CT sues Trump administration over funds for mental health services in schools

CT Mirror – Tuesday, July 1, 2025
By Emilia Otte

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has joined a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from cancelling certain mental health grants for public schools — including one meant to fund social work interns serving four low-income districts in Connecticut.

The University of Connecticut’s Graduate School of Social Work had been awarded a five-year grant of just over $3 million as part of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Congress passed in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. The grant was meant to support 25 graduate students in social work to provide mental health services in four Connecticut school districts — Hartford, New Britain, Waterbury and Vernon.

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