June 22, 2025 • 4 mins
Robin Sharp, President and CEO of Easter Seals Capital Region and Eastern CT, joins us live at the Travelers Championship. Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut provides critical services and powerful advocacy so that people with disabilities and active military and veterans are provided with the resources they need to achieve their full potential in life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. My guest today is Robin Sharp, President and
CEO of Eastern Seals Capital Region and Eastern Connecticut. We're
here at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, Good morning, Elis, and nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Nice to see you too. I love Easter Seals. It's
so wonderful for people who don't know about you. How
did it all begin and what is it that you do?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, our Eastern Sales here in Capital Region in Eastern
Connecticut started seventy a seventy seven years ago, are coming
up on under seventy seventh anniversary, and we per formed
to help people with disabilities and veteranies. And actually Eastern
Seals has been serving veterans since World War Two, which
many people don't really put us together with that. You know,
(00:43):
that community. It's such an important, important part of the
work that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We do and how are you able to do that?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So what we do is we helped try and ease
that transition from the military life to civilian life. We
have an incredible program in Norwich, cub Veterans Rally Point
that is this really great facility that's serving as a
model for other communities around the country. Brings together all
services that veterans might need under one root, so including
(01:13):
we have a beautiful gym and wellness center, we have
a maker space, we have a commercial kitchen, We have
veteran service officers that are in our facility almost every day.
We have pre support behavioral health, and we just were
awarded a grant not tut a year ago from Staff
Sergeant Parker Ford Fox suicide prevention funds for veterans. So
(01:36):
preventing suicide among our military is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
One of our main business.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We also helped people get to work. We try and
help to address anything. We're also open to families.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You mentioned people with disabilities. How is it that you
help them?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We do all kinds of different programs including adult based support,
employment services, in home supports, so anything that someone with
a disability special an intellectual or developmental visability might need,
and we try and talk to provide.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You must see personal stories of people. What kind of
positive impact has it had?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think you know when people walk into Veterans rally
Point especially and they look and say Raminic, well like
I finally comfortrol because there's really the very unique experience
that our military people have that not everyone can relate to,
especially in a Debland workplace. And so when they come
(02:33):
into us and they're surrounded by other veterans because we
try and hire veterans to serve our veterans, they feel
like they have finally are in a community, in a
space where they feel like they are understood.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's so important to be with people who get it.
You know, it makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It really does. And if you go on our Facebook
page Seals have original are using any Cerconnecticut, or on
our website which is Easterfals dot com Forward slash Report,
you can see some great stories about the individuals that
we are working.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So do you have any events coming off?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have two. We actually have our own tournament September
twenty ninth, and then we have a five K you
call it the five p Year Away. It's a run,
rock walk whatever it is that and we want to
do for that five KAY and that is October nineteenth
at Blinding Truck.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now you're participating with Birdie's for charity. You couldn't do
any of this work if it weren't for donations and
your volunteers and your sponsors.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Our donors, our supporters, our sponsors, our volunteers. They are
the part and sold what we do and they make
all of this possible, so we really want to thank them.
This is our first experience with Birdie's for Charity. Webster
Bank has been a partner of ours time and we're
very grateful for that. Now that they're giving to help
make these donations go even further.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So for every dollar that they raise, Webster Bank is
going to give fifteen cents, and if you don't there
are no fees included. So go to Easterseals dot com,
forward Slash Hartford or Travelers Championship dot com and please
make your donation right now because it ends today at midnight.
I'm speaking with Robin Sharp, President and CEO of Easter
(04:16):
Seals Capital Region and Eastern Connecticut. Thank you so much
for being here today and for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you
Good morning. My guest today is Robin Sharp, President and
CEO of Eastern Seals Capital Region and Eastern Connecticut. We're
here at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, Good morning, Elis, and nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Nice to see you too. I love Easter Seals. It's
so wonderful for people who don't know about you. How
did it all begin and what is it that you do?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, our Eastern Sales here in Capital Region in Eastern
Connecticut started seventy a seventy seven years ago, are coming
up on under seventy seventh anniversary, and we per formed
to help people with disabilities and veteranies. And actually Eastern
Seals has been serving veterans since World War Two, which
many people don't really put us together with that. You know,
(00:43):
that community. It's such an important, important part of the
work that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We do and how are you able to do that?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So what we do is we helped try and ease
that transition from the military life to civilian life. We
have an incredible program in Norwich, cub Veterans Rally Point
that is this really great facility that's serving as a
model for other communities around the country. Brings together all
services that veterans might need under one root, so including
(01:13):
we have a beautiful gym and wellness center, we have
a maker space, we have a commercial kitchen, We have
veteran service officers that are in our facility almost every day.
We have pre support behavioral health, and we just were
awarded a grant not tut a year ago from Staff
Sergeant Parker Ford Fox suicide prevention funds for veterans. So
(01:36):
preventing suicide among our military is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
One of our main business.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We also helped people get to work. We try and
help to address anything. We're also open to families.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You mentioned people with disabilities. How is it that you
help them?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We do all kinds of different programs including adult based support,
employment services, in home supports, so anything that someone with
a disability special an intellectual or developmental visability might need,
and we try and talk to provide.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You must see personal stories of people. What kind of
positive impact has it had?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think you know when people walk into Veterans rally
Point especially and they look and say Raminic, well like
I finally comfortrol because there's really the very unique experience
that our military people have that not everyone can relate to,
especially in a Debland workplace. And so when they come
(02:33):
into us and they're surrounded by other veterans because we
try and hire veterans to serve our veterans, they feel
like they have finally are in a community, in a
space where they feel like they are understood.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's so important to be with people who get it.
You know, it makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It really does. And if you go on our Facebook
page Seals have original are using any Cerconnecticut, or on
our website which is Easterfals dot com Forward slash Report,
you can see some great stories about the individuals that
we are working.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So do you have any events coming off?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have two. We actually have our own tournament September
twenty ninth, and then we have a five K you
call it the five p Year Away. It's a run,
rock walk whatever it is that and we want to
do for that five KAY and that is October nineteenth
at Blinding Truck.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now you're participating with Birdie's for charity. You couldn't do
any of this work if it weren't for donations and
your volunteers and your sponsors.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Our donors, our supporters, our sponsors, our volunteers. They are
the part and sold what we do and they make
all of this possible, so we really want to thank them.
This is our first experience with Birdie's for Charity. Webster
Bank has been a partner of ours time and we're
very grateful for that. Now that they're giving to help
make these donations go even further.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So for every dollar that they raise, Webster Bank is
going to give fifteen cents, and if you don't there
are no fees included. So go to Easterseals dot com,
forward Slash Hartford or Travelers Championship dot com and please
make your donation right now because it ends today at midnight.
I'm speaking with Robin Sharp, President and CEO of Easter
(04:16):
Seals Capital Region and Eastern Connecticut. Thank you so much
for being here today and for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you
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