News from Wheeler

Wheeler received a $16,765 grant from the Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin, Inc., a supporting organization of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain, to support its Walk With Me program in New Britain.

Wheeler received a $7,500 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain to support its Walk With Me program in that city.

Each day in October, learn about a new LGBTQIA+ icon.

Sabrina Trocchi, PhD, MPA, president and chief executive officer, Wheeler, was a guest on the April 23 edition of Connoisseur Media’s “For the People” radio show and highlighted a grant from Connecticut Community Foundation’s Pride in the Hills Fund to support Wheeler’s Walk With Me program in Waterbury.

Wheeler received a $7,000 grant from Connecticut Community Foundation’s Pride in the Hills Fund to support its Walk With Me program. The grant will be used to support the work of a peer support specialist and enhance and expand parent/caregiver services for LGBTQIA+ families.

Free food, family activities, music, and more will be part of a Spring Fling Festival & Health Fair at the Wheeler Family Health & Wellness Center, 855 Lakewood Road, Waterbury, on Friday, April 21, 2023, from 3 pm to 6 pm.

John and Brian Pica-Sneeden started their foster care journey nearly 30 years ago. Since then, they have adopted six of their foster children – one as recently as last month!

Wheeler received a $5,000 grant from the Bristol Brass General Grant Fund at the Main Street Community Foundation to support its Walk With Me program. The grant will be used to support the work of a peer support specialist and enhance and expand parent/caregiver services for LGBTQIA+ families.

More than 60 community leaders, donors, neighbors, and Wheeler staff and trustees celebrated Wheeler’s newly renovated and expanded Family Health & Wellness Center in Plainville.

A $100,000 gift is funding the creation of a specialized service to provide transgender adolescents and young adults with peer support, medical care, and gender-responsive therapy. “Walk With Me” will launch this spring at Wheeler’s community health centers in Plainville and Hartford. It is an outpatient treatment track for LGBTQ+-identifying young people ages 10-25.

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, we are sharing our very first Visibility Campaign, where we look to our diverse and talented staff, to tell their stories and shed light on the rich cultural diversity that exists in our workforce.

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, we are sharing our very first Visibility Campaign, where we look to our diverse and talented staff, to tell their stories and shed light on the rich cultural diversity that exists in our workforce.

Wheeler shares stories during LGBTQ+ History Month of our diverse and talented staff to shed light on the rich cultural diversity that exists in our workforce.