Goals are to increase public awareness, promote prevention through educational programs and advocacy, and secure funding for the support services we provide for our clients.

AIDS Project New Haven is the oldest AIDS service organization in the state of Connecticut. Formed by a small group of individuals in 1983, it has expanded to provide service throughout the greater New Haven area.

An agency committed to making a positive difference in the lives of children, primarily through a professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationship with a caring adult assisting a child in achieving their highest potential.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Connecticut is a non-profit agency that provides adult mentors to children. We recruit, carefully screen and train caring adults to act as mentors, match them with children, and support them.
 

Hungry people do not live only in third-world countries, but strive to survive in our local community. Since they tend to live outside the mainstream, their presence is often overlooked. The mission of the Branford Food Council is simple-to provide groceries for families in need.

The Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc. is a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, CT.

Our mission is to promote and protect the legal rights and interests of poor children who are dependent upon the judicial, child welfare, health and mental health, education, and juvenile justice systems for their care.

Church on the Rock is committed to the development of Youth within and beyond the church community.  Toward this end, we endeavor to make ourselves available in various mentoring capacities.

Our mission is to provide accessible community-based mental health services and advocacy that promote healthy and resilient lives for children and families.

Founded in 1985, the Community Dining Room (CDR) is a private, not-for-profit organization providing food, support and companionship to our shoreline neighbors. In the spring of 2000, the CDR moved to its present location in the Volunteer Services Center. With this additional space, the CDR expanded its home delivery program and began an evening family dinner.

The Farmers' Market Foods Infusion Project (FMFIP) is a partnership of the Connecticut Children's Museum and CitySeed Farmers' Markets. The project focuses on literacy and healthy foods for the children in preschool classrooms and licensed family childcare homes. The curriculum combines literacy, music, art and healthy food activities for pre-schoolers to take home and share with their families, free food coupons and access to the farmers' markets.

The mission of Connecticut Urban Education fund is to give under-served and economically disadvantaged children a grade 5-8 education that leads to acceptance in an excellent college preparatory school and then into a college or university.

The program is a multi-agency collaboration providing budget coaching, financial education, workforce development and case management to low-income single female households residing in the Hill section of New Haven with the end result of helping families achieve greater financial stability. The program will serve 40 families.

The Jobs and English for New Americans program at IRIS --Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services -- will provide intensive workforce development opportunities and English Language learning to refugees, persecuted people from around the world. This program will enable refugees to achieve economic self-sufficiency within their first six months in the U.S., laying the foundation for their continued financial success as they build new lives in this country. The program will serve 75 refugees.

Community based organization providing positive youth development opportunities for boys and girls age five to nineteen.  19.9%

FISH brings emergency supplies of food staples to needy families in the New Haven area.  On average, we provide service to 350 families per month - 75% of whom are families with children and the elderly.

The program provides housing counseling and foreclosure mitigation to greater New Haven residents facing loss of housing to foreclosure, eviction, and lead abatement to ensure long-term stability in safe and affordable housing. The program anticipates providing housing counseling to 100 families affected by mortgage delinquency or foreclosure, foreclosure mitigation/rental assistance services to 35 families, lead abatement services to 40 families, pre-purchase counseling to 35 families, and active involvement in monitoring and informing housing policy.

Located in the Dixwell/Newhallville area of the City of New Haven, the proposed program will provide educational resources and training to teen parents to increase their knowledge of the important developmental milestones their children must meet to come to school success- ready. Key services include expanding opportunities for parents to learn child development skills and increase their involvement in their child’s school, supporting families’ efforts to access early care and education programs and assist teens to graduate from high school or obtain their GED.

The program is designed to help unemployed or under employed greater New Haven residents achieve self-reliance and financial security through intensive case management, care coordination, life skills, workforce development / education, and life skills. The program anticipates serving 40 individuals.

LEAP is an academic and social enrichment program for children and youth, ages 7 to 23. Our mission is to develop the strengths and talents of young leaders who create and implement year-round, community-based programs designed to achieve positive academic and social outcomes for children living in high poverty urban neighborhoods. LEAP is an AmeriCorps Program.

Life Haven Childcare Center is a licensed daycare, providing services year-round for up to 18 children, ten hours a day, from ages six weeks to five years old. The center is inside the shelter and services families that are living in the shelter, those participating in the Aftercare program or coming from other shelters, and those in the local community. The center provides families with a safe and consistent setting to leave their children as they secure permanent housing and/or employment.

