report
MEDIA RELATIONS
Coordinate media coverage of events
Organize news conferences
Maintain current media contact list
Research, write, and send effective media alerts and press releases
Cultivate and maintain favorable media relations
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Identify new ways to drive and generate revenue
Identify strategies and opportunities to best engage donors
Create and implement account plans for key workplace campaigns, serving as the lead staff for multiple workplace accounts
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Supervise planning of events
Assist in strategic positioning of the organization through event sponsorships
Work closely with Communications Director to develop a strategic volunteerism plan that supports the larger strategic communications plan
Maintain positive relationships with government, nonprofit and business leaders in the community
Represent United Way of Greater New Haven at public events and activities
Support and attend the organization’s key volunteer projects such as Read Across America Day, Comcast Cares Day, and Kindergarten Canvass
Support all other volunteer activities for the organization
Represent United Way in community initiatives and at community events as assigned
Develop strategy around engagement opportunities and communication of our work
Manage sponsorship program benefits
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume, and contact information for three references to employment@uwgnh.org. No phone calls, please. All applications are treated confidentially. Please include in your email subject line: “Communications Manager” Deadline for applying is October 31, 2016.
**United Way of Greater New Haven is an equal opportunity employer.**
The National Veteran Council is looking for family members of deceased Vietnam Veterans that entered in the Military from New Haven, CT. so, that their names can be inscribed on the Vietnam Monument on the Long Wharf in New Haven.
Go to www.nvclr.org and leave a message
Rain or Shine the 6th Annual Walk Against Domestic Violence will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2016 at mActivity Fitness Center, 285 Nicoll Street, New Haven, CT
10:00 am-noon
The event is open to all and individuals can register on the day of the walk.
For almost 40 years Family CT has helped thousands of women, children and families live safe, happy and violence-free lives.
For more information about the programs and services of Family Centered Services of CT visit our web site: www.familyct.org
Adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities are no different than anyone else in their desire to lead productive and fulfilling lives. But opportunities for employment are often too few. For more than 30 years, a Cheshire-based organization has been overcoming this hurdle for the benefit of both adults with disabilities and area employers.
“Our individuals are a great choice for a variety of jobs,” says Abilities Without Boundaries Executive Director Kevin Cassesse. Continue reading here.
