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Pride Center Executive Director Juancarlos Soto (center): "Come party with us!"
Drag performances, banned books, rainbow flags and more will be on display across New Haven this week — as the city kicks off its annual pride festival.
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Saving a gun shot victim at the Shack during a Yale EMT training program.
Aspiring Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) Andreanna Adkins, Iijonnia White, and Kimah Davis kneeled down to aid a plastic-dummy “gun shot victim” on Elm Street — inside a West Hills community center, as part of their training to save a real life down the line.
by | Aug 31, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Metro's restorative justice boots on the ground: Connie Catrone, Nyla Johnay Conaway, Briana Harrington, Courtney Maddox, Tienna Guadarrama, Daymary Lopez, and Stephen Staysniak.
In a bid to expand its restorative justice practices, Metropolitan Business Academy has put together a class for the second year in a row that focuses on helping high schoolers learn that “there are other ways to deal with harm.”
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by | Aug 10, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (7)
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A memorial made by passerby on the steps where Petrulis passed this week.
Kaysie Mire felt scared, alone and lost the first time she visited a homelessness drop-in center — until Keith Petrulis, who’d been without housing for two years, took it upon himself to tell Mire, “Hey, you’re okay.” He showed her around the space, offered her some snacks, and introduced her to her future boyfriend.
Eight months later, Mire and her partner have secured an apartment and are expecting a child together — while their best friend, Petrulis, is now dead, after his body was found on the State Street sidewalk where he’d been sleeping for the last two weeks.
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by | Aug 3, 2023 3:48 pm | Comments (5)
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s largest grant program has funneled more than $2 million to 77 local nonprofits — funding programs in Greater New Haven that help kids thrive after school, unhoused people find beds to sleep in, artists create with more financial security, and childcare organizations survive a struggling yet essential industry, among a wide range of services.
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by | Jul 31, 2023 4:13 pm | Comments (22)
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Queenie Nkrumah (center) in class for S.T.R.E.E.T Credit and Enrichment Program.
Fifteen-year-old Queenie Nkrumah penned a letter to her future self five years from now detailing her goals to buy a home for her mother, become a real estate agent, and work toward making $1 million by age 21.
Continue reading ‘Black Corner Students Study For Financial Freedom’
by | Jul 31, 2023 11:48 am | Comments (29)
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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.
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by | Jul 26, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (0)
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Chynna Sherrod, Claire Criscuolo, and Josiah Brown.
Connecticut CASA, a New Haven-based nonprofit organization, submitted the following account of a recent event held on its behalf.
On July 20, Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) held a “Cooking for CASA” Benefit with Chef Claire Criscuolo and a musical performance by Chynna Sherrod.
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by | Jul 25, 2023 3:45 pm | Comments (12)
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Hana and Eva Feldman, both ready for college.
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.
by | Jul 24, 2023 6:56 pm | Comments (74)
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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.
by | Jul 21, 2023 2:23 pm | Comments (4)
CT Social Equity Council Executive Director Ginne-Rae Clay, Prosperity Foundation Executive Director Orsella Hughes, and SEC Board Member Michael Jefferson at Friday's presser.
A million-dollar check marked “prosperity” is making its way into New Haven.
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by | Jul 10, 2023 9:35 am | Comments (1)
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At Friday's Community Action Agency job fair.
Milani Glass and her family once turned to the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) for help making ends meet. She’s now the Whalley Avenue social service hub’s health literacy and outreach coordinator.
On Friday, Glass sought to help recruit future colleagues-to-be at a job fair focused on available work at her former lifeline-turned-current employer.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Social-Service Job Hunters Seek A "Fresh Start"’
by | Jul 7, 2023 4:52 pm | Comments (14)
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Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton: "Unsheltered homelessness is absolutely a crisis in our community."
Some of the 50 new emergency beds at 209 Terminal Ln.
Fifty new emergency shelter beds came online in the Hill Friday to help provide a safe, clean, indoors place to sleep for the city’s — and the region’s — rising number of people without a home.
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by | Jul 5, 2023 8:44 am | Comments (1)
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Kristin Washington meets with job-pitchers from state Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Kristin Washington showed up to the Fair Haven public library fueled by a dream to work in public health — and ready to find out if state government employment could be the right career path for her now that’s she graduated from college and hunting for a job.
Continue reading ‘Employees To-Be Meet Employers In-Need In Fair Haven’
by | Jun 30, 2023 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Book Award recipients with New Haven Links President Toni Harp.
Howard University, Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), University of Hartford, and Morgan State University are the next stops for seven New Haven high school graduates who each got a helping hand from a historic Black female advocacy organization to chase their higher-education dreams.
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Soon-to-retire Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal in April 2021.
Mehul Dalal will be stepping down from his role as the city’s top social services administrator for a policy advisor job in state government, and the mayor plans to replace him with the founder and executive director of a Blake Street public charter school.
by | Jun 27, 2023 3:17 pm | Comments (22)
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Rallying for "Justice For Roya!" in West Haven.
Over two dozen New Haveners decamped to West Haven City Hall to celebrate the tragically short life of Roya Mohammadi — and to amp up pressure on police and public officials to take action around the sudden death of the 29-year-old Afghan immigrant and translator, whom advocates fear was a victim of domestic violence.
by | Jun 26, 2023 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Doreen Abubakar (center) helping a senior attendee pot her plant.
“Everyone, be quiet! I want to know which one I got.”
A hush fell over the roughly 30 seniors gathered on the second floor of the Q House community center as the gardeners-in-training attempted to find the flower that corresponded to the leafy sprouts in front of them.
by | Jun 22, 2023 11:04 am | Comments (3)
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The planned new rehab site at 215 Whalley.
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The ex-CVS's closed front doors and chainlink fences.
An abstinence-focused drug rehab clinic won its final needed city approval to relocate to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
by | Jun 16, 2023 11:12 am | Comments (11)
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Patricio Ramirez ready to take a shower at Power in a Shower on the Green earlier this week.
Alders moved forward plans to boost funds for a mobile shower program and social workers in the public libraries, as part of two new city contracts designed to help New Haven’s growing homelessness population.
Continue reading ‘Shower Van, Library Social Worker Contracts Advance’
by | Jun 7, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (7)
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Big changes -- and six-month closure -- coming to State St. drop-in center (pictured).
A commercial kitchen and health clinic are coming to State Street’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen next year — as the long-time homelessness services provider prepares to temporarily relocate so that it can build out its latest location to better support a growing number of people facing housing and income insecurity.
Continue reading ‘DESK Preps For Temp Relocation, Major Renovations’
by | May 22, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (4)
A rendering of the future childcare site on Flint Street.
Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.
by | May 9, 2023 8:47 am | Comments (11)
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.
by | May 5, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (0)
(Updated) New Haven’s nonprofits have $3.5 million more to spend connecting and strengthening our community thanks to a 36-hour joint fundraising blowout.
by | Apr 19, 2023 10:52 am | Comments (45)
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Encampment residents unfolding their egg and cheeses Tuesday morning.
A view of the tents around Amistad House's backyard.
Refugees from a bulldozed West River encampment are taking shelter at an alternative, mission-based outdoor site in the Hill as they plan next steps to get back on their feet — while amping up their commitment to addressing the roots of housing injustice.
