Family Connections
26 Russell Street, New Britain, CT 06052
(860) 223-2778
Family Connections is an intensive outpatient program that supports children and their families in an effort to avoid hospitalizations, to make the transition from hospitalization, and to improve functioning at home, school and in the community. The program is designed to serve children aged 6 to 17 who lack impulse control, are assaultive or violent, truant or school avoidant, depressed or suicidal, psychotic or thought disordered, or who are victims of trauma, abuse or neglect and its consequences. Services are provided in two tracks to ensure that they are developmentally appropriate.

The program is an intensive, structured after-school program that provides comprehensive psychiatric and psychosocial assessment, group, family and individual therapy, in-home family therapy as indicated, medication management, behavior modification and life skills training and therapeutic recreation. There is year round programming, case management and comprehensive discharge planning and referral.

Program hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, with services provided between 2:30 and 5:30 pm.

Community Alternative Program (CAP)
26 Russell Street, New Britain, CT 06052
(860) 223-4896
The CAP Extended Day Treatment Program provides comprehensive clinical services in an intensive five day a week after school program. These services are designed for at-risk children/youth in transition from residential placements or hospitalization, or those at risk of hospitalization due to serious behavioral problems, depression, psychosis, or serious traumatization. Services involve the child and family/caregiver and are provided in two tracks—one for children age 6 to 11, and one for youth age 12 to 16—to ensure developmentally targeted and appropriate interventions.

Services are provided by a multidisciplinary team of a Child Psychiatrist, Social Workers, Licensed Family Therapists, Master’s Prepared Clinical Case Managers and Mental Health Workers and include individual and group therapies, family therapy, in-home family therapy as indicated, medication management, psychiatric and psychosocial assessments, crisis services, case management and outreach. Program hours are from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Services are provided from 2:30 to 5:30 pm during the school year and from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm in the summer.

Waterbury Opportunity for Rehabilitation and Treatment at Home (WORTH)
965 South Main Street, Waterbury, CT 06706
(203) 596-9724
WORTH is an after school Extended Day Treatment program providing comprehensive clinical services five days a week to children, adolescents and their families in Greater Waterbury. WORTH serves children in transition back to the community from a hospitalization or residential placement; or those who are at risk of such placement due to the inability of the caregiver to manage the behavior of the child in the home.

Services are designed for children or adolescents with serious and longstanding behavioral and/or emotional difficulties including aggression, suicidality and depression, thought disorders, severe histories of trauma and its consequences, and school failures or truancy. Children in the program are often in a foster care placement or in transition to permanent placement.

WORTH offers group, family and individual therapies, case management, life skill and therapeutic recreation, behavior modification programming, psychiatric assessment, medication management and discharge planning. Family Therapy is offered; meals are provided, and coordination with The Department of Children and Families, as well as other community providers and the school, are an integral part of treatment.

Program hours are Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, with services from 2:30 to 5:30 pm. Summer hours are from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.

Waterbury Intensive Outpatient Program (WIOP)
965 South Main Street, Waterbury, CT 06706
(203) 596-9724

WIOP is an intensive outpatient program that supports children and their families in an effort to avoid hospitalizations, to make the transition from hospitalization, and to improve their functioning at home, school and in the community. The program is designed to serve children aged 6 to 17 who lack impulse control, are assaultive or violent, truant or school avoidant, depressed or suicidal, psychotic or thought disordered, or who are victims of trauma, abuse or neglect and its consequences. Services are provided in two tracks to ensure that they are developmentally appropriate.

program is an intensive, structured after-school program that provides comprehensive psychiatric and psychosocial assessment, group, family and individual therapy, in-home family therapy as indicated, medication management, behavior modification and life skills training and therapeutic recreation. There is year round programming, case management and comprehensive discharge planning and referral.

Program hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, with services provided between 2:30 and 5:30 pm.

Pando Home
18 Hemlock Road, Torrington, CT 06790
(860) 482-3536
Pando Home is a group home for five adolescent males with significant trauma histories and psychiatric issues. Residents have been in residential or subacute units for years, not necessarily because they needed that level of care, but because no other option was available. Pando Home’s mission is to preserve, strengthen, and enrich the lives of adolescent male trauma survivors through caring relationships and opportunities to grow mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually. The program uses therapeutic recreation to help residents get well, live swell, and stay well.

Multidisciplinary Investigation Team (MIT)
26 Russell Street, New Britain, CT 06052
(860) 223-2778
MIT is a team of collaborating agencies across the state that works with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to assess high risk children placed out of state and works to bring them back to Connecticut. The Central Connecticut MIT has been in existence for over a decade and reviews approximately 100 cases of criminal level child physical and sexual abuse annually. The team meets weekly in New Britain and Bristol and works to provide services to victims and their families, as well as provides a forum for DCF, law enforcement, prosecutors, and other community providers to follow a case until it is resolved.