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Gardening Guru’s at Sound
This garden is impressive! Our young adult residents and staff at our Sound Community Services Right of Passage Program (ROPP) are Gardening Guru’s when it comes to creating a beautiful garden. Yesterday they enjoyed some of the veggies that came from their garden and one of our staff members stated, “Best salad ever!” That salad…
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Did You Know? Outpatient Clinic
Did you know? Sound Community Services has two Outpatient Clinics, one in New London and one in Norwich. The New London clinic is located at 21 Montauk Avenue and the Norwich clinic is located at 113 Salem Turnpike. Our Outpatient Program provides comprehensive care for persons served via group (they’re on hold for now due…
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Staying Emotionally Sound With A Donation
One of our clients in our Community Support Program (CSP) donated about sixty plus latchet hook rugs that they handmade over time to Sound Community Services. Creating these beautiful pieces since they were 10 years old into their adulthood has helped the well being of their mental health and has helped keep them emotionally sound!…
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Empower Your Team To Become a Powerful Leader
Whether as a parent, manager, employee, or instructor, most of us are going to experience leadership at some point in our lives. However, leadership doesn’t come naturally to many of us. We don’t know how to get people to “do as they’re told,” we don’t feel worthy of being put in charge, and we’re not…
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Core Values Worth Fighting For
The agency’s strategic plan has prioritized a revision of the agency’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values in an effort to communicate clarity of expectations and to convey where the agency is headed. The Strategic Planning Committee met over several months to create the new agency Core Values which embody statements that we want to live…
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Our Commitment to Justice and Equity
In this time of major social upheaval, we at SCSI stand in solidarity and support for equity, racial justice and social transformation. The protests in the U.S. following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the enormous multitude of Black lives lost as a result of systemic, institutionalized racism; the mass…
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Facilities and AXS Collaboration
Shoutout to Warren and Nathan who volunteered their time to teach our young adults the importance of using household tools and how to identify and use proper cleaning products. This group is geared towards educating our young adults at AXS on the importance of ADL skills, allowing them to build confidence while working towards independence.…
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SMART Recovery
Over the past 4 months SCSI and NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness) have developed a partnership around SMART Recovery for young adults. NAMI set a target goal to begin offering additional services to New London County stemming from reports around adolescent substance abuse and overdoses over the last few years. Months ago, NAMI began…
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Our Residential Programs are getting noticed on a national level!
It was recently reported by SteadyCare that our agency had a 98% compliance rate through the check in system, in which we are the #1 rated agency in the United States. SteadyCare is an organization that services a multitude of nonprofit agencies all over the country. It is a call service that we use here…
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Becoming a Resource for Learning & Independence
Nate and Warren from our Facilities Department wanted to find a way to bring their expertise to our clients and to build stronger relationships with our programs. This dynamic duo reached out to the AXS Team to see if they could create a program that would help young adults learn some of the important facilities/home management…
