12/22/2025
🌱 Celebrating a Milestone Moment for JT! 🌱
We are incredibly proud to celebrate the success of JT, an ABI Waiver participant who has achieved a major milestone on his recovery and vocational journey. Through hard work, perseverance, and the right community connections, JT successfully utilized SLG’s partnership with Healing by Growing Farms to build meaningful skills and hands-on experience, leading to his recent competitive employment with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). 👏
Healing by Growing Farms offers a truly unique and empowering environment for individuals living with brain injuries who have an interest in farming, horticulture, animal husbandry, and land stewardship. The program provides opportunities to develop real-world skills, confidence, routine, and purpose, often serving as a bridge between recovery and competitive employment.
JT’s success is a powerful example of what’s possible when person-centered support, community partnerships, and individual strengths align. We are grateful to Healing by Growing Farms for the meaningful opportunities they create and excited about the potential this partnership holds for SLG ABI Waiver and Private Pay participants who may be interested in similar vocational paths.
Congratulations, JT, we’re honored to be part of your journey and can’t wait to see what’s next! 🌾💙
