Nantucket panel seeks stable human-services funding as needs assessment, contract changes advance

Apr 26, 2025

The Council for Human Services urged town officials to formalize and increase human-services and substance-misuse funding after years of flat allocations, and launched a needs assessment and administrative changes to improve grant delivery and community resource access.

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The Council for Human Services on April 24 pressed Town officials to formalize and possibly increase the town's annual human-services funding after years of a flat allocation and recent cuts to a substance-misuse funding stream. Council for Human Services Chair Veronica Bolchick said the council will ask the town's Contract Review Committee and finance officials to seek a clearer, inflation-adjusted funding formula.

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