Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut

Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut We envision a world where justice prevails, health is respected as a human right, and equity is realized.

Universal centers community and works in solidarity with those most directly impacted by systemic injustice to achieve equitable and just healthy outcomes for all. We leverage our influence and resources, advocate with partners on their priorities, and work to increase investment in grassroots organizing.

Mental health is health. Seeking help is not a weakness. It is survival.We want to say plainly: what you are feeling is ...
05/27/2026

Mental health is health. Seeking help is not a weakness. It is survival.

We want to say plainly: what you are feeling is real. The anxiety, the exhaustion, the weight of navigating a world that feels increasingly unstable. It is real, and you deserve care.

But wanting help and being able to access it are two very different things.
In Connecticut, too many people face impossible barriers: no insurance, no provider that accepts their plan, no therapist who speaks their language, no appointment available for months.

While mental health care access in our state is ranked high across the country, access is still under-resourced, unevenly distributed, and increasingly under threat. Proposed federal Medicaid cuts would gut the very programs that make mental health care accessible for low-income families, children, and communities of color.

When individuals can donate freely to a nonprofit, donor-advised funds should be able to do the same. But that's not wha...
05/22/2026

When individuals can donate freely to a nonprofit, donor-advised funds should be able to do the same. But that's not what's happening.

Fidelity and Vanguard recently blocked donor-advised funds from reaching the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that still holds full nonprofit status. When asked whether other nonprofits have faced similar restrictions, both institutions declined to comment.

The Southern Poverty Law Center may be one of many. Meanwhile, financial institutions continue to fund organizations with right-wing, white nationalist, and anti-LGBTQIA+ agendas.

This is what the erosion of civil society looks like, and it demands our attention.
Read the full story: https://heyor.ca/0VGgxf

Mass detention is being sold as a public safety measure. But a new investigation reveals who is actually profiting, and ...
05/20/2026

Mass detention is being sold as a public safety measure. But a new investigation reveals who is actually profiting, and it is not the public.

The Department of Homeland Security has spent over $1 billion this year acquiring warehouses to expand ICE detention. But records show the government is massively overpaying. A property worth $11 million sold for $123 million. Another worth $29 million sold for $129 million. With markups of up to 1,000%, these acquisitions are paid for by taxpayers while being pocketed by some of the world's largest financial institutions.

Private equity firms with deep ties to the current administration are offloading distressed assets at inflated prices while families are separated and communities are torn apart. This is not public safety. This is profit.

Health justice means asking who benefits from the systems that control our lives. The answer here is clear, and it is not the people being detained.

Read the report here: https://heyor.ca/uXIQAB

Health care is not a privilege that ends at detention.Since October 2025, ICE has stopped paying outside medical provide...
05/18/2026

Health care is not a privilege that ends at detention.

Since October 2025, ICE has stopped paying outside medical providers for detainee care, including dialysis, prenatal care, chemotherapy, and basic medications. Payments were promised to resume in April. They didn't.

As a result of this, providers are refusing to treat detainees because the government owes them money. People are being denied cancer screenings, insulin, and prenatal care. And people are dying. The average annual death rate in ICE custody from 2018 to 2024 was 8.9 people. So far in 2026, 18 people have died in the first four months alone.

This is a health care crisis. The people suffering it are in U.S. government custody, which means this is happening in our name.

Read the full story: https://heyor.ca/JeQP7h

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05/16/2026

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Happening in 10 days! Join the Walk for Autism and Resource Fair, in collaboration with Clifford Beers, on Sunday, May 1...
05/08/2026

Happening in 10 days! Join the Walk for Autism and Resource Fair, in collaboration with Clifford Beers, on Sunday, May 17, 2026.

Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Quinnipiac University, North Haven Campus

For more information and to register, go to: https://p2p.onecause.com/walk2026

Exciting news! Governor Lamont signed SB 397 into law, and for many Connecticut families, that means something real.No o...
05/08/2026

Exciting news! Governor Lamont signed SB 397 into law, and for many Connecticut families, that means something real.

No one should have to choose between getting the care they need and the fear of what might happen when they walk through the door. SB 397 means that schools, hospitals, and places of worship are now protected spaces. It means residents can seek help without that fear following them inside.

This is what looks like in practice.

We're proud to support the organizations that helped bring this across the finish line, including our power partners HUSKY 4 IMMIGRANTS and Colectivo de Defensa de Hartford / Hartford Deportation Defense, whose tireless advocacy was central to making this happen.

Photos by CT Students for a Dream

Last April, we said it clearly: your ZIP code should not define your health outcomes. We meant it then. We mean it now, ...
04/28/2026

Last April, we said it clearly: your ZIP code should not define your health outcomes. We meant it then. We mean it now, even more.

Fair Housing Month is a reminder that the fight for safe, stable, affordable housing is inseparable from the fight for health equity. Redlining didn't just shape neighborhoods. It shaped life expectancy, asthma rates, access to care, and generational wealth. Those effects don't disappear on their own.

That's why we keep showing up for policies that protect people and dismantle the systems that made ZIP codes matter this much in the first place.

Privacy is a health issue.Automated license plate readers create a searchable database of where you drive. Without clear...
04/24/2026

Privacy is a health issue.

Automated license plate readers create a searchable database of where you drive. Without clear limits, that data can be retained, shared, and used in ways that threaten everyone's privacy. SB 397 would set the first real limits in CT.

🔗 Learn more and take action with ACLU-CT's toolkit: https://heyor.ca/LQYFNA

The air we breathe, the water we drink, the green space we have access to aren't equally distributed. In Connecticut and...
04/22/2026

The air we breathe, the water we drink, the green space we have access to aren't equally distributed. In Connecticut and across the country, low-income communities and communities of color are more likely to live near pollutants, less likely to have access to parks and clean air, and more likely to experience the health consequences of that inequity.

Environmental justice is health justice. Climate change isn't a future problem. It's showing up right now in rising asthma rates, heat-related illness, and worsening chronic conditions for the people who are already carrying the heaviest health burdens.

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