THE PROBLEM:

Rents have increased 33% on average since 2020, outpacing wage growth by a wide margin.

Connecticut is short more than 85,000 affordable housing units for low-income families.

Families are often forced to choose between rent
and groceries.

Children make up 25–30% of people experiencing homelessness in Connecticut.

New Reach helps families across Connecticut overcome homelessness, housing instability, and food insecurity through prevention, crisis services, and long-term housing solutions.

For more than 30 years, we’ve provided shelter, support, and pathways to stability with compassion and proven impact.

Learn What We Do…

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Support New Reach’s Mission

Our Comprehensive Response to Homelessness and Hunger

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Prevention

Successfully keeping families
in their homes.

  • Through partnerships, landlord mediation, legal services, employment and education referrals, and government program linkages, we offer the resources families need to stay housed.

  • New Reach helps families seeking shelter find immediate alternatives.

1793 Clients Served Last Year

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Crisis Services

Providing shelter and critical support to help individuals and families regain stability.

  • New Reach operates two clean, safe, and supportive shelters in the City of New Haven. These shelters have the capacity to serve 18 individual women and 23 women with children every day as they work toward reestablishing permanent housing and long-term independence. 

  • FISH volunteers deliver nutritious groceries each month to homebound residents across Greater New Haven who are unable to access food pantries or stores due to age, illness, or disability.

1019 Clients Served Last Year

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Housing

Offering safe, stable, affordable housing with the support needed to build brighter futures.

  • Long-term services and financial assistance support for families, individuals and youth living with disabilities including mental health diagnoses and chronic health conditions to support long term housing stability.​

  • Short-term rental assistance coupled with supportive services to quickly reestablish permanent housing and regain lasting independence.

741 Clients Served Last Year

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By the Numbers

3724

Clients served last year

159

Shelter clients moved into housing

16847

Bags of groceries delivered through FISH

96%

Families prevented
from eviction

Upcoming Events

Events
Gift-A-Family
Nov 30
Gift-A-Family

Each year, generous donors like you help ensure that families experiencing housing insecurity have meaningful gifts to open during the holidays.  

  • Sign up for families to sponsor

  • Build a team

  • View your family wish lists through email!

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