• About DCF
  • Important Information for Parents and Families
  • Diversity
  • Ombudsperson’s Office - Family Concerns / Complaints
  • Strategic Plan
  • USD #2
  • Youth Suicide
• DCF Reports
  • Congregate Care
  • Consolidation of CCP and Riverview
  • Continuum of Care
  • Court Monitor's Exit Plan Reports
  • Early Childhood
  • Education
  • Foster Care
  • Health
  • Legislation
  • Mental Health Block Grant Application
  • Positive Outcomes for Children
  • Strategic Plan 2012-2015
  • Town Pages
• Latest DCF Reports
• Recent DCF Reports

• DCF 2012-2015 Strategic Plan Powerpoint presentation (November 2012)
• DCF Health Equity Report - Submitted by Janice Gruendel (October 2012)

RECENT DCF REPORTS:

• Congregate Care - Rightsizing and Redesign Children, Voluntary Placements and a Profile of Therapeutic Group Homes - Executive Summary (August 2011, Executive Summary, 10 pp)
• Congregate Care - Rightsizing and Redesign:  Young Children, Voluntary Placements and a Profile of Therapeutic Group Homes (August 2011, Full Report)

• Solnit Center Final Consolidation Report (May 2012) 
•  Consolidation of Riverview Hospital and the CT Children's Place (April - October 2011)
• The Future of Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth:  Ten Steps Forward (April 2011, Full Report)
• Interim Consolidation Report - A Near Final Report on the Consolidation of Riverview Hospital For Children and Youth with the Connecticut Children's Place (June 2011, Full Report)

• Guiding Change:  The First Year Report of the DCF Continuum of Care Partnership - Submitted by Janice Gruendel (October 2012)

Early Childhood

• Oh, Baby! Getting it Right from the Start (May 2012)

• Promoting Student Success: A Framework for the Improvement of Educational Services at the DCF Powerpoint presentation (November 2012)
• Procedural Safeguards in Special Education 7/1/11 (pdf 352 kb)

Foster Care

• Foster Care Tabloid (May 2012)
• Foster Care and Adoption Myths (May 2012)
• DCF Kinship Care Report (March 2012)
• We All Need Somebody:  Supporting Children, Families and the Workforce in Connecticut's Family Foster Care System - Executive Summary (September 2011, Executive Summary, 17 pp)
• We All Need Somebody:  Supporting Children, Families and the Workforce in Connecticut's Family Foster Care System (September 2011, Full Report)

• DCF Health Equity Report - Submitted by Janice Gruendel (October 2012)

About DCF

Diversity

• A Guide to Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
• Developing a Multiculturally Competent Service System for an Organization or Program (pdf 375 kb)
• Introduction to Multiculturalism (pdf 194 kb)
• "LGBTQI Youth in Foster Care Have Rights" Brochure

• "After a Loved One Dies - How Children Grieve" 
• "Behavioral Health Partnership First Annual Evaluation" Calendar Year 2006 
• "Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services" (EMPS) (Recommendations for Model Enhancement) 
• "Family Assessment Response" brochure
• "Family Assessment Response" brochure (Spanish version)
• "Family Assessment Response" brochure (Chinese)
• "Family Assessment Response" brochure (Haitian Creole)
• "Family Conferencing and You" brochure
• "Family Conferencing and You" brochure
• "Family Conferencing and You" brochure (French version)
• "Grandparent's" brochure
• "Grandparent's" brochure (Spanish version)
• "GrandParents" tabloid
• "Guidelines for Leaving Your Child Alone"
• "Parent's Right to Know" brochure (in various Languages)
• "Support and Behavioral Health Services" brochure
• "Working with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing"

• Ombudsperson's Brochure

• Strategic Plan (pdf 160 kb)

• Procedural Safeguards in Special Education 7/1/11 (pdf 352 kb)

• Youth Suicide Advisory Board Brochure (pdf 74 kb)
• Youth Suicide Advisory Board Brochure - Spanish Version (pdf 96 kb)
• Youth Suicide Advisory Board Information Packet (PDF 240 KB)
• Youth Suicide Advisory Board Information Packet - Spanish Version (pdf 263 kb)

DCF Reports

• 2010 Legislative Summary (pdf 388 kb)
• 2009 Legislative Summary (pdf 195 kb)
• 2008 Legislative Summary (pdf 259 kb)
• 2007 Legislative Summary (pdf 115 kb)
• 2006 Legislative Summary (pdf 141 kb)

• Mental Health Block Grant Application Part C - Draft SFY 2008 (pdf 822 kb)

• Juan F. Exit Plan Quarterly Reports And Specifications
• POC Overview Plan (pdf 136 kb)

• Town Pages