Serves as a community for local families seeking holistic care, support, and opportunities (mind, body, and spirit). Aims to serve urban families in the Greater Hartford region including caregivers, children and adolescents, seniors and grandparents, persons with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on persons of color and communities with limited to no access to wellness services. Center will serve as a community resource, provide holistic wellness services, and direct health services/care coordination. All programming will be guided by three underlying principles:. Health Equity: Every person can attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined.. Community Participation: Through a Community Advisory Committee (CAC) and a community organizing effort services will be community driven and evaluated for continuous quality.. Trauma-Informed Approach: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) approach encompasses six key principles, including safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment voice and choice, and cultural, historical and gender.Services provided at the Center will be a unique collaboration between the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Together, these sectors work together to provide comprehensive, community driven services needed for to improve the community's overall wellbeing.Health equity focus and through trauma-informed care, center plans to address eight principal areas of health with local partners: physical, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, social, emotional, financial, and environmental.Assistance includes:Healthcare Screening with Hartford Healthcare provides medical screening (e.g., blood pressure, blood sugar); vaccinations; immunizations; basic testing (e.g., COVID19, A1C, Cholesterol); addresses urgent needs such as a common cold, earaches, minor burns, and minor lacerations; and provides referral and follow-up care.Oral Health Screening: Oral health screening services are offered by the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. Under the supervision of attending faculty members, dental student volunteers are available to complete oral health assessments, which consist of reviewing a patient's medical history, delivering oral hygiene instruction, and conducting an oral screening. Based upon these preliminary findings, referrals for follow-up care are made as deemed necessary.Individual Nutritional Counseling: Charter Oak Health Center educates individuals and families about nutrition to make ensure that they are properly managing their health. They offer individual and family dietary counseling, a weight management series, and nutrition classes.Cooking Demonstrations and Nutrition Education: The Hispanic Health Council and Charter Oak Health Center provide on-site cooking demonstrations as a great way to show off easy and delicious recipes featuring healthy and culturally appropriate foods. In addition, nutritional education learning experiences are designed and provided to facilitate the voluntary adoption of eating and other nutrition-related behaviors conducive to health and well-being.Health Education (e.g., Diabetes Management, Asthma Management): Provides a series of classes designed to help people acquire functional health knowledge, and strengthens attitudes, beliefs, and practice skills needed to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors throughout their lives.Physical Fitness (e.g., Martial Arts, Yoga): Local fitness experts conduct exercise classes such as yoga and martial arts. They are designed to teach people what is required to maintain their physical fitness and how to properly conduct the preferred training program.Occupational Training: Goodwin University provides a manufacturing training center. The center provides students with various opportunities including learning introduct