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Hispanic Health Council, along with its partner organizations, End Hunger Connecticut and the Connecticut Association for Human Services, is part of the solution. HHC's bi-lingual and bi-cultural counselors pre-screen would-be SNAP applicants, help them assemble the required documents, and act as a liaison between the client and DSS.

Our record: More than 80 percent of SNAP applicants pre-screened at HHC are approved on the first try! 

To learn more, listen to Sofia Segura-Perez, associate director of HHC's Center for Community Nutrition, interviewed by John Dankosky on WNPR's Where We Live.

Read more at CtMirror.com

    HARTFORD, MARCH 11, 2010 - Advocates for children marched from the Hispanic Health Council to the state Capitol Thursday to protest potentially devastating cuts to the state’s successful child abuse and neglect prevention network.
     Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants to cut the budget for prevention services provided by the Nurturing Families Network of the Children’s Trust Fund in half, eliminating 14 sites where the program is offered and shrinking each of the remaining sites by at least one-third.
      The Hispanic Health Council is one of the 42 sites across Connecticut that now provide trained home visitors who make weekly visits to vulnerable first-time mothers from the time of a baby's birth to the 5th birthday. During the past year, the program served close to 2,000 families statewide.
   Home visitors not only teach young clients to be better parents, they help them overcome traumatic or harsh experiences from their own childhoods to become stronger adults and better role models for their children.
    But if that’s not enough, look at the bottom line, says John M. Leventhal, MD, medical director of Child Abuse Prevention Programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. Providing preventive services to one family costs about $3,000 a year, Leventhal says. Compare that with $30,000 a year for a case of abuse or neglect substantiated by the state Department of Children and Families or the $44,000 a year cost of an adult who might go to prison if convicted in an abuse case.
  Call the governor. Call your legislators. Tell them that when it comes to child abuse and neglect, an ounce of prevention truly is worth a pound of cure. Save the Nurturing Families Network!!
The march was sponsored by Family Life Education. Read what Helen Ubinas had to say in The Hartford Courant.

The Comadrona/Healthy Start Program at the Hispanic Health Council uses trained community health workers to promote positive pregnancy outcomes and better maternal and infant health.

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On Aug. 6, 2009 The Hispanic Health Council hosted its 18th annual health fair. For some of the 800 adults and children who attended, this event is the only opportunity to receive vital preventive health care and information.

Each year, the fair takes place in South Green Park and in the Hispanic Health Council’s four-story building at 175 Main St. in Hartford, CT. 

While the fair provides vital health services to the community, it also fits with the HHC’s model of practice in which research, direct service and policy advocacy inform and strengthen each other to ensure that our programs are meeting community needs.