Connecticut State Department of Public Health

COVID-19 Community Levels Update, March 17, 2023: The CDC has listed all eight Connecticut counties in the Low/Green category as part of its weekly Community Levels update. People who are at a high risk for severe illness should consider additional measures to minimize their exposure to COVID-19 and respiratory illnesses. Visit the CDC COVID-19 Community Levels Map for updates.


Please visit covidtests.gov to request four free COVID-19 self-test kits from the Federal Government. Find a location that has a supply of COVID-19 therapeutics as part of the Test to Treat initiative here. The complete DPH COVID-19 toolbox is located at ct.gov/coronavirus.

Health and Wellness

Connecticut EMS Advisory Board Health and Wellness Subcommittee

Chair – Kevin Ferrarotti

This group meets monthly to review resources available to the EMS community to assist providers in seeking mental health and wellness.  New members and attendees are always welcome to attend.  Virtual meetings are held on the second Friday of each month.

Resiliency Resource Listing

This listing of professional mental health providers is provided as is having been reviewed but not vetted by the Health and Wellness Subcommittee for the use of EMS providers and agencies to provide appropriate resources to those in need of professional counselling or therapy services.

Resiliency Resource Listing (updated June 2022) 

EMS Guidebook for Resiliency Resources

This guidebook is provided by the Health and Wellness Subcommittee as a resource for agencies seeking to provide personnel with

State of Connecticut EMS Resource Manual (updated June 2022)

Suicide Loss Survivor Package

Here to Help is a coalition of local Trumbull resources whose objectives are to promote healing among suicide loss survivors. They bring together an extended community of people who are poised to support those touched by suicide.

Trumbull EMS provides a suicide loss survivor package including resources

If you wish to send a care package to a first responder who has recently lost a loved one to suicide, email ems@trumbull-ct.gov.