Family Services
Empowering People for SuccessThis 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.
Gym Time At Edmond Town Hall
This is a time for parents and toddlers to be active together while growing up healthy. $50 per family, Wednesdays, from 9:30 am - 11:30 am.
Mommy & Me
A support group for first time mothers with children one year old and younger. Every Tuesday 10:30 am until noon.
The Me After We
(divorce support group for adults)
This coed group focuses on support, healing and moving forward after divorce. Tuesdays, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm.
NAMI
National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) America's largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons with serious mental illness. Meetings are the third Monday of every month, 9:30 am to Noon at 17 Church Hill.
Autism Group
For parents of children with special needs. Meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. at 17 Church Hill. Please call 364-1163 for more information.
Strengthening Families Program
The Strengthening Families Program is a program of the Newtown Prevention Council which takes place at NYFS' 17 Church Hill building. The program is funded through a Drug Free Communities grant of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). is open to families in Newtown with kids aged 10 to 14. It is a eight-week program which is offered periodically during the academic year. SFP is becoming a well recognized multi-family program which helps parents and youths to improve communication skills; gain insight and understanding about each other; to develop new methods of facing the teen years together; and to have fun together as a family. This is a federally funded program.