News from Wheeler

Wheeler received a $7,000 grant from Connecticut Community Foundation’s Pride in the Hills Fund to support its Walk With Me program. The grant will be used to support the work of a peer support specialist and enhance and expand parent/caregiver services for LGBTQIA+ families.

Two new services being offered at Wheeler’s Hartford and New Britain community health centers will help patients find relief from symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Wheeler’s 38th Annual Golf Classic, presented by Mutual of America Financial Group for the fifth consecutive year, will take place at The Country Club of Farmington on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Registration is open, and sponsors, players, and prize donors are welcome.

Wheeler’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services (MCIS) has moved on-site, in-person coverage to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in order to best meet the needs of communities in Central Connecticut.

COVID boosters are offered to the public at Wheeler’s five Family Health & Wellness Centers on Wednesdays through the end of April, as well as the Plainville Senior Center through Wheeler’s Mobile Family Health & Wellness Center on March 20 and April 10.

A digital campaign to recruit foster families for youth in Waterbury and eight surrounding towns is designed to educate prospective parents about opportunities to foster youth—for shorter durations—right in their own communities.

Wheeler is expanding behavioral health services to students and families at DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School in New Britain, as well as providing linkages to accessible health care at Wheeler’s Family Health & Wellness Center in the city.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Bristol city officials, and Wheeler leadership celebrated the award of $980,000 in federal support for construction of Wheeler’s new health center and administrative headquarters in Centre Square, Bristol.