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Your time and involvement with HCC is the most valuable to us, but if you have a little extra to share this holiday season, even a $5 or $10 donation goes a long way.
We appreciate any donation you are able to contribute!
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Signatures Needed for Town Appropriation Funds
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HCC needs signatures from 500 registered voters in Hartford to secure ongoing $25,000 in town appropriation funds. We have received this money in the past, it is currently set aside for us (no increase in your taxes due to us). However we missed the deadline to reapply and need your signatures to support us staying on the ballot for voting in March. HCC will be collecting signatures at the WRJ Coop, High School Basketball and Ice Hockey Games, Quechee Post Office. Please stop by and see us! If you have a population of REGISTERED HARTFORD VOTERS that you hang with - please let us know, we'll come to you for just a few minutes! Get in touch with Em: [email protected] |
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| Community Conversations: Save the Date! |
We greatly appreciated your participation in the Community Conversations we held in the spring. We learned a lot and have pulled some important data out of it. The findings can be accessed below. We presented and reviewed that data recently and have scheduled another conversation for this winter. Save the date for January 16 6-7:30pm to keep this work moving forward! |
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Free Virtual Parent Education Programs
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| "Awkward Conversations" Podcast Series |
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It's never to early to start talking about risky behavior.
Check out this start-studded series of short videos to help you navigate bringing up your child in today's world.
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The Stigma and Shame of Loneliness
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If you’re lonely and feel uncomfortable sharing this information, you are in good company. Here’s why.
In 2018, BBC Radio 4’s program “All in the Mind” conducted The Loneliness Experiment in collaboration with researchers from The University of Manchester, Brunel University London and Exeter University. More than 55,000 people worldwide responded to the survey making The Loneliness Experiment the largest-ever study of loneliness (Manchester Institute of Education, 2018).
The psychologists devising the questionnaire did something particularly interesting. They avoided using the words lonely or loneliness in some of the questions, and something curious happened. 30% of respondents who said they were ‘never lonely’ changed their answer when the question was asked a different way, such as whether they would like some company. These results demonstrate that many of us do not want to admit feeling lonely (Manchester Institute of Education, 2018). But why exactly?
The survey revealed higher levels of shame among people who acknowledged their loneliness. This tells us something that we probably already know intuitively; there is a stigma surrounding the experience of loneliness (Lau & Gruen, 1992). The US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, puts it this way:
“People who feel lonely often are ashamed to admit it. They think it’s equivalent to admitting that they are not likable or that they’re socially insufficient in some way” (Suttie, 2020)
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