Empower People.
Transform Community.
Together, we work diligently to be a part of the solution to reduce youth and gun violence, advocate for healthier communities, and create a positive impact that extends far beyond today for the underserved and marginalized youth, families, and neighborhoods throughout Southwestern CT and beyond.
Our Impact
By collaborating alongside our neighbors, from pre-K to adulthood, we make a profound impact on the lives of over 50,000 individuals in the greater Bridgeport region each year. These resilient youth and their families face incredible challenges, navigating the complex realities of a post-pandemic world, substance misuse and addiction, persistent violence, enduring poverty, mental illness, and the burden of generational trauma. One notable example of this impact can be seen through our restorative justice efforts. Restorative Justice is one of the many ways we serve more than 19,000 students and 1,500 school staff members across multiple school districts.
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Catalyst Advocacy
Catalyst CT’s advocacy starts at a grassroots level, standing on a footing that is inclusive, diverse, and motivated. We empower community members by giving them tools and information to advocate for themselves. Together, we harness the power of people to encourage policy and systems change.
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As the year ends, this work still needs you. 💛
Your support empowers young people, transforms harm into growth, and helps repeat what works — until real change takes hold.
✨ Make your year-end gift today and inspire what comes next.
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Meet Jacqueline, our State Opioid Response Coordinator with The Hub.
Her lived experience navigating substance use and recovery reshaped her path — inspiring her to leave her previous career and focus on preventing drug poisoning deaths through training, awareness, and resources and reducing stigma around recovery.
Today, Jacqueline helps others see what she knows firsthand: recovery is possible, and shared experience can save lives.
Share this story and spread hope as we close the year. 💙
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✨ This season shines brighter because of you. ✨
As the year comes to a close, we’re filled with gratitude. 💛
Your support empowered youth, strengthened families, and helped transform communities across our region. This is what impact looks like — shared, repeated, and rooted in care.
Wishing you warmth, peace, and meaningful moments as the year ends.
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Midwinter is about to get soulful. ✨
We’re bringing Motown vibes to Bridgeport for a night of music, movement, and community power.
Live performances. Great food. A packed dance floor.
And a purpose that fuels real change.
✨ Save the date! This is one night you won’t want to miss.
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Meet Cait, our Suicide Prevention Coordinator.
Her lived experience with suicide shaped her purpose and inspires her work every day.
She turns grief into guidance — and hope into real impact for families and communities.
🙌 Share this post to help uplift and honor lived-experience leadership
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StreetSafe outreach workers are credible messengers with lived experience — mentors who help interrupt conflict and guide youth toward safer paths. Growing up in Bridgeport, they understand the challenges young people face.
➡️Tag someone who believes in second chances and safer communities.
#BridgeportStrong #ViolencePrevention #StreetSafeBridgeport
Bridgeport faces deep inequities that put youth at risk — but Restorative Justice offers a way forward.
Catalyst CT helps young people and families build skills, strengthen connections, and reclaim opportunity, even in difficult situations.
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This year, we trained 1,015 people in naloxone, distributed 1,035 doses, and shared 484 rescue kits. 💛
Every kit is a chance to save a life — and our community showed up.
👉 Be part of the solution. Get connected with naloxone training on our website
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Our values guide everything we do:
✨ Community Voices
✨ Collaboration
✨ Inclusion
✨ Innovation
✨ Integrity
These principles shape our work, our partnerships, and our impact.
✨ Which value speaks to you the most? Drop your vote below!
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When credible messengers show up for youth, transformation follows. ✨`
StreetSafe Bridgeport is helping reduce conflict, build trust, and strengthen community safety every day.
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Youth support happens in real moments — coaching, restorative conversations, and partnership with families. 💛
When young people build skills and caregivers gain tools to listen and lead, everyone grows stronger together.
This is mentorship in action. This is community care.
✨ Share this post to help amplify support for youth across our region.
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In 2025, 115 youth were diverted from the court system through our Restorative Justice programs. 💛
That’s 115 young people gaining a chance to grow, rebuild, and move forward.
This is what community-centered impact looks like.
And we’re just getting started.
✨ Learn more about our Restorative Justice work. ➡️ Link in Bio
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