News from Wheeler

Dru Breslav, LCSW, senior director of community-based family services, and Elisabeth Cannata, Ph.D., vice president, community-based family services and practice innovation, are among the authors of a chapter in a new book by the Child Welfare League of America, entitled "Child Neglect, Inequity, & Poverty. Volume II: Practice Innovations, Concrete Resources, and Justice."

Dozens of attendees honored an anniversary in Bristol for two decades of a highly successful model of home-based behavioral health treatment. Wheeler was intimately involved in the development of the Multisystemic Therapy – Building Stronger Families model in 2004-2005 and continues to be a leading provider around the state.

For more than 16 years, Wheeler’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services (MCIS) program has served children and youth in the Greater Hartford region, right in their homes, schools, and communities. This approach helps to divert unnecessary visits to the emergency room or inpatient hospital stays.

Every day, across the state, dozens of Wheeler clinicians step out of their cars, ring a doorbell, and change lives in the most intimate setting, a family’s home.

Wheeler recently honored four donors for outstanding support of its mission at the organization’s 14th Annual Hands & Hearts event, held virtually, on December 12.

Valerie Fusco, a pediatric LPN for Wheeler's Susan Walkama Family Health & Wellness Center in Hartford, received the organization's second annual Ethics & Integrity Award. Valerie was nominated by her peers as part of the 2024 Health Care Compliance Association’s Corporate Compliance & Ethics week, November 3 through 9.

Wheeler Health has begun its first residency program for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, designed to cultivate clinical leaders in community health.

Daniel Melchor, LCSW, integrated care supervisor at the Wheeler Family Health & Wellness Center in Waterbury, recently sat with NBC Connecticut and Telemundo to discuss how to manage anxiety and stress in these turbulent times.

Wheeler has been named a Top Workplace for professional development of its staff and for being a woman-led organization.

Four years ago, Amy Borg’s empty nest in a central Connecticut suburb offered an opportune time to become a foster parent. But her desire to help youth, especially girls, began long before then.

Dr. Joshua Jones, a primary care physician at Wheeler Health’s Family Health & Wellness Center in Hartford, has been named a Healthcare Hero by the Hartford Business Journal.

A highly experienced, American Board of Family Medicine-certified, osteopathically trained family physician has moved to Connecticut to become the lead physician at Wheeler’s Family Health & Wellness Center in Bristol.

Wheeler Health is a 2024 Top Workplaces recipient by Hartford Courant Top Workplaces, based on confidential employee feedback.

Rita Demo, MPH, LMFT, has been named vice president of Community, Crisis, and Prevention Services for Wheeler, providing clinical and administrative supervision for more than 25 programs.

Amber Sagan, MPH, project coordinator, Wheeler's Connecticut Center for Prevention, Wellness and Recovery, recently appeared on CT Paid Leave Podcast to discuss the statewide Change the Script Campaign.