Community Service

The Senior Center offers a variety of services and programs to our area’s senior population. From computer and aerobic classes to counseling services and food programs, the Bristol Senior Center has something for everyone!

https://www.bristolct.gov/257/Senior-Center 

ConnectiKids Inc. is a nonprofit positive youth development organization that focuses on educating, enriching, and empowering Hartford’s youth. We work directly with three elementary schools, West Middle Community School, Dr. James H. Naylor School, and Michael D. Fox Elementary School, with students in kindergarten to fifth grade. We work with one middle school, Martin Luther Jr. Middle School, to serve students in sixth to eighth grade. We provide one-on-one or small group tutoring, mentoring, arts, book club, and enrichment throughout the academic year and summer program during summer break. With these programs, we expose our students to new people, places, and experiences that aid in positive growth and development.

https://ct-kids.org

The Department of Social and Youth Services is an advocate for individuals, children, and families. We promote the well-being, self-sufficiency, and quality of life for residents of Bloomfield by providing help and referral services for those facing a variety of problems.

https://www.bloomfieldct.gov/social-youth-services/food-resources/pages/mobile-ct-foodshare

Hands On Hartford, in partnership with others, strengthens community in Hartford by responding faithfully to people in need through programs that change lives and renew human possibility.

https://handsonhartford.org/about/about-2/

Cathedral of Saint Joseph religious education

https://www.hartfordcathedral.org/who-we-are.html

As the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Hartford, this beautiful church is the place where the local Archbishop presides over services attended by Catholics from throughout the Archdiocese. The Cathedral is also a parish in its own right, serving. Catholics living in the Asylum Hill section of Hartford and in surrounding areas.

The Center for Children’s Advocacy (CCA) was founded in 1997 by long-time civil rights attorney Martha Stone. Attorney Stone wanted to create a nonprofit law firm that specialized in children’s legal issues, and envisioned an organization that would bring legal resources from the law office to community sites easily accessible by children and youth; be a one-stop shop providing holistic legal services to meet all of a child’s legal needs, including education, abuse and neglect, and access to health care; depend on very little state money, enabling zealous legal advocacy for child clients even in cases involving the state; have an interdisciplinary focus, partnering with medical and education professionals to bring expertise from those fields to children’s cases.

https://cca-ct.org/about-us/

Our trained reading mentors work in local public schools with at-risk students one-on-one or in small groups to improve comprehension, advance reading fluency, build confidence, and promote a love and interest in reading. Each volunteer commits to working with the same child throughout the school year on a weekly basis.

https://www.jewishhartford.org/childrens-reading-partners

Faithful to the teaching and message of Jesus Christ, Center Church is an Open and Affirming congregation whose doors are open to all God’s children regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, social background, political views, nationality, ethnicity, mental or physical ability, immigration status or religious tradition. Our members come from the city as well as many of the surrounding suburbs. Old and young, straight and gay, married and single, young professionals and retired: friends and members of Center Church are drawn together by their shared commitment to being an example of Christian love and solidarity in the heart of the City of Hartford.

https://centerchurchhartford.org

The iQuilt Partnership exists to promote cultural vitality and a robust public domain in the city of Hartford, and throughout the Hartford region. Over the last 12 years, iQuilt has developed connections among hundreds of community groups, corporations, and individuals, developing a reputation for high-impact community engagement efforts that have delivered projects promoting walkng, culture and innovation. These projects support collaborative community visions that promote sustainability, prosperity, equity, mobility and vibrancy.

https://www.theiquiltplan.org

United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut’s mission is to engage and bring together people and resources committed to the well-being of children and families in our community.

https://unitedwayinc.org

Together with Saint Francis Hospital, other committed community leaders, and with crucial financial support from then-Archbishop Henry Mansell and the Archdiocese of Hartford, the group determined that a mobile clinic was the correct model for Hartford; this way, critically needed primary health care would be delivered right into the neighborhoods where it was needed most, on a van that would be parked at trusted, safe sites close to the patients’ homes and jobs.

https://maltahouseofcare.org

The School serves children and families in West Hartford and other neighboring communities. The School also functions as an exemplary demonstration teaching model for University of Saint Joseph students and other early childhood educators. Since 1985, The School has been accredited through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

https://www.schoolforyoungchildren.org