The YMCA of Greater Hartford has received grants totaling $7,000 from the Berkshire Bank Foundation in support of the Wilson-Gray YMCA’s Teen Incentive Program and YMCA Celebrates Champions. The goal of Y-TIP is to break the cycle of poverty for as many teens as possible by saving lives, building dreams, inspiring learning, and providing impoverished teens with the skills needed to compete in the global marketplace. YMCA Celebrates Champions benefits the YMCA’s Annual Campaign; Read to Succeed, an adult literacy program; and other programs and services that are accessible to youth, families and adults regardless of their ability to pay.
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A total of 18 organizations received $100,000 in grants from The Connecticut Health Foundation to help assist individuals enrolling in or renewing their health insurance coverage. The money will go to the Community Renewal Team in Hartford, the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, Center for a New Economy in Hartford, and West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District, among others. Access Health CT will train the enrollment assisters. The CT Health Foundation’s goal is to ensure that knowledgeable and trusted in-person resources are available to reduce obstacles for consumers who face multiple barriers, particularly in geographic areas where sizable racially/ethnically diverse populations remain uninsured.
Editor’s note: This item has been corrected to say that Access Health is not the entity receiving the grant, but rather the entity providing training.
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The Bloomfield Fuel Bank received a $2,550 check from the state’s Home Energy Solutions program. The donation will be used to help Bloomfield residents with energy-related financial assistance during the heating season. Since the beginning of this initiative in 2012, a total of $17,525 has been donated to the Bloomfield Fuel Bank. HES is a home energy improvement program provided by CL&P, United Illuminating and the natural gas utilities as part of the Energize Connecticut initiative.
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The MJ Petretto Foundation presented Wallingford’s Gaylord Specialty Healthcare with a check for $9,000 from their 2014 Annual Golf Classic held at the Clinton Country Club. Gaylord will use the grant to purchase the “Reach” system for the hospital’s spinal cord injury unit. Reach is an environmental control unit that allows a patient with paralysis to control their environment through speech or a touch screen in order to give the patient a sense of control and help return a level of independence lost after a traumatic accident or illness.
