Child Guidance Center

Serves children from age 0 ––18 and families:

• Providing mental health services to children and families in Northwestern Connecticut.

• Offered weekdays, evenings, weekends

• Available in English, Spanish & Portuguese

• Available to all regardless of ability to pay

 

Extended Day Treatment Program

Serves 31 at-risk children between the ages of 4 and 17.

• Provides

  • Child-centered mental health services

  • Psychiatric evaluations

  • Field trips

  • Life skills workshop

  • Aftercare

  • Recreational activities

 

EMPS – Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services

Provides rapid phone and mobile response to psychiatric emergencies for children from birth to eighteen. FCA Clinicians are available for immediate phone consultations and trips to the homes of children in distress 24 hours a day seven days per week

 

Buddy Bus Program

Supervised transportation and visitation which allows children to visit their incarcerated mothers in Niantic.

 

Family Centers

Support services to biological, foster and adoptive families. Supervised visits between foster children and biological parents.

 

Mentoring Program

Matching DCF--involved children with positive role involved children with positive role models offering support, guidance and a positive influence.

 

Respite Program

Provides relief to caregivers of DCF--involved children with emotional and behavioral difficulties by with emotional and behavioral difficulties by providing supervised recreational activities outside of the home.

 

Court Supported Services Division (CSSD)

Juvenile Outpatient Mental Health & Substance Abuse Treatment Services

• Assesses & treats high-risk juveniles, referred by the court, and their families

• Psychiatric & pharmacological treatment

• Substance abuse evaluation & treatment