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ACRONYMS
ABC Unit - Acute Behavioral Crisis Unit – Mt. Sinai Hospital
ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
AFCAMP - African, Caribbean, and American Parents of Children with Disabilities
ASFA - Adoption and Safe Families Act
CPT - Child Placement Team
CREC - Capital Region Education Council
CSHCN - Children with Special Health Care Needs
CSSD - Court Support Services Division (Judicial Branch)
DART - Detection Assessment Research & Treatment at Yale New Haven Hospital
DAS - Department of Administrative Services
DSM - Diagnostic Service Manual
EIP - Early Intervention Program
EMPS - Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services
EPSDT - Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment
FAE/FAS - Fetal Alcohol Effect / Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
FASU - Foster and Adoptive Services Unit
FBR - Family Based Recovery
FBR -
Family-Based Recovery (Substance Abuse)
FIT - Family Intensive Therapy (waterford Country School Program)
GSD - Gender and Sexual Diversity (replacing LGBTQQIA)
LD - Learning Disabled
LEA - Local Education Agency
LGBTI - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
MIT - Multidisciplinary Investigation Team
OA - Office Assistant
OCA - Office of the Child Advocate
OFAS - Office of Foster and Adoption Services
OOS - Out of State
OPM - Office of Policy and Management
SACS - Sexual Assault Crisis Services
TANF - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
TDM - Team Decision Making
TF-CBT - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
TOPS - Time Out for Parents
TPC - Treatment Planning Conference
TPR - Termination of Parental Rights
WATCH - Wraparound Services – Community Child Guidance Clinic
YAB - Youth Advisory Board
YPP - Youth Parents Program
LEGAL
Emily J. - Lawsuit which challenged the conditions of confinement in the Juvenile Detention Centers operated by the defendant officials of the State of Connecticut and the state's treatment of those children confined in those facilities.
Juan F. - Consent decree which resulted from a federal class action suit filed against the Department of Children and Youth Services, now the Department of Children and Families (DCF). The suit broadly challenged the department’s management, policies, practices, operations, funding, and protocols concerning abused and neglected children in its custody and those who might come into its custody.
W.R. - Lawsuit that was filed by several plaintiffs (youths in DCF’s care and/or their parents) who claimed that the DCF discriminated against them on the basis of their mental illness and that they were harmed by DCF’s failure to put into place policies and procedures to make sure that mentally ill youth in the care of DCF had placements available to them which would help them to live in the community.
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