Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has awarded a $50,000 grant to support the YWCA Hartford Region’s supportive and emergency housing center in the shadow of the insurer’s Asylum Hill neighborhood headquarters campus.
The Y’s Soromundi Commons is run in collaboration with Hartford’s nonprofit Chrysalis Center Inc. to sate the growing homeless population in Hartford and statewide, authorities say.
This project supports the homeless and those at-risk of homelessness with, among other things, job counseling, health care and a community learning center.
“The Hartford is committed to supporting the Asylum Hill neighborhood,” said Mary Ellen Curran, director of philanthropy at The Hartford.
The number of people in Hartford shelters and transitional housing programs increased 3 percent from 2009 to 2010, The Hartford said.
Shelters in Connecticut have been operating more than 100 percent capacity for almost two full years. Roughly one in four homeless individuals in Connecticut is sheltered in Hartford.
