Fellowship Place joined the American Heart Association’s Wear Red Campaign on February 1 to raise awareness about women’s heart health. Special activities were held in the Social Rehab Center to raise awareness about heart health and the important role of 
exercise and good eating habits.
On Tuesday January 28, Fellowship Place hosted a coffee with area legislators on our New Haven campus, for a conversation with consumers, including family members and program participants, and members of the Fellowship Place Board. The morning discussion, which focused on why non-clinical services are so important to the mental health service system, was followed by a campus tour. Thank you to Senator George Logan, Representative Pat Dillon, Representative Kathy Kennedy, Representative Robin Comey, Senator James Maroney, and Dr. Dakibu Muley and Carlos Sosa-Lombardo of the City of New Haven Community Services Administration. We greatly appreciate them taking time out of their busy schedules to listen to first-hand accounts from our consumers, their families, and our staff about the challenges that exist today for those receiving and providing mental health services in our community. We are grateful for your support.
Theatre Fairfield’s production of David Auburn’s play “Proof”, performed Jan. 25 through Jan. 27, was outstanding–college theatre at its best. Director Shannon Kelley and the cast captured the agony, fear, and loss experienced by families facing the mental illness of a loved one and, at the same time, left the audience with a sense of hope.
Special thanks to Theatre Fairfield and the Student Independent Project for donating proceeds from the production to Fellowship’s Expressive Arts program.
This week Fellowship Place broke ground on the final phase of the Campus Renovation Plan began in 2007. The project entails the demolition and replacement of a nonfunctional, dilapidated garage with a new maintenance storage facility. In addition to housing equipment and supplies, the facility will offer a maintenance job-training opportunity for clients who want to learn warehouse skills such as inventory tracking and storage. The project is being funded with a CT Non-profit Grant for infrastructure improvements from the Office of Policy & Management and private donations. With the support of various public/private partnerships, over the last 12 years Fellowship Place has transformed the once old and tired buildings that make up its campus, into vibrant welcoming centers where people living with a serious mental illness may find daily structure, an array of productive activities, and positive social connections. Special thanks to our supporters for making the campus transformation more than just a dream.
Fellowship Place clients participated in valuable health screenings and received important health & wellness information at the agency’s annual health fair. Exhibiting community agencies included Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale Cancer Center, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, SCSU Nursing Students, and others. A special thank you to the New Haven Dept. of Health, which provided free flu shots.
