When a friend told me about a conversation sponsored by Community Action Agency of New Haven’s Black Maternal Health Project on Wednesday, I changed my plans for the night, hopped in my pickup truck, and headed to Southern Connecticut State University’s campus. I wanted to see the film Aftershock and hear the panel of Black women health providers talk about it and the stories it tells — true stories of two families that lost their wives, moms, and daughters due to preventable birthing complications.
Covid cases are on the rise — including for Mayor Justin Elicker, who tested positive on Saturday, is still working remotely, and spent the weekend fighting a fever, cough, and stuffy nose.
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Juliana Garcia (center) at Fair Haven Health talk: "To what extent can I dream?"
Juliana Garcia can still remember being nine years old, uninsured, and telling her mom that it really was ok for her to pass on a dental surgery that would cost more than $4,000.
That the healthcare operation could wait. That that money needed to be spent instead on rent and food and other essentials.
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Aug 22, 2023 10:10 am
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Fiona Firine's Narcan kit, number 13,504 distributed by the Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance. They've now passed out more than 30,000 kits.
The first time Kaysie Mire saw someone overdose on opioids, she was alone, scared, and shaking. But she was also ready: She ran to her tent, grabbed a syringe, injected naloxone into her neighbor’s arm, and saved a life.
City officials and social service providers gathered on the Green for National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day to urge more members of the public to learn, like Mire, what to do in the face of mounting emergencies stemming from substance abuse and contamination.
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Jim LoPresti shakes away the stress with his bamboo leaf rattle.
If asked where one might go in New Haven for a moment or two of meditative stillness, few people would suggest Crown Street, known for its bustling and crowded restaurants and bars as well as a bevy of sounds that would challenge any symphony. But one place offers, among other wellness and restorative practices, a chance to take in an hour of music made specifically to center its participants and give them a chance to remain present and thoughtful in their minds and bodies.
Robert Farrow, Jr. and LaKayla Farrow celebrate the new lactation room at Union Station with daughters Harmony and Heaven.
After years of struggling to find a private space to breastfeed her children, LaKayla Farrow can now do so in peace in a newly opened room on the second floor of Union Station.
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Ex-social services chief Mehul Dalal: "There's no secret plan."
Loved ones of lives lost to overdoses stepped out of the shadows and into City Hall to express both support and skepticism towards medically supervised injection and drug consumption sites — and to slam a mayoral candidate’s public opposition to such harm reduction centers as politicizing and polarizing opioid addiction.
Hana Feldman plans to return to school once her firstborn is old enough for daycare — and hopes that two-week-old Eva will have an easier time following in her footsteps with state money newly set aside for college tuition.
Goldenberg: "New Haven should not be an experiment for the state."
The Elicker administration is in the early stages of looking into medically supervised injection and drug consumption sites as a local strategy for combating opioid overdoses — while a mayoral challenger is pushing back against those tentative plans as a tactic for bashing the incumbent.
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Keith Churchwell.
Keith Churchwell plans to step down from his role as the president of Yale New Haven Hospital next month after nearly three years in the top job, and will be replaced in the interim by the regional hospital system’s current chief operating officer, Pamela Sutton-Wallace.
Rosa DeLauro (center) at Wednesday's courthouse-steps presser.
Connecticut has been a sanctuary for decades for those seeking abortions — and will remain a haven for women’s reproductive healthcare, even as the court-toppled Roe v. Wade precedent recedes into recent history.
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison cheers on Q House healthcare.
At the newly opened Cornell Scott Hill Health Center at 197 Dixwell.
Gayle Hall, a self-described “lifetime member of the Q House,” celebrated a newfound chance to see her doctor at the newly-revived community center in the neighborhood she calls home.
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Jamila Hokanson, Sasha Lehrer, Jordan Sloshower, Damian Paglia, Stephanie Kilpatrick, in West Rock Wellness's art gallery.
A team of clinicians and wellness instructors has opened a new mental health center in Westville, offering everything from psychotherapy to mind-body medicine to ketamine-assisted psychedelic therapies.
This panoply of offerings is unified by their greater aim to create connection and community.
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Health Department's current rented home at 54 Meadow.
Health Director Bond and Acting Controller Gormany Monday.
The city’s Health Department plans to stay in rented office and clinic space on Meadow Street through the end of the year as renovations wrap up at its new publicly owned headquarters to-be on Chapel Street.
Newhallville-Hamden Strong Chair Jeanette Sykes: APT pushback brought community together.
A hundred Newhallville and southern Hamden community members celebrated news that the APT Foundation methadone clinic nonprofit is still open to selling its recently-purchased Dixwell Avenue building to a local children’s mental health nonprofit.
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May 15, 2023 11:51 am
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Fair Haven Health's Suzanne Lagarde with renderings of the planned new Grand Ave. clinic.
A light-saturated waiting area. A lush outdoor patio. A rooftop terrace alive with plants and trees.
The images, exhibited on an easel at the Atwater Senior Center, were only representative of what the new Fair Haven Community Health Care clinic could be — but they took Denise Dean’s breath away.
Dean, FHCHC’s person-centered care coordinator, has been at the clinic for over 20 years. To judge from the palpable sense of excitement among the dozen or so residents at a recent community gathering, she wasn’t alone in her feeling of welcome anticipation.
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NICU Family Support Specialist Michelle Gray with AnneMarie Rivera Berrios and her son Joshua ...
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... dropping off Mother's Day gift bags for NICU moms, with friend Lisa Milone.
AnneMarie Rivera Berrios pulled up to the front entrance of Yale New Haven’s York Street hospital campus with a trunk full of gift bags, a son on the cusp of turning 3, and still-vivid memories of the kind gestures that helped her through her own time as a NICU mom.
Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
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Rick Woods contributing to city coffers outside Affinity.
City government picked up extra cash for cleaner streets and other state-allowed public service programs as local sales rack up for legal pot and mini-liquor-bottle “nips.”
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YNHH's James Dodington: Exploring "new ground nationally."
Shooting victims and their families are now eligible to receive one-time checks worth up to $1,000 apiece — thanks to an expanded hospital-led cash transfer program focused on supporting targets of interpersonal abuse while disrupting a broader cycle of social violence.
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Dr. Nancy Stanwood with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal on Monday: "The reprieve is only temporary."
Connecticut patients seeking an abortion can continue to access — for now — a safe, legal, and decades-old medication that is commonly used across the country to help end a pregnancy in its first trimester.
But the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of mifepristone’s federal approval is only temporary. And an ideologically motivated attack on the drug’s legitimacy could still prevail.
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Apr 19, 2023 2:50 pm
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Outdoor fitness equipment slated for Wooster Memorial Park.
Wooster Street parkgoers should soon have a new climbing structure, pull up bars, and other outdoor fitness equipment to help them exercise in the public greenspace, thanks to a donation from the Dalio Foundation.
