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Health Care Heroes — December 11, 2017

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www.HartfordBusiness.com • December 11, 2017 • Hartford Business Journal 35 PRIMARY & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EDUCATION EARLY CHILDHOOD WELLNESS & RECOVERY Congratulations, MOTT! You are always our heroes. Wheeler and the Mott Corporation are engaged in a unique partnership to engage individuals and families in accessing health care services and information. In 2016, Mott supported a pilot community health worker program that allowed Wheeler to add a full-time community health worker dedicated to engaging Central Connecticut families in culturally and linguistically responsive health care services. Mott employees also volunteer as Health Ambassadors for Wheeler at community-based health outreach activities, including recovery walks, neighborhood health and wellness fairs and events, and community conversations about addiction, mental health and recovery. They are true partners. THANK YOU! Learn more at: wheelerclinic.org/give MEET LISBETH BARRETO, OUR MOTT HEALTH OUTREACH WORKER Lisbeth uses a peer-based education model to engage families in health care services, including those provided at Wheeler's Health & Wellness Centers in New Britain and Bristol. The community health worker model builds on the belief that community members are experts in their own lives and in their own communities, and harnesses local expertise, relationships and trust to improve engagement in primary and preventative care, chronic disease management, and patient education and advocacy.

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