Ascend is a cradle-to-career effort to ensure that children and youth have the supports they need to reach their full potential.
Paul Dworkin, MD
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Cutting Help Me Grow program will inflict collateral damage
In his proposed budget, Gov. Dannel Malloy has targeted Help Me Grow, a program of Connecticut’s Office of Early Childhood, for elimination. The mandated reconciliation of the state budget deficit creates, by necessity, a painful dilemma akin to Hobson’s choice. However, certain decisions provoke unintended collateral damage. Such is the case with Help Me Grow.