Wheeler's Values In Action

COMPASSION | DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION | INTEGRITY | TEAMWORK

January 28, 2025

We serve, in every program and service, an amazing diverse population who needs us, and we serve them with an amazing diverse staff. I use the word ‘diverse’ here to mean largely but not only race and ethnicity, and also backgrounds, views, experiences, identities, hopes, fears, and loves. Recent policy, in the spirit it's intended and in its literal words, goes right to the heart for many of our patients, staff, and community. 

We cannot change the reality of the work we do, nor remove my personal commitment to our values. This means that I walk in every day to guide an organization that provides compassionate, diverse and inclusive, welcoming, and responsive care for every patient, student, or client we serve. We do our work with integrity and with teamwork. We will continue to do this with every ability to do so, and as we find challenges, we find ways to adjust to them with those values as a North Star. 

This was true last week, it is true today, and it will be true tomorrow.

Sabrina Trocchi, PhD, MPA

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Cigna Group Foundation Funds Mobile Health Services in Hartford

With a new $250,000, multiyear grant, The Cigna Group Foundation is expanding access to health care in Hartford through a partnership with Wheeler Health.

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Serving the New Britain Community

On January 10th, we served our 1,600th family or individual through our biweekly partnership in New Britain with Connecticut Foodshare. Wheeler staff, volunteers from the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut, and Connecticut Clearinghouse braved the elements to provide food, vital information, and essential services. A team from M&T Bank came to help us on January 24 as well! This amazing mobile food pantry happens on alternate Fridays at our community health center at 40 Hart Street.

The Next Mobile Pantry

Friday, February 7th

10:45am-11:30am

40 Hart Street, New Britain

While supplies last

The Critical Need for Foster Families

In this state, there are more than 3,800 children in foster care and hundreds more who need loving homes. In the video above, Sharon Pendleton-Ponzani, LCSW, director, Wheeler Foster Care Programs, discusses the critical need for foster families in Connecticut and how Wheeler supports youth and their families throughout the foster care journey.

Wheeler's Northwest Village School Provides Practical Prep for Work, Life

Students at Wheeler’s Northwest Village School (NVS) have plenty of opportunities to acquire skills and experience that prepare them for the world of work through comprehensive prevocational programs. Each year, more than 50 middle and high school students are involved in the school's prevocational programs, and 10-15 students participate in training in the local community through positions at Gnazzo’s grocery store, the Barnes Nature Center, Connecticut Clearinghouse, and more.

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Healing at Home: MST and MDFT Programs at Wheeler Health

Every day, across the state, dozens of Wheeler clinicians step out of their cars, ring a doorbell, and change lives in the most intimate setting, a family’s home. 

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Applications Open For Second Class of Residents at Wheeler

Applications are open until April 2025 for the Fall 2025 class. Our primary care and psychiatry residency programs for nurse practitioners and physician assistants provide hands-on, mission-focused experience in a leading Federally Qualified Health Center with a focus on providing community-based care.

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Black History Month Discussions

Monday, February 10th, 1:30-2:30pm

Your Labor is Not in Vain:

Celebrating Resilience and Championing Advancement in Leadership

Dr. Sarah Renee Langley

Founder & CEO of LeadHER International

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Tuesday, February 18th, 10:00-11:00am

Black History Month Speaker

Honorable Nuchette Black-Burke

Mayor of Windsor, CT

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Your Generosity Can Change Lives