The Valley Council for Health and Human Services (“Valley Council”) is a collective impact partnership of nonprofit organizations that serve the residents of Connecticut’s Lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton).

Established in 1993, the Valley Council has initiated and supported numerous initiatives to improve life in the Valley through successful collaboration among our member organizations and community partners. In 2022 and 2023, we began our journey to become a Collective Impact partnership to strengthen our ability to support the community. Advancing change rooted in racial equity, Collective Impact brings people together in a structural way to achieve large-scale, social change – it is defined as a network of community members, organizations, and institutions that advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change1.

The Valley Council works to strengthen the capacity of our member agencies and community partners to provide high quality health, wellbeing and human services in the Valley region that address social drivers of health. By coming together to build relationships, exchange information, share resources, identify community needs, and plan for community solutions, we collaborate to improve quality of life for Valley residents. 

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