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Hartford HHS details new community-education program, mobile testing; committee backs continued use of Lattice Kitchen for senior meals
Summary
HHS Director Ebony Jackson Shaheed told the Health & Human Services Committee on Dec. 2 that a "Community University" of free courses will launch in January, the department has completed hiring an epidemiologist, the HHS mobile van will be used for OD2A testing and flu clinics run weekdays; the committee also voted to forward a resolution to continue using Lattice Kitchen for North End Senior Center meals to City Council.
Ebony Jackson Shaheed, director of Hartford’s Department of Health and Human Services, updated the committee on Dec. 2 about new programs and operational changes while the committee also voted to forward a resolution to continue using Lattice Kitchen to prepare lunch meals for the North End Senior Center.
Jackson Shaheed said the department will roll out a "Community University" in January offering free, 90-minute courses in topics such as governance, healthy homes, health-care literacy, financial literacy, trauma response related to gun violence, homeownership and continuing education. "It is being…
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