Supportive Housing for Families®

Our popular Supportive Housing for Families® program provides families served by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families throughout the state with support services and access to safe, quality, affordable and permanent housing.

Our mission is to help DCF Families thrive by finding homes in safe, nurturing neighborhoods, achieving economic independence, developing healthy relationships, and providing their children with a stable and caring home environment.

Supportive Housing for Families® is located throughout the state, with offices in New Haven, Groton, Middletown, Hartford, Waterbury, Torrington, Danbury and Bridgeport. The program helps families become reunited with children who have been placed in foster care, or prevents the placing children in foster care from happening by providing adequate housing.

Services provided include:

  • Assisting clients in securing housing subsidy and/or rental housing
  • Providing transportation
  • Providing clients with referrals, advocacy, crisis intervention and counseling services, as needed.
  • Coordinating substance abuse treatment, such as Relapse Prevention, Children’s Services, Educational Support and Parenting Training

Please view our new Supportive Housing for Families® video at the right to learn how families throughout Connecticut are being impacted by this wonderful program.

The Connection, Inc. Supportive Housing For Families® program contracts with statewide partner agencies:

The Connection is proud to be a member of the Child Welfare League of America and of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare.

The University of Connecticut's Department of Human Development & Family Studies has researched the Supportive Housing for Families® Program and has a published article on the benefits of the program.

Farrell, A. F., Britner, P. A., Guzzardo, M., & Goodrich, S. (2010).  Supportive housing for families in child welfare: Client characteristics and their outcomes at discharge.  Children and Youth Services Review, 32(2), 145-154.

The Supportive Housing for Families® program was also highlighted in the Children's Voice National Newswire.

For more information on Supportive Housing for Families®, please contact Betsy Cronin, Program Director, at 203-789-4427 or via email at bcronin@theconnectioninc.org.



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