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Working for the Health and Well-being of Connecticut Women
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n executive committee has been formed to change the structure of the CWHC. This streamlined model will opportunities for networking and diversifying membership. The Executive Committee meets 2 - 4 times a year and consists of seven members. The general membership will meeting once a year.
Women are the backbone of Connecticut's healthcare economy serving the state as providers, paid and unpaid caregivers, and as consumers. We hope that you will join our efforts to promote women’s health in Connecticut.
2009 Membership
Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc.
African American Affairs Commission
American Heart Association
Coalition for Choice
Connecticut Association for Human Services
Connecticut Commission on Aging
Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition
Connecticut Association for Nonprofits
Connecticut Breast Cancer Coalition Foundation
Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Connecticut Community Care, Inc.
Connecticut Primary Care Association
Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc.
Connecticut Voices for Children
Connecticut Women’s Consortium
Connecticut Women’s Problem Gambling Project
Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective
Health Care for All Coalition
Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission
Legal Assistance Resource Center of CT
MATCH Coalition, Inc.
NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut
National Council of Jewish Women
National Alliance on Mental Illness, CT (NAMI-CT)
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, CT Chapter
Old Lyme Social Services
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Inc.
The Paul and Lisa Program
RSVP of Southwestern CT
University of Connecticut Health Center, Celebrate
Health Programs
Witness Project of Connecticut, Inc.
Women and Family Life Center of Guilford
YWCA Northeast Regional Council
Gayle Kataja and Lisa Sementilli serve as co-chairs. The Executive Committee Members are:
Susan Addiss, MPH
Cinda Cash, Connecticut Women’s Consortium, Inc.
Monette Goodrich, Connecticut Health Foundation
Teresa Younger, PCSW
Jill Zorn, Universal Health Care Foundation
The Committee members listed represent a knowledge and/or expertise in the following areas: health care financing; preventive health care; reproductive health and rights; racial and ethnic disparities; maternity and child health; aging; long-term care; women’s behavioral health; universal health care; chronic illness; sexual violence; privacy and confidentiality; oral health care; and access to prescriptions.
Download a list of the Executive Committee members.
Co-Chair
Gayle Kataja,
RNC, MS, CMC
Connecticut Community Care Inc.
Gayle Kataja is the Regional Director of the North Central Region of Connecticut Community Care, Inc. (CCCI). CCCI is a private non-profit, statewide agency providing care management to older adults.
Ms. Kataja lectures extensively on care giving issues, long term care, legal and ethical issues, managed care, deinstitutionalization of frail older and disabled adults and Alzheimer’s Disease. She has published articles on respite care, ethics and case management in long-term care. She has provided consultation to numerous managed care entities defining the role of care management with emphasis on the frail elderly.
Co-Chair Lisa P. Sementilli, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Ms. Sementilli has nearly twenty years of experience in health and human services. Highlights of her work include serving as health and social service consultant to health providers, managed care organizations, foundations and advocates; coordinating a statewide outreach and public education initiative funded through The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Covering Connecticut’s Kids and Families”; directing family health policy and advocacy at the Connecticut Association for Human Services; and working to expand progressive state laws on family and medical leave and reproductive health at the Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, DC.
Ms. Sementilli is a founding member of the Connecticut Medicaid Managed Care Council. She holds a Master's degree in Legislative Affairs from the George Washington University. Her background and interests also include immigration and refugee policy and services for people with limited English skills.
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