Media Roundup
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Select media coverage on news and issues affecting individuals with I/DD in Connecticut and around the nation…
June 2020 At Southbury Training School, the hard work goes on www.hartfordcourant.com | June 17, 2020 A great op-ed in the Hartford Courant by an STS staff member about STS during COVID. read full story Connecticut Hospitals Ordered to Allow Visitors for Patients With Disabilities www.nytimes.com | June 9, 2020 read full story A letter to the editor of the Waterbury Republican-American: Let us not forget to honor those who protect us www.rep-american.com | June 9, 2020 Let us not forget the first responders, nurses, doctors, EMTs and police officers who put their lives on the line daily, and now have to put up with another threat: COVID-19. Let us also not forget the people working behind the scenes in institutions, like Southbury Training School, caring for the mentally and physically handicapped. These caregivers work double and triple shifts making sure the residents’ needs are tended to. Among other things, these residents have needs related to eating, bathing, recreation and medical care. The caregivers sometimes have to put up with physical abuse, among other things. They are the unsung heroes, and they put their lives on the line every day! Three staff members who were unsung heroes recently died from COVID-19 complications. Let’s not forget the special care workers! They also come home after working 16-hour shifts just to sleep, and then do it all over again. Douglas LeBel Wolcott Meg Capen’s music therapy brings joy, comfort to elderly and disabled www.registercitizen.com | June 8, 2020 read full story April 2020 Southbury Training School has 19 positive cases of COVID-19; state officials take measures to limit spread www.rep-am.com | April 18, 2020 read full story March 2020 Life inside group home slated for closure www.ctpost.com | March 14, 2020 read full story February 2015 The Modern Asylum www.nytimes.com | February 18, 2015 read full story |
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