Lunch Break With The Village is a monthly Facebook Live event series that features Village staff and community guests who provide expert tips and advice on navigating challenging life situations and other relevant topics.
Past Episodes
The Village’s New Urgent Crisis Center
September 21, 2023
This special episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on our new walk-in youth mental health Urgent Crisis Center (UCC) in Hartford. This episode covered how this game-changing new level of care helps deescalate children and teens’ mental health crises and connect them to ongoing support.
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Managing Back To School Chaos
August 17, 2023
This month’s episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on resources to help families navigate emotional and other challenges that can come with the start of a new school year.
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Achieving Self-Sufficiency & Financial Stability
July 27, 2023
This month’s episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on resources to empower families in building stability and self-sufficiency through new connections, goal-setting, education and training, job coaching and more.
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LGBTQIA2S+ Affirming Mental Health Care
June 15, 2023
This month’s episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on the importance of affirmative counseling and treatment for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and its impact in the community.
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Short-term Foster Care, Lifelong Impact
May 18, 2023
Did you know that the CT foster care system has changed? Learn about new short-term care and how it helps change lives by providing children and teens with a safe, nurturing home to find stability.
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Child Abuse Prevention
April 27, 2023
This episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on child abuse prevention and resources to help children heal and stay healthy and safe. We explored mental health challenges commonly faced by children who have experienced abuse or neglect, parenting education resources and Connecticut’s multidisciplinary approach to child abuse cases.
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Navigating & Overcoming Bullying
March 23, 2023
Join us on Thursday, March 23 at noon for an episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on bullying and resources to help in the healing process. This episode will cover ways to start conversations about bullying, insight to help young people navigate bullying situations and tips to help them become advocates for themselves and others.
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Suicide Prevention
February 22, 2023
* Content warning: this episode of Lunch Break contains mentions of suicide that may be triggering to some viewers. * This episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on resources and strategies to aid in suicide prevention.
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Recovery Support & Overcoming Addiction
January 26, 2023
This episode of Lunch Break With The Village focused on aiding adults in accessing recovery support and tools to help overcome addiction.
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