{"id":17088,"date":"2015-11-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/education-connection-partners-receive-375k-federal-grant-for-youth-mental-health-initiative-in-nw-ct\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:14:17","slug":"education-connection-partners-receive-375k-federal-grant-for-youth-mental-health-initiative-in-nw-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/education-connection-partners-receive-375k-federal-grant-for-youth-mental-health-initiative-in-nw-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Conneciton Partners Receive $375K Federal Grant for Youth Mental Health Initiative in NW CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Connection\u00a0in collaboration with Northwestern Regional School District 7 and the NW CT Youth and Adolescent Mental Health Coalition has received a three-year, $375,000 Project AWARE Community grant to support Youth Mental Health First Aid training in northwest Connecticut. One of 70 grants awarded across the nation, Project AWARE is funded by the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11\/03\/2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/community\/litchfield\/hc-ugc-article-education-connection-partners-receive-375k-2015-11-02-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Source<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Connection\u00a0in collaboration with Northwestern Regional School District 7 and the NW CT Youth and Adolescent Mental Health Coalition has received a three-year, $375,000 Project AWARE Community grant to support &#8230; <a title=\"Education Conneciton Partners Receive $375K Federal Grant for Youth Mental Health Initiative in NW CT\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/education-connection-partners-receive-375k-federal-grant-for-youth-mental-health-initiative-in-nw-ct\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Education Conneciton Partners Receive $375K Federal Grant for Youth Mental Health Initiative in NW CT\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,194],"topic":[178],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-17088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-schools","tag-youth-and-teen","topic-mental-health","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Education Conneciton Partners Receive $375K Federal Grant for Youth Mental Health Initiative in NW CT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/education-connection-partners-receive-375k-federal-grant-for-youth-mental-health-initiative-in-nw-ct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Education Conneciton Partners Receive $375K Federal Grant for Youth Mental Health Initiative in NW CT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Education Connection\u00a0in collaboration with Northwestern Regional School District 7 and the NW CT Youth and Adolescent Mental Health Coalition has received a three-year, $375,000 Project AWARE Community grant to support ... 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