About

Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS)
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.

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.

Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
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, multi-component, theoretically-derived and empirically-supported adolescent drug abuse treatments. A multidimensional perspective suggests that symptom reduction and enhancement of pro-social and appropriate developmental functions occur by facilitating adaptive developmental events and processes in several domains of functioning.

Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC)
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. 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.

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.

Torrington Foster Care and Adoption Support Group
A monthly, facilitated, support group this program offers post-license trainings, peer support, and social events for foster and adoptive families in the greater Torrington area. Free child care is provided offering children up to age 18 food, play supplies, and a forum for socialization.

Child Guidance Center
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.

Extended Day Treatment Program (Extend)
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.

Group Homes:
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.