Family Services
Empowering People for Success
This program provides intensive case management to recipients of Temporary Family Assistance, helping them remove barriers to sustained employment and achieve self-sufficiency. Only available through DSS/DOL referral. Contact: Lorenzo, 203-270-4335.
Parent Education Program
The Superior Court of the State of Connecticut requires parents with minor children to attend parenting education programs when these parents have domestic relations court orders, especially decrees of dissolution of marriage or of legal separation. The programs are designed to educate parents about how to help children handle problems and changes in their family such as divorce or living apart. The law requires that the program include information about the development stages of children, helping children adjust to parent separation, how to provide cooperative parenting, parental dispute resolution and conflict management, guidelines for visitation and stress reduction for children.
Circle of Parents
Parent mutual self-help support program based on a simple, and time-tested model: through peer to peer leadership and support at meetings, people in a parenting capacity over time gain self-esteem, overcome isolation and improve their parenting skills by exchanging support and positive parenting suggestions.
Newtown PAC (Parents Advocating for their Children)
This group is for parents of children with learning disabilities. The focus will be on assisting parents in finding the resources that they need to help their children become successful.