Danbury Regional Child 268 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810 |
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All programs are free and child care is provided upon request. Collaboration with other local and state agencies is critical to the success of these programs.
Parent Aides provide support and training to parents who are experiencing stress in their family environment. A Parent Aide visits the parent regularly in the home and provides information and education regarding positive discipline, improving the parent-child relationship, organization and management of the household and engagement with other community resources.
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The Child Protection Team convenes on behalf of families at risk to coordinate services provided by professionals in the community and to ensure a unified effort and treatment approach without duplicating services. Teams include the family and community professionals working with them. These may be teachers, social workers, doctors, lawyers, mental health professionals, child protection workers, day care providers.
The Multi-disciplinary Investigation Teams (MIT) convene to improve investigation, intervention and prosecution and to reduce secondary trauma in cases of child sexual abuse and serious physical abuse and neglect. The MIT Coordinator enlists in this process forensically trained specialists representing DCF, Police, State’s Attorney, medical and mental health disciplines. This team response to abuse is designed to maximize the potential for successful prosecution and to minimize trauma of multiple interviews and ensure the safety of the child.
The MIT After-Care Clinic (ACC) provides short-term focused therapy to reduce trauma and stabilize families following a disclosure of child sexual abuse.
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The Volunteer Mentor Program reinforces skills families learned in more intensive programs. Professional staff recruit, train and supervise volunteers from the community who serve as role models for parents, providing support, advocacy and reinforcement of previous learning. Mentors are matched with parents at risk of abuse referred from various agency and community sources.
Grandparents As Parents Support Groups (GAPS) offer psycho-education and support for grandparents raising their grandchildren. Two weekly groups provide information, support, parenting skills, advocacy, and access to community resources. To enrich the psycho-educational component of the group, monthly speakers provide current information on issues relevant to the unique needs of these families.
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Parent Education and Support Groups
COPES (Communication of Parent Effectiveness Skills) provides parenting information, advocacy, and skill development for parents with infants and toddlers. In this parent/infant/toddler model, the parents’ group and children’s group meet concurrently in an environment conducive to improving communication skills between parent and child. Weekly groups are offered in English and in Spanish with door to door transportation provided.
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ParentNet offers an eight week curriculum providing parenting education, support and skill development. Evening and weekend classes with child care are conducted in English, Spanish and Portuguese for all parents of children from birth to18 years.