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Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2026

Listed below are the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies projects Senator Blumenthal has submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee selects the final projects from the projects submitted by all senators. Therefore, neither submission of an application nor Senator Blumenthal’s approved list of projects are guaranteed for final funding.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order. 

Albertus Magnus College—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,556,000
  • This project will provide funding for nursing program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Institute, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $120,000
  • This project will provide funding for workforce development programming, which may include supportive services for veterans.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Arts Council of Greater New Haven—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $135,000
  • This project will provide funding for youth arts journalism initiative.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Arts for Learning Connecticut, Inc.—Statewide

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding for education program expansion.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Aspire Living & Learning—Hamden, CT

  • Amount Requested: $150,000
  • This project will provide funding for housing program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Best Buddies International, Inc.—New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding for school mentorship program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding for youth readiness programs.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $200,000
  • This project will provide funding for workforce development programs, which may include equipment and supplies, stipends, facilities, or transportation.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Bridgeport Public Schools—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for career and technical education training, which may include stipends or the purchase of equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Bridgeport Public Schools—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for behavioral support and school safety initiative.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Bristol Hospital—Bristol, CT

  • Amount Requested: $6,363,000
  • This project will provide funding for medical center construction and expansion.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Bristol Works, Inc.—Bristol, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for workforce development training programs, which may include equipment, supplies, and support services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Capital Workforce Partners, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $400,000
  • This project will provide funding for upskilling, which may include equipment and supportive services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

CCARC, Inc.—New Britain, CT

  • Amount Requested: $189,000
  • This project will provide funding for manufacturing internships and workforce development programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

CT Puerto Rican Forum dba Center for Latino Progress—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,184,000
  • This project will provide funding for workforce development programming, which may include stipends and the purchase of equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.—Statewide

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding for support services for court advocates serving children in foster care and protective supervision.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc.—Farmington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $371,000
  • This project will provide funding for substance use prevention and education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Historical Society, dba Connecticut Museum of Cultural and History— Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for civics education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Children’s Law Center, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $100,000
  • This project will provide funding for staff providing legal representation for children in family court.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New Haven—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,483,000
  • This project will provide funding for Career Connected Learning Hub, which may include equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Community Health Center, Inc. of Connecticut—Middletown, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for health, nutrition, and education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Children’s—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,153,000
  • This project will provide funding for medical unit equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Counseling Centers, Inc.—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $258,000
  • This project will provide funding for integrated health record system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Institute for the Blind, dba Oak Hill—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility construction.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Junior Republic Association—Litchfield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,650,000
  • This project will provide funding for school-based behavioral and mental health services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,550,000
  • This project will provide funding for educational programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $822,000
  • This project will provide funding for integrated behavioral health treatment and services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

DAE (formally District Arts and Education)—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,200,000
  • This project will provide funding for program expansion.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Day Kimball Hospital—Putnam, CT

  • Amount Requested: $985,000
  • This project will provide funding for equipment and renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Discovery Museum, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $271,000
  • This project will provide funding for
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Domestic Violence Crisis Center—Norwalk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $124,000
  • This project will provide funding for youth violence prevention education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

EASTCONN Regional Education Service Center, Inc.—Hampton, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for special education services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Elena’s Light—North Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $325,000
  • This project will provide funding for educational resources.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Fair Haven Community Health Clinic, Inc.—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $762,000
  • This project will provide funding for behavioral health services
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Inc.—Fairfield County, CT

  • Amount Requested: $497,000
  • This project will provide funding for wealth gap research and recommendations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Family & Children’s Aid, Inc.—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $350,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction and facility upgrades.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Family Centers, Inc.—Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,009,000
  • This project will provide funding for building renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Flagman, Inc.—Fairfield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,997,000
  • This project will provide funding for traffic safety education in Connecticut schools.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

For All Ages, Inc.—Simsbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $222,000
  • This project will provide funding for taskforce to improve the social and mental health of college students.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Forge City Works—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for workforce development programming, which may include supportive services, the purchase of equipment or supplies, or stipends.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Future 5—Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $559,000
  • This project will provide funding for college readiness and success program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Global Partnership to End Human Trafficking Corporation—Manchester, CT

