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YWCA New Britain details community health worker training and childcare incubator to expand local care and workforce pathways
Summary
Tracy Madden Hennessy, CEO of the YWCA New Britain, told the CT Paid Leave Authority podcast that the nonprofit runs a state-aligned community health worker training for high school students and a childcare business incubator where four women operate family childcare businesses to address an infant–toddler care shortage.
Tracy Madden Hennessy, chief executive officer of the YWCA New Britain, described the nonprofit’s education and workforce programs on the CT Paid Leave Authority podcast, highlighting a community health worker pathway for high school students and a childcare business incubator intended to expand infant–toddler care in the city.
Hennessy said the YWCA New Britain, established in 1910, “serves women and girls in the greater New Britain area,” and that the organization’s mission is the empowerment of women and the elimination of racism, which it embeds in program design. She described services that include preschool through high-school educational programs, after-school programming for middle and high school students, crisis-intervention services,…
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