United Community and Family Services Receives New Federal Funding to Support Children in Need, Courtney Announces
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June 24, 2022
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United Community and Family Services Receives New Federal Funding to Support Children in Need, Courtney Announces
New federal funding will help expand services for children who have undergone severe trauma and stress
NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a federal grant totaling $400,000 to United Community and Family Services, a non-profit Community Health Center serving communities and families throughout southeastern Connecticut. The new federal funding was awarded through HHS’s office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and will be used to expand child traumatic stress screening and treatment services in southeast Connecticut.
“UCFS Healthcare is thrilled to have the opportunity to provide innovative behavioral health services to the most vulnerable among us, young children from birth to age six”, stated Jennifer Granger, President & CEO of UCFS Healthcare, a community health center headquartered in Norwich, CT. “An integrated team of medical, dental, and behavioral health providers will be trained to identify children who have experienced trauma and connect them and their caregivers to specialists for diagnostic evaluation and treatment. Behavioral health services for children are sorely needed in eastern CT, and we will now be able to grow our team of early childhood clinical experts to meet this need.”
“Demand for mental health services and crisis recovery is still at alarmingly high levels around the country, and this funding is going to help kids who have gone through some very difficult, traumatic experiences to get the care they need to live happily and healthily,” said Congressman Courtney. “At United Community and Family Services, this is the kind of important work that Jennifer Granger and her team are focused on day in and day out—they operate high-quality, trusted community care centers, they’ve helped our communities respond to the uptick in demand for mental health care services since the start of the pandemic and long before, and these new resources mean they’ll be even better prepared to respond to help children and families in our region. Congratulations to the entire team at UCFS on earning this new support, and thank you to all of them for the outstanding work they do for our region.”
United Community and Family Services will receive a federal grant award of $400,000 to expand child traumatic stress screening and treatment services throughout communities in southeastern Connecticut. The funding is being awarded through the HHS office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Projects of Regional and National Significance program.
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