Connecticut Appleseed

We are committed to improving social justice by helping Connecticut's most disadvantaged and disenfranchised citizens. We are currently working on a program called CLICC to improve the literacy and family relationships for at-risk children with a parent in prison. The project applies ground-breaking email technology to allow joint reading and discussions from remote locations, healing broken relationships in the process of improving literacy and employment-related computer skills for the children of inmates and their parents and caretakers.

Description:
Connecticut Appleseed is part of a national Appleseed network that both fosters multi-state collaborative projects and helps us to rapidly share successful ideas and best practices. Innovative programs that originate in any of the 16 Appleseed states are replicated and exported to sister "Centers," while Connecticut also applies programs here from throughout the network, without having to reinvent the wheel.
Among our current programs are legislative efforts to break the Schools to Prison pipeline, provide dental care for disadvantaged children, remove structural barriers to parental involvement in education, developing a handbook for attorneys representing the mentally ill in criminal cases and elder law education.

Contact people:

Sandra Sirota, Program Coordinator, (203) 351-0631, (email) Joy Haenlein, Communications Director, (203) 918-0375, (email)

Office fax number: (203) 388-0142

Address:

141 Franklin St. Stamford , CT 06901 (See a map)

Web Site: http://ctappleseed.org

Directions:

Off of exit 7 (northbound) of I-95. Continue straight to deadend at Stamford Train Station, turn left onto Washington Blvd. Take Washington north to North Street. Turn right. The first left is Franklin (a one-way street). Take that left turn.. . . (more)

Last updated on June 17, 2009