Root Center donated $8k and partnered with St. Vincent de Paul Middletown to help fight hunger
July 14, 2020
Hunger hits our community at its core. It impacts everything, undermining feelings of safety and security and creating strain in families and communities. The Root Center for Advanced Recovery recognizes the critical role that food security plays in our patient’s everyday lives, and for this reason, we have partnered with the St. Vincent de Paul Middletown
food pantry
/soup kitchen and donated $8,000 to help address hunger in the Middletown area.
Our St Vincent De Paul Middletown check presentation ceremony on 7/14/2020 was a huge success!!! 
Our donation will cover food costs for one month and help to meet the increasing need caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our donation will cover food costs for one month and help to meet the increasing need caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Amazing things happen when nonprofits support nonprofits 
!
! Photo featuring: Steven Zuckerman, President and CEO, Root Center for Advanced Recovery; MaryEllen Shuckerow, Executive Director, St. Vincent de Paul; Bruce Simons, Board President, Root Center for Advanced Recovery
Recent Posts
Welcome 2026! Root Center has had a lot unfold since our last newsletter. Most recently, staff came together for our annual holiday party, a tradition we look forward to as an opportunity to come together and celebrate the hard work we've put forth over the past year. We also donated our oldest clinic to the city of Hartford, hosted a Community Forum, were featured on NBC CT, celebrated one year of being open in New Haven County, and much more! Keep reading for more details and exciting updates!
It is time for our first Community Forum of 2026. On January 13th at 6 p.m, we will be hosting a panel of experts at 335 Broad Street in Manchester to discuss the impacts of social media on mental health. "Scrolled Out: Social Media and the State of Our Minds" is sure to spark insightful conversations about our digital age. If you missed the event, not to worry, you can watch and listen to the full discussion here . Panelists include: John Murphy: UConn Digital Media & Design Professor and Digital Health Advocate Paul Weigle, Associate Medical Director for Natchaug Hospital, a Hartford HealthCare Behavioral Health Network partner, at UConn Medical School Keith McGilvery, Good News Guy and Journalist Micheal Shelby, LPC, Founder and Director of Technology Addiction Center, LLC, and Plan Be Counseling, LLC Aly Fox, Root Center Clinic Supervisor State Representative Gary Turco
