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Regional Agwell program ordered to pause after grant freeze, leaders say
Summary
Members of the Behavioral Health & Agriculture Working Group said a regional grant for the Agwell program was frozen six weeks before the meeting, forcing an operational pause, staff reductions and a search for bridge funding while the group monitors state budget cuts.
Tyler Garrett, director of government relations for the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, told the Behavioral Health & Agriculture Working Group that its regional Agwell grant was frozen and operations were ordered to stop. “hace 6 semanas recibimos notificación. Que nuestra subvención de el programa regional había sido congelada y fueron ordenados a operar, a parar las operaciones en esos frentes,” Garrett said during the meeting.
The freeze, Garrett and other participants said, put program staff and local services at risk and prompted immediate outreach to congressional and federal partners and public communications. The group described short-term steps taken to keep core services running while the grant status is uncertain.
Why it matters: Agwell provides behavioral-health and wellbeing programming…
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