Talking to Adults About the Sandy Hook Shootings: Ways to Help

Talking to Adults About the Sandy Hook Shootings: Ways to Help

On Friday,  Dr. Tim Kearney, Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Community Health Centers, Inc. shared information about Talking with children about the recent school shooting in Sandy Hook.  Today, we are sharing information from Dr. Kearney about talking with adults.  The primary audience for this is for clinical staff at CHC, however, it is an important resource we want to share with the wider public. In the coming days, the impact of the recent shootings will be felt in nearly every conversation.  We…

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Look for the helpers

Look for the helpers

Saturday morning, a week and a half before Christmas.  It will be a busy weekend.  Today, I am supposed to go to see Santa at our local fire station, go to a family holiday party, and go to a party celebrating a friends election.  Tomorrow, I am supposed to go to Church, go to a memorial for my mother who died during Hurricane Sandy, and host a radio show with my daughter.  Yet as Social Media Manager for CHC, I…

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Talking with children about the recent school shooting in Sandy Hook 12/14/12

Talking with children about the recent school shooting in Sandy Hook 12/14/12

The following is a message from Dr. Tim Kearney, Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Community Health Centers, Inc. All of us as parents and those who work with children wish that we could protect them from the knowledge of the tragedies that occur in the world around them and from the impact that this knowledge has on them. Unfortunately we cannot; especially in this age of constant news feeds and social media.  We must therefore help them to develop the skills to…

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Danbury Homeless Connect

Danbury Homeless Connect

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…

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Help-Portrait 2012 Middletown – Follow Up

Help-Portrait 2012 Middletown – Follow Up

Smiles were in abundance this past Saturday at CHC, as a number of our HealthCorps Navigators and several staff members hosted the health center’s inaugural Help-Portrait event. Members of the Middletown community were invited to 675 Main Street, where high-quality portraits were taken – entirely free of charge – between 10am and 4pm. We were fortunate enough to have two photographers – Jesse Goldman and Daniel Robles – who volunteered their expertise throughout the day, and the result was sixty-six…

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