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Healthcare Workers March on DMHAS Headquarters, Escalate Demands to Staff Open Positions, Expand Lifesaving Services

July 20, 2022

As state-run mental health and addictions facilities are operating below 50% capacity, state healthcare workers and members of District 1199 New England held a rally on Tuesday at the DMHAS headquarters to call attention to the urgent need for increased staffing and expanded services. Mental health workers who provide lifesaving care to Connecticut residents in

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Healthcare Providers to March on DMHAS Headquarters, Escalate Demands to Staff Open Positions, Expand Lifesaving Services

July 19, 2022

Members of District 1199 New England who are state healthcare workers employed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) held a rally on Tuesday, July 19th at the DMHAS office in downtown Hartford, calling on DMHAS to expand access to vital services Connecticut residents rely on, fill hundreds of vacant positions, and

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Public Healthcare Workers Raise Urgent Demand for Gov. Lamont to Fill 1,000 Vacancies by August 1, Cite Record-High April Retirement Numbers, Dangerous Shortage of Lifesaving Care

April 28, 2022

Public healthcare workers with 1199NE SEIU held a press conference Wednesday raising the urgent need to fill vacancies in state agencies, pointing to newly-released April numbers showing a record 1,137 state workers notified the state they will retire. As Connecticut facilities are already understaffed and demand for care skyrockets, state workers are calling on Governor

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April 1, 2022

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CT in Crisis: Mental Health Symposium to Examine Growing Crisis Among Children & Adults – 2022

January 11, 2022

On Tuesday, Jan. 11, at 10:00 a.m., legislators and mental health experts held a symposium to highlight the growing and unprecedented mental health and addiction crisis in Connecticut and offered a bold, unified vision for policymakers to enact in order to help children and adults during the upcoming legislative session. Speaker of the House Matt

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Workers Denounce DMHAS’ Shut Down of Young Adult Services Residence in Hartford

October 26, 2021

Mental health workers expressed serious concerns Tuesday for Governor NedLamont’s intent to close a 10-bed residence providing transitional living services in Hartford foryoung adults who are 18 to 25 years old. According to a letter from Governor Lamont’s administration, the Young Adult ServicesProgram at 556 Blue Hills Avenue (the Hilltop Residential Program) will be shut

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Statement of SEBAC Leadership on Vaccine Mandate for Workers in State Hospitals and Long-term Care Facilities

September 23, 2021

Healthcare, custodial and maintenance staff represented by unions in the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) are extremely concerned that the precarious staffing shortages that existed long before COVID-19 could be dangerously exacerbated by even a fractional reduction of this workforce if the COVID-19 vaccination requirement deadline set by Governor Ned Lamont’s Executive Order 13G

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Long-Term Care Workers Join SEBAC Press Conference for Fair Contracts with the State

July 13, 2021

Connecticut’s independent home care workers will join SEBAC state workers in demand of a fair contract that lifts long-term care workers out of poverty. SEIU District 1199’s union contract with the State of Connecticut covers some 10,000 independent home care personal care attendants serving 6,000 people across the state. Today is the Service Employees International Union Day of

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State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

May 24, 2021

Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will rally alongside service recipients and community allies Monday to demand that the state fills nearly 1,500 healthcare vacancies in critical areas of our public safety net. Development and mental health services from the Department of

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State Healthcare Workers Block Traffic in Middletown to Demand End to Staffing Crisis

May 6, 2021

Frontline doctors, nurses, mental health workers, social workers and other healthcare workers from Connecticut Valley Hospital, Whiting Forensic Hospital and Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center North and South will block traffic to demand that Governor Ned Lamont immediately fill 345 vacancies. Staffing shortages at these facilities of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

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Healthcare Workers March on DMHAS Headquarters, Escalate Demands to Staff Open Positions, Expand Lifesaving Services

Healthcare Providers to March on DMHAS Headquarters, Escalate Demands to Staff Open Positions, Expand Lifesaving Services

Public Healthcare Workers Raise Urgent Demand for Gov. Lamont to Fill 1,000 Vacancies by August 1, Cite Record-High April Retirement Numbers, Dangerous Shortage of Lifesaving Care

2022 State Ratification Vote Totals

CT in Crisis: Mental Health Symposium to Examine Growing Crisis Among Children & Adults – 2022

Workers Denounce DMHAS’ Shut Down of Young Adult Services Residence in Hartford

Statement of SEBAC Leadership on Vaccine Mandate for Workers in State Hospitals and Long-term Care Facilities

Long-Term Care Workers Join SEBAC Press Conference for Fair Contracts with the State

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

State Healthcare Workers Block Traffic in Middletown to Demand End to Staffing Crisis

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