Connecticut ranks among the top 10 states in offering access to mental health services for its youth population, according to the latest report from Mental Health America, but advocates said more could be done.
Read More“This should be a blinking red warning light for the higher ed industry. The model is broken - too many schools today are too expensive with not enough ROI. Time for reform,” said Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. Data in recent years, before and since COVID, is reflecting concern about higher education.
Read MoreHartford-based Aquiline Drones Corporation (AD), Connecticut's only drone manufacturing and technology company, has signed a multi-year agreement to offer its entire online drone pilot certification curriculum through the 17 institutions comprising Connecticut's State College and University system (CSCU).
Read MoreIt has become known as the Great Resignation – the disruption in the job market induced by the two plus years of the pandemic. The latest data, however, indicates that a state-by-state comparison show that Connecticut is among the most stable, showing the fifth lowest resignation rate.
Read MoreAs of July 1st, the Connecticut minimum wage was raised to $14/hour as part of a 5-year plan to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour by 2023. The increase was not without controversy, when the plan began, or now.
Read MoreYale University is one of only two institutions in New England that offers an academic nurse-midwifery specialty. The program, in the Yale School of Nursing, “prepares students as competent midwives who provide family-centered primary health care,” the university’s website explains, noting that “more now than ever, the need and demand for midwives is at an all-time high.”
Read MoreA classroom of Hamden sixth graders and members of a Farmington High School Political Action Club are this year’s recipients of the inaugural Governor M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Service Civility Awards.
Read MoreCommunity Health Center, Inc. (CHC) has been awarded $1,499,820 over 3 years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) The funds are to reduce uninsured rates and connect more children, parents, and families to health care coverage. CHC is the only recipient in the six New England states.
Read MoreThe New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) and the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) have announced plans, in collaboration with the State of Connecticut, to award grants to seven business-higher education partnerships in Connecticut as part of an initiative to rapidly increase the competitiveness of the state’s postsecondary institutions and meet growing business demand for tech skills.
Read MoreChildcare related costs continue to rise across the country, creating great challenges for working parents, particularly working mothers. A new transportation business arriving in Connecticut this month aims to respond to the growing need for assistance in getting young children from point A to point B.
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