Keep Your Kids & Family Healthy & Active with CATCH this Summer!!

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Keep Your Kids & Family Healthy & Active with CATCH this Summer!!

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Help CHR win a $10,000 IMPACT grant from the Red Sox Foundation!

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Help CHR win a $10,000 IMPACT grant from the Red Sox Foundation!

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Unique Manchester apartments will provide housing, support services to young adults at risk of homel

By ISABELLA CHAN | HARTFORD COURANT | JUN 24, 2021 AT 4:22 PM MANCHESTER — Officials joined Community Health Resources representatives Thursday to open the Promise House Apartments in Manchester, a building designed to provide housing to young adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness in the Greater Hartford area. The project is just one of a handful of similar programs nationwide targeting the specific needs of young adults. Rather than phase children out of the system, CHR is hoping to help phase them into adulthood. Fund...[More]

Unique Manchester apartments will provide housing, support services to young adults at risk of homel

By ISABELLA CHAN | HARTFORD COURANT | JUN 24, 2021 AT 4:22 PM MANCHESTER — Officials joined Community Health Resources representatives Thursday to open the Promise House Apartments in Manchester, a building designed to provide housing to young adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness in the Greater Hartford area. The project is just one of a handful of similar programs nationwide targeting the specific needs of young adults. Rather than phase children out of the system, CHR is hoping to help phase them into adulthood. Fund...[More]

Meeting the Needs of Homeless Young Adults

CHR and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz Cut Ribbon for Promise House Apartments: Unique Model to Provide Short-Term Housing and Support Services Together with Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Community Health Resources (CHR), the most comprehensive behavioral healthcare agency in Connecticut, today celebrated a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for Promise House, an apartment building in Manchester designed to meet the needs of young adults who are experiencing homelessness. Promise House will provide 12 efficiency apartments for young adults, ages 18-25, together...[More]

Meeting the Needs of Homeless Young Adults

CHR and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz Cut Ribbon for Promise House Apartments: Unique Model to Provide Short-Term Housing and Support Services Together with Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Community Health Resources (CHR), the most comprehensive behavioral healthcare agency in Connecticut, today celebrated a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for Promise House, an apartment building in Manchester designed to meet the needs of young adults who are experiencing homelessness. Promise House will provide 12 efficiency apartments for young adults, ages 18-25, together...[More]

CHR Advocates for Mental Health Funding

CHR’s CEO and President, Heather M. Gates, lobbied lawmakers on Monday, June 14 to increase reimbursements for mental health and drug-addiction services. “We have a crisis, and we thought we were close to a solution. But instead of passing a budget that increased funding for all nonprofits, as the Appropriations Committee had recommended, funding was directed instead to the providers who needed to settle strike actions,” said Heather Gates, chief executive of Community Health Resources. “Those organizations clearly deserve raises, no qu...[More]

CHR Advocates for Mental Health Funding

CHR’s CEO and President, Heather M. Gates, lobbied lawmakers on Monday, June 14 to increase reimbursements for mental health and drug-addiction services. “We have a crisis, and we thought we were close to a solution. But instead of passing a budget that increased funding for all nonprofits, as the Appropriations Committee had recommended, funding was directed instead to the providers who needed to settle strike actions,” said Heather Gates, chief executive of Community Health Resources. “Those organizations clearly deserve raises, no qu...[More]

CHR Receives Grant from Hartford Foundation Greater Together Community Funds

Hartford Foundation Announces Inaugural Grants from Greater Together Community Funds In 2019, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving launched one of the most ambitious participatory grantmaking programs in the nation. The $2.9 million, Greater Together Community Funds initiative established 29 $100,000 community funds, one for each town in the Foundation’s region. Half of each fund is immediately available for grantmaking, while the other half of the fund is endowed, allowing a percentage of those dollars to be available annually for gra...[More]

CHR Receives Grant from Hartford Foundation Greater Together Community Funds

Hartford Foundation Announces Inaugural Grants from Greater Together Community Funds In 2019, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving launched one of the most ambitious participatory grantmaking programs in the nation. The $2.9 million, Greater Together Community Funds initiative established 29 $100,000 community funds, one for each town in the Foundation’s region. Half of each fund is immediately available for grantmaking, while the other half of the fund is endowed, allowing a percentage of those dollars to be available annually for gra...[More]

