How Has Ascend Helped?

Supporting Students and Education

  • Hartford Promise supported high school students in finding internships and college financial aid.

Supporting Children and Parents

  • Hartford Talks and the Maternal Infant Outreach Program helped families with early learning and essential needs like car seats.
  • Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gave out free books to help families build home libraries.
  • 211 Child Development Infoline guided parents to autism services they didn’t know were available.

Learning and Growing Together

  • Bringing STEAM to Hartford Neighborhoods connected families to science and art programs.
  • Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library helped build home libraries for young readers.

Jobs and Housing

  • San Juan Workforce Development helped a mother experiencing homelessness find housing and a job.

Wellness and Health

  • The Hartford Health Initiative hosted events and connected people to care and wellness tools.
  • Easy Breathing continued to improve asthma care in schools.