For twenty years, New Canaan-based Voices Center for Resilience (VOICES) has been connecting survivors, victims' families, first responders and others to vital services, and to each other. It now also reaches those impacted by other traumatic events.
Executive Director Mary Fetchet says VOICES is still hearing from survivors, victim's families and first responders it hasn't heard from before: "Whether they call us on the first day, or 20 years later, we know what they've gone through. They don't have to explain what happened to them. And so, there's a real value in having an organization like that."
On Sept. 9 & 10, VOICES is hosting its 20th Anniversary Remembrance Symposium in Manhattan, not far from the 9/11 Memorial. The event at the Marriott Downtown Hotel, West Street, can also be viewed online.
WTIC's Dave Mager spoke to VOICES Executive Director Mary Fetchet, who helped found the organization in the months after her son, Brad, died on 9/11:
