Parent Leadership Training Institute
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Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) –
Waterbury Hospital has hosted the Waterbury PLTI since 2000.
Every year 16-20 parents successfully complete the program. In
2007, 19 area parents graduated from the program which empowers
them to become change agents and leaders in their communities,
neighborhoods, cities or towns by teaching them leadership and
advocacy skills and educating them about volunteerism, civic life
and the process by which State and Local governments enact and
change laws. State Senator Joan Hartley has been a strong
supporter and an advocate in securing funding for the program when
grant funding was reduced. Since its inception, the program has
trained more than 128 area parents. Funding for the program has
been given by the Parent Trust, George and Gracie Long Foundation,
Naugatuck Valley Saving and Loan Foundation, and the United Way.
Waterbury
Youth Pipeline
- The Waterbury Youth Pipeline
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With an eye toward the future, Waterbury Hospital, along with
Northwest Workforce Investment Board, the Waterbury Public Schools
and other partners, has developed a series of programs to educate
area students about health-care careers and prepare them to
matriculate and compete nationally for placement in post-secondary
education in the field through its innovative “Youth Pipeline.”
The Youth Pipeline has three components:
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1.) The Adopt-A-Classroom program in the city’s elementary
schools;
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2.) The Adopt-A-School/Providing Early Acquaintance with
Careers in Health (PEACH) program in the middle schools; and
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3.) The Healthcare Academy Initiative and the Smaller Learning
Communities/Ninth-Grade Academies in the high schools.
Adopt-A-Classroom at Walsh and Driggs Elementary Schools -
At the
elementary school level, the Adopt-A-Classroom Program (which was started in
2001 by Waterbury Hospital Director of Emergency Medicine Craig Mittleman, MD),
connects hospital health-care professionals with third-, fourth-, and
fifth-grade students at Walsh and Driggs elementary schools. Eight teams of two
Waterbury Hospital health-care professionals visit their “adopted” class four to
five times each school year, interacting with students and discussing topics
such as nutrition, hygiene, asthma education and bicycle safety. Outside the
classroom, the teams stay in touch with their younger students via e-mail. In
2007, 10 volunteers and 125 students participated in the program.
A PEACH of a Program -
At the
middle-school level, the PEACH Program works to increase academic achievement as
well as make students at North End Middle School aware of the full range of
health-care career options and preparing them for
 academic choices they have to
exercise in High School. Originally funded through a grant from the U.S. Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), PEACH provides information about
available health-care careers, exposes students to health-care professionals and
teaches a specialized curriculum (which includes mentoring and professional for
teachers and guidance counselors as well as student visits to Waterbury
Hospital). The program is one of 10 sites nationally to receive funding from
HRSA’s Adopt-A-School project, and was developed in collaboration with Northwest
Area Health Education Center, Waterbury Public Schools, Education Connection and
Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board. In 2007, the program was
sustained with funding from Waterbury Hospital, the Bank of America Foundation,
the Leever Foundation and the CT Community Foundation and Waterbury Public
Schools. One hundred and forty 7th graders from the Red House at
North End Middle School participated in the program.
Mentoring Ninth-Graders -
At the
high-school level, Waterbury Hospital is a leading partner with Waterbury Public
Schools in the city’s Smaller Learning Communities/Ninth Grade Academies
program. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the program seeks to
prepare ninth-graders to make academic choices that will define their life
goals, before entering the academies in the tenth grade. Since early 2005,
Waterbury Hospital has mentored the entire ninth-grade at Wilby High School,
providing 13 teams consisting of one to two mentors who volunteer an hour a week
for 25-30 weeks. In 2007, 29 volunteers from the hospital and approximately 300
students participated in the program. This program is funded by Waterbury
Hospital.
Contact:
Trish Spofford
Waterbury Hospital
Grants Coordinator
64 Robbins St
Waterbury, CT 06708
203-573-6240
Fax 573-7139
Email:
pspofford@wtbyhosp.org
Infectious Disease Clinic
HIV/AIDS Outreach
Waterbury
Hospital remained the largest provider of comprehensive care to the
approximately 420 (prevalence 800-1,000) Persons Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHA)
in Greater Waterbury, providing services since 1989. In 2005 the hospital’s
Infectious Diseases (ID) Clinic moved to expanded facilities on campus with six
exam rooms and a Consumer Resource Center. It is a full service
multi-disciplinary clinic and offers a full array of services including: primary
care, sub-specialty HIV specific care, sub-specialty Hepatitis C care, mental
health and substance abuse group and individual counseling, nutrition
counseling, prevention services, outreach, case management, medication
adherence, transportation and consumer education with referrals to OBGYN and
dental services. The Waterbury Hospital ID Clinic is funded primarily with
federal funding from Ryan White Part C for Early Intervention Services from for
the US Department of Health and Human Services HIV AIDS Bureau, Ryan White Part
A from the City of New Haven, the CT Department of Public Health for HIV
Prevention and Education, and small awards from Roche and Abbott
Pharmaceuticals. Waterbury Hospital also provides financial support for the ID
Clinic in excess of grants received, and writes off diagnostic lab and radiology
charges for uninsured patients.
Contact:
Juana Clarke
Diabetes Clinic
Contact:
Anita Salerno, APRN
asalerno@wtbyhosp.org
(203) 573-7152
Waterbury
Health Access Program
The Waterbury Health Access Program (WHAP) is a multi-institutional
collaborative of health organizations in Waterbury established with a federal
Health Resources and Services Administration grant in 2003 under the Healthy
Communities Access Program. The collaborative, a continuation of a Community
Action Grant coalition founded in 2000, was established to address systemic
obstacles to ongoing and high-quality medical care for uninsured and underserved
patients in the Greater Waterbury region. The primary service area consists of
the City of Waterbury and the 12 surrounding towns that make up the Central
Naugatuck Valley Region (CNVR), including: Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem,
Cheshire, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Prospect, Southbury, Thomaston, Watertown,
Wolcott, and Woodbury. The City of Waterbury is located in New Haven County and
borders both Litchfield and Hartford counties.
WHAP targets adults 18 to 64 who are under- or uninsured and links them with
primary care and sub-specialty physicians who provide donated care while
connecting patients with appropriate entitlements and pharmacy assistance.
Initially, the efforts of WHAP focused on three disease areas: HIV/AIDS,
Diabetes, Cancer and Depression.
Contact:
Diane Roy
Droy@wtbyhosp.org
(203) 573-7681
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