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Nora Grace-Flood and Paul Bass |
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OBGYN Iyanna Liles with Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz at Hamden post-ruling rally: "It's devastating."
Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz visited a women’s health center in Hamden Friday hours after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade — and issued a nationwide invitation to individuals with uteruses to come to Connecticut while placing abortion at the forefront of their reelection campaign.
New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro renewed a call Friday for Congress to enshrine a right to abortion in federal law, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.
Mayor Justin Elicker samples a chocolate espresso cocktail cupcake Monday at the Q House incubator kitchen (above), where baker Maxine Harris (below) displays a stand mixer she received from City Seed.
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It wasn’t too early in the morning to sample an artisanal beer-infused cupcake — or announce an infusion of federal dollars into a recipe for strengthening both public health and entrepreneurship in the Dixwell neighborhood.
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Jun 17, 2022 9:11 am
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Lisa Saunders.
Lisa Saunders was working out at Edgewood Park early to get her morning calisthenics reps in using the playground as her personal gym before starting the rest of the day.
Saunders used to weigh 400 pounds and now guides other people of color in weight loss based on her personal experience while taking part in an overeaters anonymous group.
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Jun 15, 2022 1:34 pm
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Rebecca Patterson, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist and a Neighborhood Music School instructor, plays "Sicilenne" by Maria Theresia von Paradis at Wednesday's announcement.
Four local non-profits will stand on stronger financial footing as they steward New Haven’s history, culture, and mental health care, thanks to a record $35 million donation to the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven.
Infuriated by the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe v. Wade and striking down of abortion rights, hundreds of Yale alumni gathered on campus to send a message to their former classmate, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “Change your vote.”
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Laura Glesby |
May 30, 2022 9:40 am
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Sarya Provite leads dance in rain at mental health awareness fair.
Baron “Von Leek” felt nervous at the prospect of talking to others about mental illness for years, he said as rain poured from the sky.
An hour later, sunshine surprised Jocelyn Square Park — and Von Leek found himself rapping about his self-diagnosed schizophrenia to a moved audience of mental health activists and stigma-breakers.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Tuesday continued taking a lead on addressing the nationwide infant formula shortage, introducing a bill to allot $28 million in emergency federal funds to tackle the current crisis as well as prevent future ones.
Three hundred students poured out of New Haven high schools onto city buses and the streets to the New Haven Green to issue a cry for help: We need more counselors, not cops, to help us deal with exploding mental-health concerns.
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Laura Glesby |
May 11, 2022 1:29 pm
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One recent Wednesday morning, before arriving to Whalley Avenue to open his pharmacy business for a day, Victor Fok drove to a patient’s house to teach them how to test their blood sugar levels, free of charge.
At Fok’s previous job at a large corporate pharmacy chain, he would never have had the time and incentive to prioritize patient education. Now, as a co-owner of the recently-opened True-Care Pharmacy in the Amity neighborhood, Fok and his team hope to reach community members where they live with personally-delivered prescriptions, immunizations, and education initiatives.
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May 6, 2022 11:54 am
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Mayor Justin Elicker on Thursday.
Nearly three months after Mayor Justin Elicker first announced that hundreds of vaccine doses had been mishandled by the Health Department, the city is almost done investigating what went wrong — and who’s to blame.
In the wake of a reported pending U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw Roe v. Wade, New Haven activist are demanding that the nation follow in the footsteps of countries like Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico where abortion is a protected human right.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 14, 2022 9:37 am
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As one of Hamden’s local Goodwill stores will be moving out of its 2369 Dixwell Ave. home, the chain’s officials have told the Independent the nonprofit is officially searching for a spot to reopen elsewhere in town.
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Laura Glesby |
Apr 8, 2022 4:22 pm
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Christine with her backpack of harm reduction supplies.
A few years ago, hospital workers tried to confiscate the purple-gray backpack that Christine carries with her everywhere, she said. At the time, the bag was her only possession; it doubled as a pillow when she slept on the streets.
Rather than sacrifice the bag, Christine refused health care. She has avoided medical centers ever since.
Now, as a volunteer with the Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN) who obtained housing, Christine uses that same backpack to carry a form of medical care that hospitals often fail to provide: “harm reduction” supplies like clean needles and condoms, which can mean the difference between life and death for those who use them.
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Apr 8, 2022 10:23 am
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Rev. Boise Kimber at 2020 Newhallville Management Team meeting.
Throughout the first of six planned “listening sessions,” Newhallville residents shared cautious optimism about about the general concept — and questions about the details — of an effort to replace a planned methadone clinic with a mental health center in a former school building at 794 Dixwell Ave.
If a new subvariant were to have created a new Covid-19 outbreak, it probably would have shown up by now in the wastewater — and it hasn’t, according to the man who checks.
