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RMFU keeps AgWell staff after federal RASAP grant freeze; programming trimmed
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Rocky Mountain Farmers Union said a federal RASAP grant was frozen, temporarily halting parts of its AgWell program. RMFU moved internal funds and secured a private grant to keep staff but cut some programming while awaiting federal clarity, officials told the Colorado Ag Behavioral Health Working Group.
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union said its AgWell farm behavioral-health program was forced to pause parts of its work after the Western Regional Agricultural Stress Assistance Program (RASAP) federal grant was frozen, and that RMFU shifted internal funding and secured a private grant to keep staff, Tyler Garrett, director of government relations for Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, said at the Ag Behavioral Health Working Group meeting.
The grant interruption, Garrett said, came without a clear timeline. “About 4, 6…
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