We’re winding down the month here at PARTNRS with a fantastic Friday. We had a busy day today in the office with the PARTNRS team hosting 9 interviews of new parents. July was also one of our busiest months ever, conducting a whopping 52 interviews! This is just another reason why we love our PARTNRS Parents!
August–Here we come!
New Haven is lucky to have quality community health centers that provide medical and social support to young families in Connecticut – Cornell Scott Hill Health Center is one of those centers. Hill Health Center is a qualified community health center with numerous staff, such as physicians, mental health professionals, nurses and nurse practitioners, certified phlebotomists, social workers, nutritionists, dentists and dental hygienists. The health center provides quality health care services including outreach to homeless individuals and families, Birth-to-Three services for developmentally delayed children, school-based health centers, outreach and social/educational services for pregnant teenagers, HIV/AIDS education and outreach to at-risk populations, alcohol and drug detoxification programs, transitional shelter for homeless men, and a child and family guidance clinic. The center accepts most insurance, and is an excellent resource for primary and preventative care in New Haven.
You can find the Hill Health Center at multiple locations, which are listed below. For more information, visit http://www.hillhealthcenter.com/.
PARTNRS would like to thank Hill Health Center for their work in improving the physical and mental health of young men and women in New Haven through primary care and prevention! We’re glad to have their assistance in working towards the goal of strengthening families and relationships among young people and preventing the spread of HIV and STDs in our community!
Locations:
New Haven
West Haven
Ansonia/Derby
School-Based Health Clinics
130 Orchard Street
New Haven, CT 06519
Call: (203) 946-7103
375 Quinnipiac Avenue
New Haven, CT 06513
Call: (203) 946-7245
150 Fournier Street
New Haven, CT 06519
Call: (203) 946-6602
200 Wilmont Road
New Haven, CT 06515
Call: (203) 946-8640 or (203) 946-2933
At PARTNRS, we are always welcoming new contributors to the project in an effort to bring in new thoughts, ideas and energy toward our effort to strengthen families and prevent the spread of HIV and STIs. We are also grateful for the previous contributions of many who have since moved on to wonderful positions and places, as they have helped make PARTNRS into what it is today. We have contributors that have moved on to places like SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Data Analysis Coordination and Consolidation Center, Harvard Medical School, a Physician’s Assistant program, a Yale Faculty appointment, etc. Check out our updated Research Team page to learn more about the current team and where previous contributors are now! The PARTNRS Team click here…
The Fair Haven Community Health Center has been a nonprofit organization since 1971, serving the New Haven community. The health center is comprised of numerous physicians and nurse practitioners that are eager to serve the healthcare needs of their patients. Their goal is “to serve the community in a manner that respects their culture, language and ethnic beliefs. “ When they use the term community, they imply from the littlest child to the oldest elder. Everyone is welcomed to the Fair Haven Community Health Center. Adults can receive checkups, physical exams, cancer screening, as well as chronic disease screenings. Specialists are also available for patients. FHCHC especially encourages adolescents to visit for all their health needs.
FHCHC also provides extensive prenatal care, including prenatal visits, delivery by the midwife at the Hospital of St. Raphael, a home visit by a midwife after the delivery, and post-partum care. Social services are also available to help patients with housing, personal, and financial problems. FHCHC also administers STD testing. The Fair Haven Community Health Center main site is open Monday through Thursday 8:45 AM to 8:30 AM. The Friday schedule is 1:00P M to 5:00 PM. For more information in regarding the center, log onto www.fhchc.org!
Here at PARTNRS, we’d like to thank FHCHC for providing young couples and families in New Haven with affordable health services, and for contributing to the fight against STDs and HIV!
The PARTNRS Team is excited to welcome four new summer interns to our office this week! The interns were selected through a competitive process from over 80 qualified applicants. They will play an essential role in recruiting and interviewing participants at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of St. Raphael, as well as completing tasks around the office. In addition, they will gain valuable exposure to the public health field through workshops and presentations by notable speakers. We’re incredibly excited to have them as a part of our team, and are looking forward to a successful summer!
The 2010 Summer Intern Team is comprised of:
Jeanine Hernandez, who is currently a psychology major at Southern Connecticut State University.
Joshua Thomas, who just graduated from Hill Regional Career High School and who will be attending Southern Connecticut State University in the fall.
Lenise Fields, who just graduated from Metropolitan Business Academy/Polly T. McCabe School and who will be pursuing a career in nursing.
Kauaneekee Vasquez, who just graduated from Wilbur Cross High School and who will be attending Monroe College in the fall.
WELCOME INTERNS!
New Haven’s Polly T. McCabe Center boasts graduation rates and hosts rare services not found at traditional schools. It serves about 40-50 students at a time from grades 7th-12th. Polly T. McCabe Center located in New Haven, CT is a transitional school for pregnant teens. The overall goal of the center is for the students to have a smooth transition back into traditional school after they have given birth. These students are able to meet this goal because the school follows New Haven Public School system’s calendars, curricula, and schedules. Students are offered social and medical services at school which gives them the much needed support outside the classroom. For example, nurses lead daily classes in childbirth birth, prenatal development, family planning and infant care. These nurses also provide individual counseling to help teens plan for their present and future lives.
Research has shown that teens who attended were less likely to have another baby two years after giving birth to their first child and were also less likely to give birth five years after the birth of their first child. This research also reveals that of those students who had not had a second child within the first two years of the first, 69 percent of teens had remained in school and earned passing grades or graduated, compared with 35 percent of the teens who delivered a second child within two years. These students who do not repeat child birth within this time frame are more likely to continue onto college and graduate and have less of a chance of only relying on public assistance in the next 6 years. According to researchers from Yale University and the University of Virginia, personal attention and active consideration of the whole student—recognizing her as a student, a mother and a teen is key to Polly T. T. McCabe’s success.
If you’d like to learn more about Polly McCabe’s success, follow this link:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1329&Itemid=336
On behalf of everyone on the PARTNRS team we are very thankful for Polly T. McCabe’s support of young mothers in New Haven, and for their kind assistance with our research process. We are also excited to welcome a recent Polly McCabe graduate to our staff as a member of the 2010 PARTNRS Summer Internship and Research Training Program! We’re grateful to be partnering with such an excellent organization in the quest to support young people in New Haven during their transition to parenthood, and to build strong families in our community!
For more information:
Visit Polly T. McCabe at:
21 Wooster Place, New Haven, CT 06511
Or Call: 203-946-8758 / 203-946-6423