Community Resilience Director Tirzah Kemp: COMPASS provides an "empathetic, compassionate, humane, and trauma-informed approach to care."
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COMPASS calls, by the #s, as presented in August report.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team will now be on call until 3 a.m. each day — with double the staffers working during the peak hours of 7 to midnight — as the Elicker administration again expands its effort to send social workers and not police to certain 911 calls about homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse.
Myra Smith: "I feel powerless when it comes to this population."
Myra Smith walked into the Wilson Library Branch with her mind made up about supervised substance use centers: “It is NOT coming to the Hill. It’s not.”
She left with more openness to the concept as a way to address the opioid crisis that has overwhelmed her neighborhood. “I’m not saying I’m totally against it. This sounds wonderful,” she said — as long as it’s implemented with care for the surrounding community.
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English Station: Oh the potential, oh the decay.
A derelict power plant. A neighborhood school. A vibrant community history of hardship and resilience. And the ticking clock of climate change.
All these elements came together in the first of a series of walking tours — a collaboration among several public and nonprofit entities put together by Anstress Farwell, president of the New Haven Urban Design League — focusing on the decommissioned and toxic English Station power plant and the Mill River District in Fair Haven.
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We first see Duane Luckow backlit. He’s filming himself with his phone. “Hey everybody, can you see me?” he asks. We can’t. But then he turns into the light, and there’s his face, looking concerned. “I’m going to give you a little tour of this place,” he says. He shows us a bedroom, clean, well-lit, and very institutional. There’s a teddy bear on the bed. “I’m not supposed to be filming this,” he says, but gives us a view out the window, of a courtyard garden. “That’s the only thing I have hope for,” he says, “that someday I’ll get out of this place.”
Soryorelis Henry, with husband Darcus: "I felt so alone."
Yale has reached a settlement with 93 fertility clinic patients who received saline instead of fentanyl during excruciating and often traumatizing procedures.
One of those patients, Soryorelis Henry, found herself “screaming and crying” in agony during an egg retrieval that was supposed to be pain-free — and heard the cries of other patients undergoing the same procedure from the waiting room.
Vent trouble at Cross, the day before the start of school.
Wilbur Cross’s library will be closed for at least a week as the city’s public school district gets rid of air-borne mold spores — as part of its response to unkempt building conditions at the city’s largest high school at the start of the school year.
Ward 3 alder candidate Angel Hubbard kicks off the campaign launch: “I will never judge anyone for having an addiction. We do need programs.”
Rafael Rodriguez and Steven Fontanez (right) are working hard to help themselves and others out of addiction, as they told Hubbard, Valerie Boyd, and Justin Elicker.
Steven Fontanez is running out of time. He has only a few days left to stay at a sober housing program, and he hasn’t had luck finding an apartment.
Giselle Orosco is running out of patience. She’s tired of guessing whether the people who lie down outside her house are overdosing or merely asleep.
Angel Hubbard is running to be an alder for them both.
Pads on display at a Dwight period product giveaway.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) intends to comply with a new state law that requires public school districts to provide students with free menstrual products in bathrooms — and is still looking to secure funding to make that mandate a long-term reality.
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Aug 30, 2024 11:43 am
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In July of 2021, New Haven lost a harm reduction giant and a massively important member of the community, Jason Crowell. I don’t speak for all of Jason’s loved ones but I firmly believe that Jason died from stigma driven by the War on Drugs.
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Aug 28, 2024 3:38 pm
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Jim Farrales and Nancy Navarretta: This center is the "first of its kind" in the state.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team now has a central location on Winthrop Avenue where first responders can bring adults who need short-term help for substance use and mental health challenges — while keeping them out of hospitals.
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As New Haven Public School (NHPS) students get ready to return to the classroom next week, the district is working to remediate “surface mold” from its buildings. Again.
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Retreat affiliate attorney Richard Weinstein: "You have a receiver in place. If he wants to throw out perishables, obviously, he can throw out perishables."
