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Governor Ned Lamont wants to spend $12 million from Connecticut’s share of the American Rescue Plan money to provide a universal home visiting program for families with newborns.
Damaris Retamar, a Bridgeport resident, said home visits from a social worker would have made a huge difference when she had her first child at 17.
“I had no clue what I was doing,” she said.
An emotional Retamar, who now has three children, said that’s why she supports Lamont’s proposal for universal home visits by nurses and social workers.
“I know a lot of people who have struggled with keeping their kids because they don’t have the support, financially, mentally, physically. They are there by themselves. They don’t know who to turn to. Just like I did it,” Retamar said.
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