The program will provide financial education, case management, and character-based auto loans to low-income greater New Haven working families to help them increase their earning potential, credit worthiness, and knowledge of household finances to move out of the cycle of poverty and toward greater financial stability. The program anticipates serving 54 individuals and closing 42 auto loans.

Common Ground’s Green Jobs Corps puts 30+ disadvantaged high school students on pathways to green careers, economic security, and environmental leadership. Corps members take on paid jobs at Solar Youth, City Seed, Common Ground, and the Urban Resources Initiative. They also take part in a year-long leadership/career development program, and connect to academic and personal supports. They graduate on track to college and career success, contributing to family income, and taking on real leadership.

The Transitional Housing Program (THP) offers women and their children who are living in family shelters in New Haven the opportunity to access supportive services and supportive housing. NHHR proposes to use United Way funding to increase the number of families they are able to serve annually through the THP. Residents in all of the New Haven family shelters, including Christian Community Action and LifeHaven, are eligible to apply for services. The program will serve 5 families.

Foreclosure Program

The program addresses the legal needs of low-income tenants residing in greater New Haven foreclosed properties through free legal representation, educational workshops, and advocacy. The program anticipates providing legal representation to 85 individuals and housing counseling to 1,000 individuals.

Income Assistance

URI’s GreenSkills program will employ formerly incarcerated adults and local low-income teens in street-tree planting, stewardship, and Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring for the city of New Haven. GreenSkills was designed to address two pressing needs: a declining tree canopy and low rates of employment. GreenSkills provides technical training in planting large trees, maintenance, and GPS. The program will serve 40 young adults and 24 ex-offenders.

Read to Grow is a statewide nonprofit organization that helps build early literacy for Connecticut’s children. It is the only statewide organization that places books in the hands of parents at their baby’s birth. Books for Babies encourages parents to seize the window of opportunity for bonding and brain development that exists early in each child’s life. Free children’s books are also provided to families and programs in need as well as parental guidance on building the foundation for later literacy and learning.

SOLAR YOUTH, INC. is a non-profit environmental education and youth development organization founded in the fall of 2000 based on work piloted by its founders - Joanne Sciulli, Heather Gilbert and a group of New Haven's youth.

The Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center (NAEYC accredited) will improve the school readiness of 32 young children of teenage parents by providing daily quality early childhood education and care and by providing developmental assessments that identify children who need special services. The program will also support the teenage parents’ parenting skills by helping 32 teenage parents remain in and complete high school and by providing parent education, support and counseling to the teenage parents.

The Family Support Collaborative (FSC) provides supportive housing and family support specialist services for low income, at-risk families who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. Families may struggle with Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Cognitive Impairment and/or HIV/AIDS and live in the greater New Haven area. The primary goal of the program is to assist families in obtaining safe, affordable and decent housing in the community. The program will serve 15 families.

Two certified, experienced classroom teachers work with 25 at-risk kindergarten and pre-kindergarten students. Each student receives two hours of instruction a week in a small-group setting (2-5 students). Instructional time focuses on core academic and social concepts, including phonemic awareness, alphabetic knowledge and sight word recognition. All children will be assessed on writing their names, reciting the alphabet, letter recognition, consonant sounds, and Dolch Sight Words.

The West Haven Community House -- a private, not for profit organization -- exists to facilitate healthy, productive, independent and meaningful lives for children, adolescents and families, and individuals with disabilities. The cornerstone social service agency of West Haven, the Community House annually provides services to 1,000 area residents.

 The Department of Community Services enhances the quality of life for Hamden residents by providing educational, recreational and social services and responding to the needs of our citizens during emergencies and through tough economic times. Whether the need is for emergency fuel, employment, food or shelter, Community Services is there to provide assistance and offer support for Hamden families.

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Committed to Becoming Active Disciples of Christ through the study of the Bible; then giving Christian Leadership
 

 WHEAT was founded by local church leaders in 1975 as a central place where needy residents could receive nonperishable food.
Although WHEAT receives between 15 to 20 percent of its funds from the federal government, the remainder of the charity's operating budget comes from private donors and foundations.

The agency offers canned goods and dry food to needy adults and families as long as they can prove that they live in West Haven. Needy residents can receive groceries four times in one year and a holiday basket for Thanksgiving or Christmas.