Tools for Schools - FREE Event

Join us for free NEAT event for administrators, educators, speech language professionals, related service professionals, students with disabilities and their families.  View the latest in assistive and handheld technologies. CEUs available.

Date: Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010; time: 8:30AM-3:00PM

Location: The NEAT Center at Oak Hill

Featured Keynote Presentation: Samuel Sennott, Sennott Technologies and Co-Creator of the original Prologquo2Go, and Adam Bowker, CCC, SLP

Registration may be done online after August 1st, or by calling Julie Hein at (860) 243-2869

Oak Hill offers the widest range of disability-focused healthcare services in the state; (includes residential and day services; in-home services, education; birth to three services; assistive technology; relationship and sexuality education; arts & recreation; and training) to care for children and adults with multiple disabilities.

Our History

Caring for people with autism, click here for information on mini grants ($1,000) from Autism Society of Connecticut

We give a new generation of health care professionals’ new confidence in caring for children and adults with disabilities.

Our Goals -

1. Oak Hill is committed to maintaining and enhancing professional development to healthcare professionals.
2. Raising awareness in the community about living and working with people with disabilities; Training provided by experienced, compassionate professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with disabilities.

Who benefits from training?

• Special Education Teachers and Therapists
• Clinicians and Social Workers
• Physicians, Nurses and Medical Professionals
• College and Post-Graduate Teachers and Students (in areas of healthcare, gerontology)
• Parents and Families with disabled children and adults
• Assistive Technology and Disability Specialists
• Direct Care Professionals

Download Oak Hill Professional Development brochure; click on link

Earn Continuing Education Units (CEU’s), re-certification and state licensing

Current Courses

• Courses for people in the community

  Oak Hill Professional Development

Link to NEAT Center Professional Development 

CRSE Professional Development

• Course for Oak Hill Staff 

Oak Hill Professional Development 

Link to NEAT Center Professional Development

CRSE Professional Development

Get Started Today!

Call us at (860) 242-2274 or email: info@ciboakhill.org

Oak Hill Professional Development - contact Jim Pellino, program director, email: pellinoj@ciboakhill.org

NEAT Center at Oak Hill - Professional Development - contact , Jennifer Baker, AT Specialist, email: bakerj@ciboakhill.org

Center for Relationship & Sexuality Education (CRSE) - Professional Development - contact Lucille Duguay, LCSW, program director, email: duguayl@ciboakhill.org  

Positive Choices Program is Here

Oak Hill's Center for Relationship & Sexuality Education (CRSE) has published Positive Choices: A program on healthy relationships, sexuality, and safe boundaries for secondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  It may be purchased by calling Lucille Duguay, director at (860) 769-3500 or email at duguayl@ciboakhill.org or visiting www.oakhillcrse.org

Breast Health for Women with Intellectual Disabilities Teaching Manual

This curriculum is designed to increase the comfort, awareness, and skill of women with intellectual disabilities in relation to their own breast health.  In the accompanying PowerPoint presentation on CD-ROM, 3 women with disabilities act as role models to empower others to perform breast health self-examinations, and to tolerate clinical breast exams and mammograms. 

Care providers will find this curriculum essential to their commitment to best practice and quality improvement.  It includes valuable teaching strategies and laminated illustrations to augment learning.

"Reaching women with intellectual disabilities about breast health is essential yet often overlooked.  This teaching guide fills that gap in service and should be disseminated to all who work with this special population."  - Pauline Kezer, President, Connecticut Affiliate, Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Order a Teaching Manual - Price: $109.00 + $5.00 shipping and handling; CT Residents pay 6% sales tax

Order form accepts check, Visa, Mastercard or Discover cards; click document for form

Where do I take classes?

• Oak Hill’s Training Department is located at 120 Holcomb Street, Hartford
• NEAT Center at Oak Hill is located at the corners of Holcomb and Coventry Streets in Hartford (directions); or learn how NEAT can come to you!
• Center for Relationship & Sexuality Education is located at 120 Holcomb Street, Hartford; or learn how CRSE can come to you! 

Can I take courses online?

Not now, but in the near future.  If you'd like to learn more click here.

Are you interested in joining Oak Hill’s Team?

“At the heart of what we do are our direct care professionals who are residential program workers, job coaches, day program workers and assistant teachers. These are the wonderful people who provide the quality of hands on care that is the hallmark of Oak Hill.”

- Patrick J. Johnson, Jr., ACSW, president, Oak Hill