(Updated) An abandoned drug rehab center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard feels a bit “like the rapture,” a foreclosure-pursuing attorney said in state court on Friday.
There’s rotting food in the kitchen. There are utility-turn off notices lying around. And there’s now more than $300,000 in back property taxes due.
It’s as if “people just picked up one day and left,” the attorney said — even though the addiction treatment center has been closed for a month and a half.
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Retreat's now-closed 915 Ella T. Grasso location.
Patient records, narcotics, and piles of mail allegedly remained inside a drug rehab center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard a month after the facility abruptly closed — and were all accessible to anyone able to push through the shuttered complex’s back door.
The following email press release was sent out on Tuesday by Yale New Haven Hospital about New Haven’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, also known as WIC.
Yahya, Rayyan, and Amira stay cool in Hillhouse's pool for open swim.
Growing up in Syria and Jordan, 18-year-old Ibrahim Alhraaki didn’t learn to or take an interest in swimming. Then he began attending Common Ground High School — and was offered a chance to become a city lifeguard.
A 55-meter race at Bowen field with 4th through 6th graders.
Four-year-old Kairo Johnson had her eyes glued on her mother standing behind the finish line of a 55-meter race, motivating her to speed past her opponents and take the win.
The race took place during a community track meet to celebrate a month-long summer track program run by Hillhouse track coach Gary Moore.
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Stacey Cannon: Working to "overcome lack of trust" as a community health worker ...
... at New Haven's new mobile pharmacy-clinic.
A National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded mobile pharmacy van is taking to the streets of New Haven to provide clinical testing, prescriptions, and medical treatment to underserved communities — i.e. “healthcare for everyone.”
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Jul 3, 2024 3:11 pm
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The now-closed addiction treatment center on the Blvd.
Late Retreat exec Scott Korogodsky: Sought to answer employees' questions, days before taking his own life.
A top executive at a for-profit drug rehab company sought to reassure hundreds of employees — including more than 160 in New Haven — who hadn’t been paid in weeks.
They needed to hear from someone in charge, especially after the company’s CEO had just died by suicide, leading to the sudden closure of addiction treatment centers in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
So he wrote everyone an email.
When will employees be paid? “We hope to have a definitive answer toward week’s end,” the executive, Retreat Behavioral Health Chief Administrative Officer Scott Korogodsky, wrote on June 23.
What are the chances these employees would keep their jobs?
Retreat is committed to continuing the late CEO’s mission “to provide quality substance abuse care and mental health services to all our communities.”
Three days after sending that email, Korogodsky took his own life. The clinics and treatment centers stayed shut.
Now Retreat’s workers are turning to the courts to try to recoup lost pay.
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Jul 3, 2024 3:10 pm
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Adam Enders, Jamen Vandervort, and Sandy Enders at the job fair.
Jamen Vandervort’s family went “from three house incomes to just one” when he and his father suddenly lost their jobs at a drug rehab clinic that closed amidst corporate chaos.
So on Tuesday the father-son duo joined dozens of their former colleagues at a job fair designed to help get Retreat Behavioral Health’s abruptly unemployed back to work.
At 9 a.m. Monday, Estefania Guanoluisa Valdez became the first undocumented teenager in Connecticut to newly enroll for health insurance with HUSKY, the state’s Medicaid program — thanks to a new state law that expands such coverage to children up to the age of 15, regardless of their immigration status.
Crenshaw (right) teaches Tanasia Edwards how to perform a breast self exam.
Jacquelyn Crenshaw isn’t new to spotting breast tumors. Having worked in mammography for more than 40 years, she urged a crowd of over a dozen women to get their annual mammograms, perform monthly breast self-examinations, and above all, “know your breast density.”
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Jun 28, 2024 10:20 am
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At November's launch of Overdose Prevention Program.
A recent pair of resignations has left the city looking to fill two vacancies in a four-person program designed to combat overdoses by building relationships with people who use drugs and guiding them towards safe housing, medical care, and other supportive services.
