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- Adoption Resource Center of Connecticut, Inc - a not-for-profit, licensed agency providing services related to international and domestic adoption.
arcct.org
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwestern Connecticut - Provides role model/mentor/friend to children from single parent families or with special needs, to improve self-esteem, grades, and social skills and reduce incidence of negative behaviors.
electronicvalley.org/bbbs
- Connecticut Association for Human Services - Independent, nonprofit organization committed to decreasing poverty, neglect and inequality through public education, research, advocacy, and policy development.
www.cahs.org
- Connecticut Association of Foster and Adoptive Parents, Inc. - Nonprofit organization committed to strengthening foster and adoptive families through support, training and advocacy programs.
www.cafap.com
- Connecticut Center for Prevention of Child Abuse - Connecticut chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America is a statewide nonprofit program dedicated to the prevention of all forms of child abuse.
www.wheelerclinic.org/ccpca1.htm
- Connecticut Junior Republic - family services, residential treatment and community based educational programs for troubled youth (boys and girls).
www.ctjuniorrepublic.org
- Connecticut Kidslink - Connecticut Voices for Children, Inc. is a statewide, citizen-based membership organization founded to advocate the well-being of children and youth.
info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/CTvoices/kidslink/kidslink2/index.html
- Covenant to Care - Nonprofit, interfaith, multicultural organization which connects social workers and other child welfare professionals with faith communities throughout Connecticut in order to provide programs, goods and services to abused, neglected, and impoverished children.
covenanttocare.org
- Danbury Regional Commission on Child Care, