Connecticut’s 102 youth services bureaus annually serve thousands of children who are abused, abandoned, medicated and weary of lives chained to poverty. They use some $3.1 million dollars in state funds to leverage nearly ten times that amount from other sources. Cutting their funding would be costly in both money and lost services to some of the state’s most needy citizens.
Alan M. Slobodien
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Connecticut youth services bureaus provide high-value work, little cost
Connecticut’s 102 youth services bureaus annually serve thousands of children who are abused, abandoned, medicated and weary of lives chained to poverty. They use some $3.1 million dollars in state funds to leverage nearly ten times that amount from other sources. Cutting their funding would be costly in both money and lost services to some of the state’s most needy citizens.