Beyond food vouchers, the WIC staff reaches out into the community to educate and counsel women and children at nutritional risk. Provides internship opportunities for 36 high school students for a 16-week period in the spring semester. This classroom and on-site hospital program familiarizes students with career options in the medical field. The institute provides training for pastors and key lay persons in pastoral care and support for persons and their families in times of illness and hospitalization. Participants meet for two hours on a weekday evening during the course of the institute.
Class size is limited.
The Rev. Peg Lewis . Mutual Respect Committee members organize periodic hospitalwide drives to collect items to help both patients and local community agencies. The new homes are targeted to low-income families. Task Force Consortium on Substance Abusing Women and their Children United Way Advocacy Connecticut Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation Established by Yale-New Haven to promote awareness throughout Connecticut about organ and tissue donation. This nonprofit organization is composed of seven member agencies and volunteer members including state chapters of the American Heart Association, National Kidney Foundation and American Liver Foundation, as well as the Conn. Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation, ESRD Network of New England, Northeast Organ Procurement Organization and Tissue Bank and YNHH Transplant Center.