Gawryl and MacAllister Attorneys at Law have a deep commitment to serving the needs of the community, particularly the disabled community, both disabled adults and disabled children. When individuals have medical disabilities, often family members are impacted as well. Disabilities can be physical in nature, mental in nature, or a combination of both. Gawryl and MacAllister stand out as having a decades-long legacy of success helping people with disabilities.
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New London Homeless Hospitality Center
The Homeless Hospitality Center is a place of safety and welcome to adults facing homelessness in southeastern Connecticut. About 600 people will seek help this year. HHC welcomes every individual as their guest at their shelter and Daytime Hospitality Center on State Pier Road in New London.
Email: info@nlhhc.org
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) is a non-profit agency whose mission is to help refugees and other displaced people establish new lives, strengthen hope, and contribute to the vitality of Connecticut’s communities. IRIS is a non-sectarian, independent nonprofit refugee resettlement agency that has welcomed more than 5,000 refugees to Connecticut since 1982.
Welcoming persecuted people from other countries is America’s most noble tradition. IRIS helps newcomers on the road to self-sufficiency by providing lifesaving support during their transition to life in the United States.
Email: info@irisct.org
Roca, Inc.
Roca’s mission is to be a relentless force in disrupting incarceration, poverty, and racism by engaging the young people, police, and systems at the center of urban violence to address trauma, find hope, and drive change.
Email: info@rocainc.com
Connecticut Center for Addiction Recovery
Along with organizing the recovery community (people in recovery, family members, friends and allies) to 1) put a face on recovery and 2) provide recovery support services, CCAR also promotes recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction through advocacy, education and service. CCAR strives to end discrimination surrounding addiction and recovery, open new doors and remove barriers to recovery, maintain and sustain recovery regardless of the pathway, all the while ensuring that all people in recovery, and people seeking recovery, are treated with dignity and respect.
Email: rebecca@ccar.us
Our Piece of the Pie
Our Piece of the Pie, Inc. (OPP®) empowers youth with the key competencies needed to overcome barriers and succeed in education and employment.
The organization serves young people ages 14-24 in Greater Hartford and Eastern CT, who have one or more of the following risk factors: under-credited and overaged, Child Welfare involved, justice involved, low income and unemployed or under-employed.
OPP utilizes a framework and competency to address issues of injustice by establishing within the agency a shared language to examine data, understand underlying conditions and identify root causes of inequities affecting the population served.
Email: info@opp.org
826 Boston
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.
Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with individualized attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this understanding in mind, they provide after-school tutoring, field trips, creative writing workshops, in-school Writers’ Rooms, college essay assistance, help for English Language Learners, and in-depth publishing projects.
Each of their free programs seeks to empower students to express their ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in their individual voices.
Email: info@826boston.org
Hands on Hartford
Hands On Hartford is a social service nonprofit organization that serves Hartford’s most economically challenged residents in the areas of food, housing, and health. They are also an affiliate of the Points of Light Global Network, which includes volunteer-mobilizing organizations located in nearly 40 countries around the world.
Email: info@handsonhartford.org
The Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Eastern CT
The Sexual Assault Crisis Center is a private, non-profit agency offering free and confidential, comprehensive services to victims of sexual assault and abuse. SACCEC is a member of the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence, the statewide coalition of sexual assault crisis agencies.
Email: contact@saccec.org
Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center
The Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center’s (PRLACC) mission is to improve the status of Latinx students and to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the richness and diversity of Latinx individuals and Latin American cultures. PRLACC works independently and collaboratively with other University departments and community organizations to sponsor educational and cultural programs, provide services and leadership opportunities, foster connections, and educate the greater University community about Latinx issues. Their services and programs seek to enhance and support student, faculty, and staff recruitment and retention, as well as enrich the multicultural climate of the community.
Email: prlacc@uconn.edu