Honoring CHR’s Therapeutic Foster Care Program

It’s hard to imagine living through the pandemic without a place to call home, especially for children and teens. Fortunately, CHR’s Therapeutic Foster Care program supported children, teens and families nonstop throughout the pandemic. During national Foster Care Awareness Month, we honor the CHR staff and families across Connecticut who never stop working to help children and teens. Thank you!! There are many more children in need of homes right now. Please call 860.730.8727 to learn more about how you can help. The post Honoring ...[More]

Honoring CHR’s Therapeutic Foster Care Program

It’s hard to imagine living through the pandemic without a place to call home, especially for children and teens. Fortunately, CHR’s Therapeutic Foster Care program supported children, teens and families nonstop throughout the pandemic. During national Foster Care Awareness Month, we honor the CHR staff and families across Connecticut who never stop working to help children and teens. Thank you!! There are many more children in need of homes right now. Please call 860.730.8727 to learn more about how you can help. The post Honoring ...[More]

Now is the Right Time

During Mental Health Awareness Month, CHR reminds everyone that now is the right time to start feeling better with effective, personalized treatments for substance use, anxiety, trauma and more. “Our amazing staff were here for the community throughout the pandemic and are available today to help people of all ages begin to feel better and achieve recovery,” said Heather M. Gates, President/CEO of CHR. “We are always striving to find new treatments, new services, and innovative programs to help people of all ages lead happier and healthie...[More]

Now is the Right Time

During Mental Health Awareness Month, CHR reminds everyone that now is the right time to start feeling better with effective, personalized treatments for substance use, anxiety, trauma and more. “Our amazing staff were here for the community throughout the pandemic and are available today to help people of all ages begin to feel better and achieve recovery,” said Heather M. Gates, President/CEO of CHR. “We are always striving to find new treatments, new services, and innovative programs to help people of all ages lead happier and healthie...[More]

CHR Advocates for Funding to Invest in Non-Profits

CHR’s President and CEO, Heather Gates, along with Recovery Support Specialist. Scott Shepard, RSS, participated in a news conference on April 28 organized by the CT Nonprofit Alliance to advocate for increased state funding for mental health and addiction services and other non-profit programs. Gates thanked the Appropriations Committee for passing a budget that includes a significant investment in Connecticut’s non-profits, like CHR, which have been underfunded for the last decade. “With this funding, we can restore clinical positions, ...[More]

CHR Advocates for Funding to Invest in Non-Profits

CHR’s President and CEO, Heather Gates, along with Recovery Support Specialist. Scott Shepard, RSS, participated in a news conference on April 28 organized by the CT Nonprofit Alliance to advocate for increased state funding for mental health and addiction services and other non-profit programs. Gates thanked the Appropriations Committee for passing a budget that includes a significant investment in Connecticut’s non-profits, like CHR, which have been underfunded for the last decade. “With this funding, we can restore clinical positions, ...[More]

Thanks for Supporting CHR’s Virtual Fitness Events!

THANK YOU to everyone who supported CHR’s virtual fitness events this spring: the virtual Steam Train Half Marathon and Locomotion Fitness Challenge! With your support, we raised over $31,000! Please stay tuned for information about our second Locomotion Fitness Challenge in the fall of 2021 and save the date of Saturday, April 9, 2022 for CHR’s LIVE Steam Train Half Marathon in Essex and Deep River, CT! The post Thanks for Supporting CHR’s Virtual Fitness Events! appeared first on CHR....[More]

Thanks for Supporting CHR’s Virtual Fitness Events!

THANK YOU to everyone who supported CHR’s virtual fitness events this spring: the virtual Steam Train Half Marathon and Locomotion Fitness Challenge! With your support, we raised over $31,000! Please stay tuned for information about our second Locomotion Fitness Challenge in the fall of 2021 and save the date of Saturday, April 9, 2022 for CHR’s LIVE Steam Train Half Marathon in Essex and Deep River, CT! The post Thanks for Supporting CHR’s Virtual Fitness Events! appeared first on CHR....[More]