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Family Centers’ Community Health Workers (CHW) Team (l-r) Family Centers’ Chief Health Officer Dennis Torres, Community Health Worker Luis Hernandez, Community Health Worker Senan Agblonon and Community Health Worker Initiative Supervisor Frank O’Driscoll.
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Family Centers’ Community Health Workers (CHW) Team (l-r) Family Centers’ Chief Health Officer Dennis Torres, Community Health Worker Luis Hernandez, Community Health Worker Senan Agblonon and Community Health Worker Initiative Supervisor Frank O’Driscoll.
lessFamily Centers’ Community Health Workers (CHW) Team (l-r) Family Centers’ Chief Health Officer Dennis Torres, Community Health Worker Luis Hernandez, Community Health Worker Senan Agblonon and Community
... moreA strict two-week quarantine isn’t necessarily easy for anyone.
For people in need, whose shelves might not be as well stocked as those in more affluent households, the challenge can be even greater.
Family Centers is gearing up a new service to help them.
The nonprofit has contracted with the city of Stamford to help people forced to stay in due to a positive test or direct exposure.
“Our team knows the city of Stamford,” said Family Centers Vice President Bill Brucker. “They know the community and they will act as outreach workers to connect those who have tested positive to the necessary resources in the community. Family Centers is already providing services to local families so we have a built-in network and a deep knowledge of the other resources in the community.”
The grant is scheduled to run through the end of March 2021. Family Centers officials said the goal is to help 400 families by then.
The four Family Centers community health workers who will staff the unit are “boots on the ground” who can interface with families and work with them on a daily basis, Brucker said.
They will work with families to meet their needs, without them having to go out.
“They might not have enough food in their homes and we certainly do not want them to go out to the store after they’ve tested positive or if they’ve been exposed to someone who has COVID,” Dennis Torres, Family Center’s vice president of Health Care Programs, said. “They might be getting a call they’re not ready for and we want to be there to talk to these people and make sure they have enough food and find out what they need to stay home for 14 days.”
The team will work with city and state contact tracers to help identify potential need.
“You can’t go out and buy two weeks of fresh food in advance,” Torres said. “And there are other issues that might emerge. They might be working but not have sick time and aren’t going to have any money so they’re worried about making their rent. There might be issues with the electric bills or other bills that are coming in. We can assess the need and make referrals to help plug those holes.”
The evaluation also will look at potential mental health needs. Providers, including Family Centers, have been adapting their services during the pandemic to help people without being face to face.
The new service will be funded by a $214,500 grant the city won recently from the Connecticut Health Foundation.
“As the epicenter for the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut we are very delighted to obtain this funding which will help us enhance our outreach into the community,” said Stamford Health Director Jennifer Calder. “As Stamford continues to rebound from the effects of COVID-19, we must focus on the well being of our residents in order to sustain the health of our community.”
Currently, the service will be limited to Stamford, but Family Centers, based in Greenwich, services clients in Greenwich, Darien and New Canaan too.
Family Centers also offers twice-weekly testing in Greenwich and Stamford.
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