Connecticut’s social services safety net is bracing for a double-whammy as the coronavirus crisis intensifies. Dozens of nonprofit group homes are preparing emergency quarantine scenarios — if necessary — as they struggle to maintain residential services for the developmentally disabled, the mentally ill, drug addicts and others. At the same time, hundreds of community-based agencies could soon find themselves hemorrhaging cash — some more than $1 million per month — if the pandemic forces a broad-based shutdown of daily programs.
Source: CT Mirror
https://ctmirror.org/2020/03/20/providers-warn-coronavirus-is-straining-connecticuts-safety-net/
