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New Haven health department seeks $1.8 million state grant for tobacco control programs
Summary
The New Haven Health Department requested board authorization to apply for and accept a $1,800,000 Best Practices in Tobacco Control grant from the Connecticut Department of Public Health for 12/01/2025–11/30/2028; the health committee favorably recommended the request.
The New Haven Health Department asked the city board to authorize applying for and accepting a $1,800,000 Best Practices in Tobacco Control grant from the Connecticut Department of Public Health covering 12/01/2025 to 11/30/2028.
The health and human services committee voted to favorably recommend the request to the full board. Committee members described the grant as funding tobacco-cessation programs and efforts to promote smoke-free living intended to reduce commercial tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in New Haven and the Greater New Haven region. The committee said the New Haven Health Department would administer the programs and related services if the grant is awarded.
Committee members who spoke noted the grant amount and the performance period and urged approval; the committee recorded its favorable recommendation at its April 29, 2025 meeting. The transcript for the meeting records the committee’s overview of program goals and the request that the board approve the application and acceptance of the award. The full board’s final vote on the grant application is not specified in the provided transcript excerpts.
If approved and awarded, the grant would fund tobacco-control programming administered by the New Haven Health Department over the three-year period specified in the application documents. The board packet and grant documents were referenced during committee discussion but specific program budgets or staffing plans were not detailed in the portions of the transcript provided.
