Publications
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Partners in Caring
Read on to learn more about the many programs and services the hospital provides and about our generous friends and donors who help make it happen.
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Community Health Needs Assessment
This publication features an in-depth look at the current state of our community, including the impact that poverty, education, parental engagement, and the early detection of developmental concerns can have on a child’s overall development.
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YOU ARE INVITED TO RACE AND RAISE FUNDS
Team members who raise and/or donate more than $75 will receive a comfy and chic Connecticut Children’s fabric face mask. The last day to fundraise is October 8, 2020.
*All in-person participants must register online – no walk-up registration*
Extra Life is a year-round fundraising initiative that culminates in a 24-hour gaming challenge, where participants can play from the comfort of their own homes while supporting their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Last year, Extra Life raised more than $72,000 for Connecticut Children’s.
When it comes to playing games for charity, Albert Dzurka of Fairfield is a pro. An Information Technology professional on Wall Street, Dzurka, 43, is also a broadcaster, podcaster and gaming enthusiast who heads the Extra Life Team known as “The Player’s Club.” Members of his team raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, of which Connecticut Children’s is his hospital of choice.
It was 2014, and Russell Elfont was in eighth grade at the Wooster School in Danbury when he first heard about the Extra Life program, in which participants play games of all kinds to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals—in Russell’s case, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
“This must be the easiest fundraising plan in the world; you don’t even have to get up off the couch if you don’t want to,” says Tracy Degrazia. She’s talking about the Extra Life program, in which gamers — people who play video games, board games, phone games, card games and other forms of competitive play — use their passion to raise money for children’s hospitals.