The Village for Families & Children has been awarded a grant of $150,000 from The Cigna Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Cigna Group, to help address the youth mental health crisis.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education (BOR) has announced that it will launch a competitive national search in 2026 for the next permanent chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system.
Read MoreConnecticut has a newly elected Governor. The fifth graders of Connecticut have spoken and have elected Theresa "Tessa" Hallinan of Green Acres Elementary School in North Haven as Connecticut's 2026 Kid Governor.
Read MoreLaw firm Hinckley Allen, with offices in eight states including Connecticut, hosted a book launch celebration recently for the release of the third edition of Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving, an acclaimed, research-based guide for parents, co-authored by Connecticut resident and firm partner Timothy Hollister.
Read MoreConnecticut’s Family and Medical Leave Act (CTFMLA) and Paid Leave Act (CTPL) administrators recently published a detailed overview of employee rights under state law.
Read MoreDuring the just-concluded fiscal year, according to a new report,15,678 calls came into the Mobile Crisis line at 2-1-1, resulting in 11,608 episodes of care.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Health Foundation has recently awarded 29 grants totaling $742,000 to organizations across the state to further health equity and access, including some supporting the work of trusted messengers in the community and others designed to assist amidst the current ongoing shifts in federal policy.
Read MoreThe City of Hartford, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the United Way of Central and Northeastern CT, and the Aspen Institute announced this week they will be investing more than $1.2 million to implement the Hartford Opportunity Youth Collaborative’s newly developed two-year plan.
Read MoreGovernor Lamont and Connecticut Higher Education Commissioner Timothy D. Larson have announced the launch of a Youth Service-Learning Training Series that is being offered at no cost to participants in a series of webinars beginning this month.
Read MoreEight colleges and universities located in the state of Connecticut have earned a place on the Forbes Top 500 list of the leading higher education institutions in the U.S. for 2026, recently published by the magazine with the start of the 2025-26 academic year.
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