June 2021 Newsletter – CAFCA

Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – June 9, 2021

Residents who need help paying their utility bills and primary heating costs can still apply for the Connecticut Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) at their local Community Action Agency (CAA). The application deadline has been extended to June 15, 2021 - see Governor Lamont's press release.

• Congratulations Access to Employment Skills Training Program Graduates, Access CAA
• Opinion: The action in Community Action Month (Dr. Monette Ferguson, CT Post, 5/26/21)
• CRT welcomes Senators Murphy and Blumenthal, Rep. Larson to promote passage of American Families Plan, CRT

• Reform advocates make final push for relief for CT’s poor and middle class (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/8/21)
• Connecticut legislators pursue Medicaid expansion for 1,900 undocumented children (Jenna Carlesso, 6/8/21)
• Public health workers targeting areas with lower COVID-19 vaccination rates (Erica Moser, The Day, 6/7/21)
• Nonprofits, low-income families are winners in two-year, $46 billion Connecticut state budget; lawmakers also seek to help cities as state House prepares to vote Tuesday (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6/7/21)
• CT’s civil rights enforcement agency: segregation has ‘particularly deadly effect’ amid pandemic (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 5/24/21)
• Child care workers face daunting return (Amanda Blanco, Hartford Courant, 5/19/21)

• New Opportunities, Inc. COVID-19 Vaccine Community Event, June 12

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