Under pressure to end a long running stalemate over the Connecticut state budget last year, lawmakers made a number of decisions that continued the destructive trend of unraveling the human services safety net. The continuation of recent years’ cuts to state subsidy funding for School Based Health Centers (SBHC) is among the most destructive of these reductions. With the new legislative session underway, we are hopeful lawmakers will find a way to halt this trend and reject the governor’s current proposal to reduce the budget further, by 5.84 percent, on top of the 2.14 percent cut to the SBHCs in last October’s approved budget.
Rick Calvert
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Op-Ed: Mental health and front page news – getting it right
May is “National Mental Health Awareness Month.” Across the country organizations will work to raise awareness in an effort to reduce stigma.
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Op-Ed: Mental health and front page news – getting it right
May is “National Mental Health Awareness Month.” Across the country organizations will work to raise awareness in an effort to reduce stigma.