News & Notes
October 2017

Stroll, Eat, and Shop Our Store This Wednesday!

Visit our downtown thrift store, Homeward Bound Treasures, during New London's annual Fall Food Stroll on  Wednesday, October 11 (that's tomorrow!) from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Sample chocolate chip cookies made by students at the Light House Voc-Ed Center in Groton, browse our great selection of furniture and household goods and enter a drawing to win a $20 gift certificate. 

All proceeds from the store benefit the programs at the Hospitality Center.


Staying Healthy is Hard When You're Homeless

Getting medical care, including important prescriptions, can be a daunting challenge when you don't have a home. However, Community Health Center, Inc. helps make sure our guests are taken care of. CHC staff visit our shelter twice a week to offer everything from routine blood pressure checks to referrals for more complicated medical issues. No one is ever turned away because of lack of insurance.

Read more about our partnerships on our website.


Two of our exam rooms at the Homeless Hospitality Center


Building for the Future

We have new space at the Hospitality Center thanks to design services donated by architect Jonathan Butler. The addition to our Jarrett Center building includes better space for our Columbus House partners who provide services for vets, additional private space for meetings with guests, a new conference room for larger meetings and space for our some of our case managers.

Our thanks to Jon for his great design, to Ted Olynciw for his expert project management, and to the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management for an incentive grant that provided funding.

 

The generosity of people like you makes it possible for us to do the work that we do in the community.



Let us work together to create a homeless hospitality center in New London that will be a model for the rest of our region and our nation. Let us see the invisible poor, and live together with all our sisters and brothers in the beloved community the God of justice invites us to become.
-Emmett Jarrett