  • Amount Requested: $105,000
  • This project will provide funding for clinical behavioral health services for survivors.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Hands on Hartford—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $586,000
  • This project will provide funding for wrap-around services for seniors and individuals with disabilities.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $100,000
  • This project will provide funding for arts education programs.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Harriot Community Health Initiative—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for the expansion of the Harriot Community Healthcare Academy, which may include software, equipment, and support services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Honor Wellness Center—Glastonbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $50,000
  • This project will provide funding for training and outreach facility equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Housatonic Youth Services Bureau, Inc.—Statewide

  • Amount Requested: $115,000
  • This project will provide funding for collaboration and expansion of youth initiatives.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

KNOX, Inc.—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $231,000
  • This project will provide funding for a green jobs apprenticeship program, which may include stipends.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Liberation Programs, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction and facility updates.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

LifeBridge Community Services, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $265,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

McCall Foundation, Inc., dba McCall Behavioral Health Network—Torrington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $264,000
  • This project will provide funding for purchasing and retrofitting mobile clinic.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Middlesex United Way—Middlesex, CT

  • Amount Requested: $75,000
  • This project will provide funding for program to support social isolated older adults.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

MidState Arc, Inc.—Meriden, CT

  • Amount Requested: $611,000
  • This project will provide funding for assistive technology for seniors.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Pond Farm Education Center, Inc.—Redding, CT

  • Amount Requested: $200,000
  • This project will provide funding for farming education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

New Opportunities, Inc. —Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $623,000
  • This project will provide funding for the Connecticut Manufacturing Assistance Center, which may include supplies and equipment.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Norwalk Community Health Center, Inc.—Norwalk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $906,000
  • This project will provide funding for fully equipped mobile unit.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $665,000
  • This project will provide funding for reentry job training, which may include supportive services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Ocean Exploration Trust—New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $407,000
  • This project will provide funding for educational exhibit on ocean exploration.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of New London County, Inc.—New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $800,000
  • This project will provide funding for employment training, which may include equipment and supplies.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Reading Is Fundamental—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for literacy initiative.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Reliance Health—Norwich, CT

  • Amount Requested: $329,000
  • This project will provide funding for building repairs.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.—Lebanon, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

SilverSource—Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $200,000
  • This project will provide funding for independent living assistance services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

SoundWaters, Inc.—Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $478,000
  • This project will provide funding for student education program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Southwest Community Health Center, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,800,000
  • This project will provide funding for behavioral health center repairs and renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

StayWell Health Care, Inc.—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $750,000
  • This project will provide funding for health information technology infrastructure.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Housing Collective—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $723,000
  • This project will provide funding for housing data platform.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Justice Education Center, Inc.—West Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $929,000
  • This project will provide funding for summer programming for students.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts—Norwalk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $325,000
  • This project will provide funding for education research.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

University of Connecticut—Storrs, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for research facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

United Services, Inc.—Dayville, CT

  • Amount Requested: $58,000
  • This project will provide funding for office renovations.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

University of Bridgeport, Inc.—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $3,415,000
  • This project will provide funding for IT infrastructure.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

University of Saint Joseph—West Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $300,000
  • This project will provide funding for healthcare student training program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Urban League of Greater Hartford—Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding for wrap-around services to support college access.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Voices of September 11, Inc.—New Canaan, CT

  • Amount Requested: $661,000
  • This project will provide funding for centralized clearinghouse of information and resources for individuals impacted by tragedy.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Wakeman Memorial Association—Bridgeport, CT

  • Amount Requested: $300,000
  • This project will provide funding for after-school programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Waterbury Bridge to Success Partnership, Inc.—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $875,000
  • This project will provide funding for food security initiative.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Wesleyan University—Statewide

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for financial aid program to support formally incarcerated students.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging—Waterbury, CT

  • Amount Requested: $700,000
  • This project will provide funding for transportation network for older adults.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Windham Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation—Willimantic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $380,000
  • This project will provide funding for wrap-around services to veterans.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.