Root Center for Advanced Recovery welcomes new Director of Strategic Initiatives

We are thrilled to welcome Tracy Oni to the “Root” family as our Director of Strategic Initiatives. Tracy has over 12 years of experience working in healthcare in various capacities which include research, operations, process improvement and management. She is passionate about promoting health equity and reducing barriers to care while enhancing the patient experience. Some roles that she has held include: Project Manager at Columbia University Medical Center, Operations Manager at Community Health Center, Inc. and most recently an Administrator at Baystate Health/High Street Health Center. We know that Tracy will be a wonderful addition to the team to help develop strategic projects that will facilitate continued growth while forming partnerships in the community that will augment the services that we provide to our more than 5,500 clients.

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Spring 2025 Newsletter

June 25, 2025

Summer is here following a busy spring packed with excitement! From our Lafayette Street Clinic Grand Opening to the Middletown Pride Parade, we kept ourselves busy in our communities. In our last newsletter, we were close to opening our Lafayette Street Clinic, a new location in Hartford where our Doctors Clinic staff and patients (currently on Main Street) will move when we begin accepting patients starting June 23rd! But that's just the beginning! We have hosted many exciting events this spring, including our most recent Community Forum on Burnout, our Annual Years of Service Awards, and a documentary screening of an independent film focusing on four women in recovery. It's been a jam-packed spring, and there's so much to share. Keep reading for some special announcements and updates!

Root Center Community Forum - Breaking Free From Burnout: More Than Just Stress

May 12, 2025

Our Community Forum was a success! Burnout: More than Just Stress, was a wonderful, insightful, and at times even funny conversation about occupational and personal burnout, shifting legislature, personal coping strategies, systemic changes, the effect of burnout in children, and so much more! The Root Center is proud to offer free events like this as part of our Advanced Recovery Institute (ARI). The ARI is committed to research and training to elevate clinical care. It is our hope that by organizing these forums that we will help expand our understanding and awareness of topics that impact our communities. Special thanks to all of our panelists for your insight and expertise: Samantha Alzate LCSW , - Owner of Mindful Transformations Brent Heineman, MD/MPH - Psychiatry Intern at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Christian Damiana - Public Policy Manager at Mental Health Connecticut, Inc. Dr. Cassandra Holinka, PsyD - Clinical Psychologist & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Jay Lasser, M.D - Founder of The Center for Work Stress Reduction Kristine Olson , M.D., M.S. - Chief Wellness Officer for Yale New Haven Health