Be a part of the Community Child Guidance Clinic's Second Wine and Wishes fundraiser and help support children's mental health and special education services!

Even though we still can't wait to see you all at our next live and in-person event, we are truly looking forward to an evening of fun and celebration, live-streamed to you in the comfort of your own home. We are once again excited to bring you a guided virtual wine tasting (this year in partnership with One Hope Wine) along with some interactive entertainment and chances to win prizes! Join in for some or all of the event, but most importantly, don't miss this chance to support the kids in our community who need our help!

How to participate:

Tickets: Though our deadlines to purchase wine and food have passed for this year, you can still purchase a virtual event ticket on this page!

Other ways to support: Can't attend on the day? You can also still click above to make a donation in support of CCGC! Simply click the "Donate and Tickets" button above and click the "No thanks, I'd just like to donate" link.

After Purchasing tickets: watch your email for updates. Before the day of the live stream, we'll send you a few more details about the live stream event, as well as instructions on picking up food, for those that have purchased. On December 2nd, we'll send you the special link to view the live stream, which will include the wine tasting. At this point, you're all ready for the event!

*If you are still interested in purchasing additional full-size bottles of wine from One Hope Wines, click here! When you use this link specifically, 10% of wine purchases will go back to benefit CCGC. You can use this link to make purchases even if you don't attend the event, or even if you did not purchase a flight for the guided tasting.

Thank You

Whether you donate, purchase wine, or participate in Wine and Wishes, we thank you for supporting our mission. These past two years have been challenging for everyone, but for the kids who are already working to overcome mental health and special education difficulties, it has been especially difficult. Proceeds from this event will support the services provided at our school, where children with special education and mental health difficulties can get the personalized help and wrap-around support that they need. Once you register, we'll be able to keep you updated throughout this process, so that you can directly witness the powerful things that can happen when we come together as a community.

About our Organization

Community Child Guidance Clinic, Inc. is a private, nonprofit, special education and mental health agency offering diagnostic, treatment, and consultation services to children 0-18 and their families. CCGC has worked to provide quality care for children suffering from mental and behavioral health concerns for over 60 years, and its mission states: “Our mission is to assist and support children with emotional and behavioral issues by providing a special education day school and a system of child and family-focused mental health services.” The agency fulfills this mission by providing an array of services for children including outpatient counseling, in-home services, an intensive outpatient program, therapeutic groups, Victims of Crime Assistance Services (VOCA), and a clinical day school. CCGC makes these services available to all children living in central Connecticut and offers vital opportunities for treatment, healing, and growth in a location that is accessible to families. The agency currently serves over 35 towns throughout Connecticut, and over 700 children each year.

CCGC originally opened its doors in 1959, with the mission of providing mental health services to families in Manchester and surrounding towns who would have otherwise needed to travel a significant distance when seeking care. CCGC’s small staff originally only provided outpatient counseling and psychiatric services, but later the agency grew to include a preschool and sexual abuse treatment team. These added programs represent the beginning of an ongoing commitment at CCGC to provide services that are relevant to the current needs of the community and which utilize the most contemporary practices in the field. Today, CCGC continues this tradition with the more recent additions of multiple Evidence-Based Practices, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC), and Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH).

Wine and Wishes 2021

A virtual wine tasting to raise funding for mental health and special education services for children