Community Based Services MDFT Foster Care Homecare Program Outpatient Group homes
Community Based Services
Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS)
Service description: IICAPS is a home-based service designed by the Yale University Child Study Center to service the needs of children who have psychiatric disorders and whose families need assistance maintaining the child at home safely. IICAPS creates a partnership between the child, the family, the school and treatment team through multiple home visits each week.
For more information on IICAPS, please email us at dennis.bieber@fcaweb.org.
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Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
Service description:Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) is a family-based treatment developed for adolescents with drug and behavior problems and for substance abuse prevention with early adolescents. The MDFT intervention has evolved over the last 17 years within a federally funded research program designed to develop and evaluate family-based drug abuse treatment for adolescents. This approach has been recognized as one of a new generation of comprehensive, multicomponent, theoretically-derived and empirically-supported adolescent drug abuse treatments. A multidimensional perspective suggests that symptom reduction and enhancement of prosocial and appropriate developmental functions occur by facilitating adaptive developmental events and processes in several domains of functioning.
For more information on Multidimensional Family Therapy, please email us at nancy.magnetti@fcaweb.org.
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Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC))
Service Description: Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC)
Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC)
For: Children between the ages of 6 and 17 years old needing foster care placement that will offer stability and security because their biological families are unable to fully provide for them. Family and Children's Aid licenses homes for Foster/Adoptive Care and Respite Care.
Service Description: TFC is a high quality level of care that is provided to children who have experienced trauma and are in need of a home. FCA places these children within a safe, supportive and nurturing family environment that offers a child the greatest chance of success. Children in TFC receive daily care, guidance and modeling from trained foster parents. FCA Foster Care families receive comprehensive training and 24/7 support to help manage a child successfully. We utilize a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment that values the child's unique potential, emphasizing innovative programming, teamwork and clinical excellence. A therapeutic foster parent is part of the child's team of professionals who are working together to help a child succeed.
For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at mindy.solomon@fcaweb.org.
Family Centers Visitation Program:
Provide supervised family visitations for children who are not living with their biological parents, allowing for the familial bond to remain intact after a child has been removed from their home.
The program services children and youth ages 4 to 17 currently under in the custody of the Department of Children and Families and residing in a foster or relative caretaker. Referrals are accepted from authorized DCF staff only. This is a fee-for-service program.
For more information on Family Centers Visitation Program, please email us at mindy.solomon@fcaweb.org.
Torrington Foster Care and Adoption Support Group;
This program provides a facilitated support group and training opportunities for foster and adoptive families in the greater Torrington area by providing guidance, support, information, and education. Post-license trainings, peer support, and social events are offered. Free child care is provided offering children up to age 18 food, play supplies, and a forum for socialization. This group meets one time per month.
For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at mindy.solomon@fcaweb.org.
Home Care Program
Service Description:FCA’s Home Care Program has helped seniors remain in their homes. Working with other agencies and organizations such as: Visiting Nurses Associations, hospitals, Senior Centers and Assisted Living Facilities. Home Care workers provide transportation for shopping and medical appointments, light meal preparation, and companionship and chore services.
For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at kristal.mitchell@fcaweb.org
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OUTPATIENT
Child Guidance Center
Service Description: Family & Children’s Aid Child Guidance Center has been providing mental health services to children and families throughout western and central Connecticut. The Center’s staff of Child Psychiatrists and masters-level, licensed therapists offer counseling services in adaptable therapeutic methods and in three languages English, Spanish, and Portuguese to best accommodate our clientele. For more
information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: valerie.ventrua-saadi@fcaweb.org
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Extended Day Treatment Program (Extend)
Service Description: Extend is a therapeutic after school program for at-risk children with emotional and behavioral
difficulties. Extend focuses on teaching children skills to strengthen self-esteem, manage ADHD, and
improve relationships through group, individual and family therapy. Extend encourages active participation
of parents. For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: janet.murphy@fcaweb.org
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Family Centers
Service Description:
Family Centers Provide supervised family visitations for children who are not living with their biological parents,
allowing for the familial bond to remain intact after a child has been removed from their home. For more
information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: mindy.solomon@fcaweb.org
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Mentoring Program
Service Description:This program aims to provide an important relationship for youth ages 14 to 21 who are placed outside of
their homes. Mentors are involved in the youth's life as a guide, role model and resource. The program aims
at maintaining these relationships on a long-term basis with a one-year minimum commitment. For more
information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: lynn.michaelson@fcaweb.org
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Respite Care
Service Description: Respite provides temporary care, for children in foster homes, reducing stress and preventing family
disruption for the child. Respite provides socialization opportunities and age appropriate activities for
children. For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: mindy.solomon@fcaweb.org
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Playmakers:
Family and Children’s Aid staff have been trained, as Life is Good Playmakers ™. Embracing the Playmaker
philosophy across all treatment methods offered at FCA we have harnessed the intuitive power of playfulness
in children to help them heal from psychiatric trauma. Using structured playgroups, Playmakers ™ focuses on
rebuilding a sense of safety, community connection, imagination and wonder in children. For more
information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: nick.hoffman@fcaweb.org
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GROUP HOMES
Harmony House
Service Description: Harmony House provides temporary housing for up to 16 homeless moms and children. Housing is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. Residents stay for an average of 90 days. Harmony House empowers women by
providing them with the skills and resources needed to maintain a more stable life for their families.
Staff work with the moms to help them gain employment, further their education and develop the necessary
skills to live independently. For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at:
jennifer.stevens@fcaweb.org
Group Homes:
Safe Homes
Service Description:Located in Danbury and Shelton, our two Safe Homes provide 24 hour, 7 day per week residential care in a
home-like setting for children and sibling groups age 6-12 who are removed from home due to abuse, neglect
or family conflict. Operating under a trauma focused therapeutic model, the Clinicians and Staff work with
the children to prepare them for family reunification or foster placement. For more information on
Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us at: jennifer.stevens@fcaweb.org
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Therapeutic Home for Boys ages 14 - 21
Service Description:This home is specifically designed for young men ages 14-21 who are being discharged from a higher level of
congregate care. The goal is to prevent long-term hospitalization. These young men have suffered from
multiple traumatic incidents, following a trauma-based treatment model, the staff works to help the
young men prepare to join a foster family. For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please email us
at: jennifer.stevens@fcaweb.org
Therapeutic Group Home for Girls
Service Description:The Therapeutic Group home for Girls (age 14 to 19) provides a safe, home-like community for young women.
These young women move into the home with complex psychiatric and behavioral disorders from long-term
hospitalization and residential treatment programs. The girls work together in overcoming past traumas,
developing life skills, becoming involved in the community, gaining independence and developing goals
towards future success outside of the program. For more information on Therapeutic Foster Care, please
email us at: jennifer.stevens@fcaweb.org
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