When you support United Way, you’re helping create healthier beginnings and healthier lives.
When you support United Way, you’re helping create healthier beginnings and healthier lives.
We invest in programs and initiatives that offer: preventative and routine healthcare; developmental screenings; access to healthy food; promoting healthy behaviors and health-related income supports (such as, SNAP, WIC, and HUSKY). We’re also working in community partnerships focused on improving health outcomes across our region. Here are some examples:
2-1-1: 2-1-1 provides a one-stop connection for healthcare access, and health-related services and supports. 2-1-1 is there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year to help people find what they need (https://www.211ct.org/).
North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative: The North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative is a multi-sector team focused on population health improvement. Residents and partner organizations from the business, non-profit, healthcare and government sectors are working together to design a neighborhood-level health strategy that exemplifies the “triple aim” of improved well-being, improved population health and reduced healthcare system costs in the North Hartford Promise Zone.