One of the Intergenerational Blood Pressure Study’s community partners, West Haven Community House, recently hosted a Read Across America Day Celebration complete with appearances from Cat in the Hat, Thing 1, and Thing 2 and beautiful handmade decorations depicting some popular Dr. Seuss books.
Valen Grandelski, project manager, and Comfort Agaba, research assistant, attended this event to support West Haven’s efforts to promote literacy and a love of reading. The Yale research team and West Haven Head Start (part of West Haven Community House) will be working together to recruit Black/African American mothers and their children for the Intergenerational Blood Pressure Study.
For almost 75 years, the West Haven Community House has provided significant leadership in the education of our youth and is grounded in the principal that an investment in education is key to the community’s well-being and long-term quality of life. West Haven Community House provides a comprehensive pre-school program to 163 children from low-income families as well as assists more than 300 working families by providing them before and after school programs for elementary school-aged children in six schools in West Haven.
Thank you to everyone at the West Haven Community House who made this event possible and for welcoming us with open arms. We look forward to working with West Haven Head Start in the coming years.