https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/title_49.htm

Under this law, administrators in each Connecticut district court are required to establish foreclosure mediation programs by July 1, 2008. Actions to foreclose mortgages on residential properties may be sent to mediation at the request of the borrower, who must be notified by the lender of the option to mediate. Mediations will be conducted by trained court staff members. Mediators will be required to report to the court on which issues were or were not settled at the close of mediation.

The program was originally designed to end in 2009, but it was extended to 2012, and then again to 2014. The latest amendment, in 2011, also added a provision that court proceedings are required to be suspended for up to eight months while cases are in the program.