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Office Closed for Thanksgiving:

November 23, 2020

The HAVEN office will be closed Thursday, November 23rd and Friday, November 24th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will be back in the office on Monday, November 30th. As a reminder, testing sites will remain open on Friday but may have limited hours. Please check into the Recovery Trek system, and confirm your testing site's availability prior to testing. All documents can be sent to reports@haven-ct.org. If you are having an issue with RecoveryTrek, please call the daily check-in line at 757-414-6039, or 757-943-9800 for Customer Support. Any SoberLink questions can be directed to: 714-975-7200. If you have any other questions please call the HAVEN office at 860-828-3175 and leave a voicemail. Happy a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

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High Watch Verifications:

November 19, 2020

Jenn Worthington will be temporarily unavailable to send participants meeting verifications. Until further notice, in order to obtain High Watch meeting verifications, please do the following:

- Reach out to the chair person of the meeting you are attending and ask the chair person to contact Brendan Miller at High Watch.

- The chair person will verify your attendance and ask Brendan to send you a meeting verification.

- Brendan will send you the verification directly.

Click here for further information on meeting attendance.

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Meeting Attendance:

June 1, 2020

HAVEN professionals who are required to attend anonymous support group meetings may attend online meetings in lieu of in-person meetings. This has been extended indefinitely. Please see below for more information about online meeting attendance, or click here.

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Finding Inner Peace Amidst COVID: Take 5:

May 7, 2020

HAVEN is dedicated to the health and wellness of all healthcare professionals. Our mission and vision is to promote and support the health and wellbeing of our Connecticut health professionals. Never in our lifetimes has the wellness of our community been under such siege. We see stress and uncertainty in every area. Never have we felt so helpless.

Guided Imagery and Meditation audios are ways to reduce anxiety, promote better sleep, and alleviate stress.

We all need to take some quiet time for ourselves. These meditations and affirmations were selected with healthcare professionals in mind. They are all under five minutes. They can be listened to with complete anonymity and to whatever extent works for you. Using these research-based skills has shown to lower stress, promote better sleep, and enable positive energy and calm which are desperately needed during these turbulent times.

These are a gift from HAVEN to you, our healthcare community. They will be available for unlimited use for one year from May 11, 2020.

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Nurses Week 2020

May 6, 2020

Happy Nurses Week to all of the great nurses we have had the pleasure of working with. Thank you for all you do, especially during this time of crisis. Stay safe and know that HAVEN is here for you.

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Online Meeting Attendance (cont.):

May 1, 2020

HAVEN professionals who are required to attend anonymous support group meetings may attend online meetings in lieu of in-person meetings. This has been extended through May 31, 2020. Please see below for more information about online meeting attendance, or click here.

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Testing Site Changes:

April 23, 2020

In light of COVID-19, many testing sites have adopted modified operating and collection hours. If you are a participant selected to give a random urine test, please make sure you contact the testing site you plan to go to, and schedule an appointment to avoid long wait times. If you cannot locate a testing site, please contact HAVEN.

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Online Meeting Attendance:

April 2, 2020

HAVEN professionals who are required to attend anonymous support group meetings may attend online meetings in lieu of in-person meetings from now until April 30, 2020 to lessen exposure to other individuals.

Please send verification of attendance.

For High Watch please email Jenn Worthington at jworthington@highwatchrecovery.org to request a verification of meeting attendance.

Please note: HAVEN will accept any in-person meetings that have transitioned to Zoom or another video-based platform, in addition to the above online options. Please document these meetings as you would in-person meetings.

In addition, the North Haven Caduceus group is going to zoom format stating this Thursday 4/3/20. This meeting is open to MDs, DOs, APRNs, PAs, dentists and students in those categories (any prescribers). If you are interested and eligible to attend these meetings, please send an email to to request the login information.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Precautions:

March 13, 2020

Please click here for information on HAVEN's precautionary measures and guidelines regarding COVID-19. Please call the office at 860-828-3175 if you have further questions.

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2020 HAVEN Schedule:

January 10, 2020

In 2020, HAVEN will be closed for the following holidays:

New Year’s Day – (January 1)

Good Friday – (April 10*)

Memorial Day – (May 25)

Independence Day Weekend – (July 3*)

Labor Day – (September 7)

Thanksgiving – (November 26 & November 27*)

Holiday Break – (December 24*, December 25, December 29*, December 30*)

New Year's Eve – (December 31*)