Today, staff from CHC are participating in The 6th Annual Danbury Project Homeless Connect. You may have read about it in the Danbury Patch or the NewsTimes. But, what you may not have heard are some of the stories about what makes this such an important event. One of our dental hygienists shared a few stories about last year’s event. An overweight woman told me she has diabetes. I asked if she was checking her blood numbers daily and she…
Hello everyone! I am the new AmeriCorps member for the Wherever You Are (WYA) program here at CHC. I am very excited to be working with WYA and CHC this year, and I look forward to sharing more through this blog. Already I have been humbly exposed to the conditions that many homeless people regretfully experience, and the great contributions that so many community members make to help improve their quality of life. The WYA team is among these organizations and individuals who…
If you’re like me, you’ve probably walked by the old man in tattered clothes sitting on the curb holding his torn piece of cardboard with a plea for help scrawled in black magic marker. Maybe you’ve looked away, ashamed that you couldn’t or wouldn’t help out. “If I give him money, how do I know we won’t spend it on something inappropriate,” you rationalize. “After all, I can’t change the systemic causes of homelessness.” It is a convenient stereotype of…