Our Priority Areas

There are many different focus areas where we all can work toward health justice for all Connecticut’s residents. At the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health), we focus our funds and our energy on improving the health of residents who have been ignored or left behind.

• Children’s Mental Health

  Like physical health, good mental health is important at every stage of life. Identification of mental health issues in childhood is key to helping children grow into healthy, productive adults. CT Health is dedicated to funding and promoting early identification of mental health issues among at-risk children and supporting organizations that work to change policy and attitudes about children’s mental health care.

• Health Policy / Advocacy

  Our approach to all of our funding priority areas is about more than grant-making. CT Health attempts to address these issues by effecting sustained change in systems. System-wide change means change in policies, regulations, funding allocations, as well as the strengthening of advocacy organizations and civic engagement.

• Oral Health

  In low-income families, there can be cultural, financial and geographic barriers to maintaining good oral health. CT Health works to help break down those barriers by supporting the incorporation of oral health at every point where children and their families intersect with health care, human service and education systems.

• Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

  Health disparities (avoidable differences in health status) exist between communities of color in Connecticut and the majority population. CT Health invests in initiatives that work to close gaps in health outcomes and quality of care and ensure that Connecticut’s increasingly diverse communities have equal opportunity to attain good health.

Learn more about our Theory of Change.