DeLauro: CT providers’ federal grants represent ‘amazing victory’
Bridges Healthcare in Milford and BHCare in North Haven will each receive $600,000 to support their work providing mental healthcare to local youth, announced U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, at a press conference at Bridges on Thursday.
The congresswoman called the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, grants “an amazing victory.” The federal agency cancelled $2 billion in grants in January, only to have the decision reversed a day later after a national outcry. The cuts would have affected some 2,000 programs across the U.S.
“Providers around the county were shocked by what was such an unpredictable action,” DeLauro said, thanking state leaders for leading that outcry in Connecticut. “They reversed all of that. Public outcry wins the day, my friends.”
“It’s so important that any of you who are supportive of nonprofits speak up,” said Gian-Carl Casa, president and CEO of the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance. “We have to keep pushing for mor…