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The mission of the Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully, Inc. (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) is to promote healthy lifestyle change for the clinically diagnosed and at-risk children of obesity. Our vision is to move disadvantaged children and families from the margins to the center of the healthy eating and living movement by promoting food as fun and as medicine. We provide nutrition education, cooking classes, summer camps and health workshops. Formed in year 2002, we serve Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia and are committed to improving the lives children everywhere via our free virtual programming. As a result, we have reached more than 120,000 children and adults to date.

Imagine supports children and families coping with loss and fosters resiliency and emotional well-being for all those who grieve. We do this by providing education and free year-round peer grief support for children age 3-18 and young adults 18-30 who are coping with loss due to the death of a parent or sibling or who have a family member living with a life-altering physical illness. Concurrent support groups are available for parents and guardians in both programs. In the area of education and outreach, we provide on-site bereavement and crisis support and educational workshops and presentations for businesses, corporations, schools, and community agencies.

Hope Alliance assists family and sexual violence survivors by providing services, safety, and developing partnerships that lead to hope, healing, and prevention. Our services include a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, and primary prevention services.

To Positively Impact the Quality of Life of Those We Serve by Providing Professional, Caring, Cost-Effective Behaviorial Healthcare Services.

Founded in 1986, Fernside offers support and advocacy to grieving families who have experienced a death. Fernside offers peer support for grieving families-children, teens and adults and works to increase community awareness of grief issues through community outreach.

Our mission is to help those in crisis, especially suicidal crisis, find hope for the future.

Our mission is to provide mental health services to the community regardless of ability to pay.

Empowering individuals and families living with chronic pain to create happier, healthier lives through support, education, and outreach.

Stomping Ground educates, entertains, and empowers the community - connecting people through comedy. And we won't stop till everybody's laughing.

We are Connecticut's First Family Justice Center offering streamlined and free confidential crisis services to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence and child abuse in one safe location. As an FJC we work closely with police, prosecutors, civil/legal service providers and and community-based advocates to provide a coordinated, collaborative response that saves lives and empowers victims to become self-sufficient survivors. In addition we provide community-based education and training to create the social change that is critical to break the cycle of violence. We help men, women and children and their family members--of any age, race, religion and gender, impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault and child abuse in the communities of Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford and Trumbull.