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Our mission is building safe, healthy, caring communities and inspiring people to reach their full potential as productive and valued citizens.

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Family & Child Services

The Connection offers nationally recognized child welfare-focused programs that help families provide stable, loving homes for all children. We can help you reunite and stabilize your family after difficult life challenges such as trauma, substance use, struggles with behavioral health or homelessness.

Women's Reach Program

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Supportive Housing for Families

The Women's Community Transition Support Program

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Young Adult Services

Young adults ages 18-24 need specialized care when they find themselves homeless or in unstable housing situations. At The Connection, our homeless young adult services focus on connecting people to the community resources they need, expanding and nurturing their natural supports, and developing independent living skills. Young adults can access services by calling 211.

Referral Needed

Former Foster Care Youth Services

Meriden Middlesex Wallingford Young Adult Crisis

Rapid Rehousing Emerging Adults

Start Program for Young Adults Emergency Housing

Start Program for Young Adults Two Years Independence

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Adult Services

Adult services at The Connection offer a continuum of services, that range from outpatient care to residential settings. Within this area of the agency, you will find programs for Addiction Services, Behavioral Healthcare, and Community Justice. All programs follow person centered and trauma-informed models of care.

Addiction Services

Peer Services / Outreach

Open Access: Residential

Open Access: Outpatient

Behavioral Health

Community Justice

Referral Needed

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Housing Services

Having a safe home is one of the most important parts of successful recovery. The Connection is a housing first provider, which means we believe that housing must be prioritized for recovery to begin. We have a range of opportunities to assist with housing that include homeless outreach and engagement, emergency shelter, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing.

Outreach and Engagement

Referral Needed

Emergency Shelter

Permanent Supportive Housing

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Transitional Housing

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Consultation

As a nonprofit, The Connection has a unique understanding of the challenges faced by nonprofits and seeks to use that expertise to improve the social determinants of health by helping people, communities and organizations solve problems, adapt to change, and evolve. Advancing the systems that support communities promotes the health and wellbeing of the people who live there.

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The Institute for Innovative Practice

The Connection’s Institute for Innovative Practice provides professional development and essential skills training to staff and emerging leaders. Customized organizational training provides innovative solutions to address today’s complex workforce development needs. All of our trainings are firmly rooted in culturally competent, gender responsive and trauma-informed care, to ensure safety and empowerment.

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Instructor Led Training

Custom Training Solutions

Consultation and Coaching

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You can make The Connection by financially supporting the quality care for those who are homeless, face mental health and substance use challenges, or are returning to the community after incarceration.

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The Kätchen Coley Society

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May 2025

CT Buzz: The Connection – Understanding and Supporting the Homeless Community in Greater New Haven

May 15, 2025 news

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Give the Gift of Safety This Season
Target and Community Partners Brighten the Holidays for The Connection’s Programs
PRIME FINDS Home for the Holidays: A Beloved Litchfield Tradition Celebrates 10 Years
Fighting Food Insecurity in Connecticut
CT Buzz: “Prime Finds” Holiday Pop-Up Shop Benefits Prime Time House, a Nonprofit Serving Individuals Experiencing Mental Illness

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Main Office 100 Roscommon Drive, Suite 203
Middletown, CT 06457
(860) 343-5500
info@theconnectioninc.org

Toll-Free Helpline For easy access to our services, call our Toll-Free Helpline at (855) HELP 955 or (855) 435-7955 anytime during business hours. A trained staff member will assist you with your questions and will guide you to the appropriate Connection service.

Fraud Alert Line To report a concern or fraudulent activity, please call (855) 868-5656. All calls will be handled anonymously and in a timely manner.

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