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Awesome Partners Working Together 

The Center is dedicated to providing high quality, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health services to individuals and families, in the Greater Bridgeport area, especially the uninsured, who reside in the medically underserved Southwest Bridgeport community.


Southwest Community Health Center is the provider of choice for all residents of the Southwest Bridgeport community, and is recognized as a leader in the community health field that engages in cooperative alliances with other agencies dedicated to the total well-being of the people in the community.


A Program of Catholic Charities of Fairfield County, Inc. located in Bridgeport, Connecticut


The Thomas Merton Center is committed to providing a loving, safe, and hope-filled community atmosphere that responds to the needs of its guests and residents and respects the dignity of each person. We reflect to the individual and the community our shared responsibility to love and support one another.

     

Bridgeport Hospital’s (BH) mission is to provide superior patient care and satisfaction in an efficient, compassionate environment. Bridgeport Hospital is committed to continuously improving the patient experience using performance management initiatives.


Every year, as part of the BH’s vital mission to promote health and wellness throughout the Greater Bridgeport region, Bridgeport Hospital (BH), sponsors, develops and participates in a wide variety of community-based programs and services: Guaranteeing Access to Care; Advancing Careers in Health Care; Promoting Health & Wellness; Building Stronger Neighborhoods; and Creating Healthier Communities.

 

About Alpha
Alpha Community Services YMCA

The Alpha Community Services YMCA is a branch of the Central Connecticut Coast YMCA Association. The CCC Y is a charitable, not-for-profit, community service organization dedicated to putting Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The Y strengthens the foundations of communities and families through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility in twenty-four towns and cities.

The YMCA, historically, stands by our promise to serve ALL, regardless of their ability to pay. This aid to families supports our efforts to; build youth of strong character, to make our communities healthier, to close the educational achievement gap, to ensure ALL members of our communities are safe in and around water and to put an end to chronic homelessness. Each May, a Walk to End Homelessness is held in Bridgeport to raise friends, funds and support for the homeless members of our surrounding communities.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Annual Walk was postponed, but we are back and we are here.

Alpha Community Services YMCA continued delivering support and services to the residents in need. During the onset of Covid-19 and subsequent guidelines for distancing and recommended closures, the Alpha Community Services YMCA

  • Retrofitted the South End Community Center to be an emergency overflow shelter. The shelter was opened on March 24th in order to expand services and commitment to those who may not have a place to call home, 
  • Partnered with local hotels to utilize currently empty hotel rooms as a way to house those who may have a higher risk of contracting the Coronavirus, 
  • Retrofitted the Bridgeport YMCA to be an Isolation Space for patients discharged from Bridgeport Hospital, unable to return to their homes or communities. These patients received the care, attention, shelter and support they need for a full recovery from COVID-19,
  • Served tens of thousands of meals during this pandemic to including key meals for the vulnerable individuals who stayed in our emergency hotel and other isolations spaces,
  • Served thousands of meals in shelter programs, to ensure that breakfast and dinner are guaranteed to our clients on a regular basis. Provided laptops supporting children with distant learning requirements along with online health and wellness activities, and
  • Provided tens of thousands of meals to help our clients to maintain social distancing and continue to stay safe and healthy, within our supportive housing sites.

With a growing unstable economy and financial uncertainty of many Fairfield County households, our work is far from done. 

We are proud to announce the 20th Annual Walk to End Homelessness, returning to Captain's Cove with a big celebration on May 22nd.  Registration begins at 8:30am and the Walk at 9:00am.

Please Save the Date and consider joining us in a virtual celebration, to end chronic homelessness.

The Central Connecticut Coast YMCA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, charitable community service organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. No goods or services were provided in exchange for your generous financial donation.