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Tomorrow marks the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, a national day of smoking cessation awareness. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 65% of smokers want to quit, they are just unsuccessful. On October 7th, The Community Health Center’s Weitzman Quality Institute (WQI) launched the Rewards to quit…

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“How could anyone ever tell you, YOU were anything less than beautiful? How could anyone ever tell you, YOU were less than whole? How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle? How deeply you’re connected to my soul?” “Long term Domestic Violence is like being kidnapped and tortured for ransom but you never have enough to pay off the kidnapper.” These powerful words are just a snapshot of the messages written on over 50,000 tee shirts…

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WHAT: Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) and their Domestic Violence service, New Horizons, are hosting an event to raise awareness about Domestic violence, specifically in the Middletown area.  The event will consist of a few women speaking about their own experiences with domestic violence followed by a presentation of the Clothesline project. The Clothesline project involves a display of dozens of t-shirts, which have been individually decorated with thoughts, emotions and artwork by victimized women who have been sheltered at…

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Every Fall, the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce (founded in 1895!!) organizes a Business Expo that takes place at the Crowne Plaza in Cromwell. The Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) is a member of the chamber and has participated in the Expo for 15 years. By partaking in the Expo, each organization is assigned a booth and able to present their business or a message to the hundreds of people who attend the daylong event. Currently, the Chamber has over 2,000…

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On Thursday, October 17TH, MARC: Community Resources, held their 58th annual meeting at the Middletown Elks Club where members from the Middletown Garden Club were recognized with the “Volunteer of the Year” award. MARC: Community Resources, is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of adults and children with disabilities in employment, vocational, elderly, recreation and habilitative programs. Last winter, an opportunity to have MARC host one of their recreation groups on the Community Health Center, Inc. rooftop was just an idea…

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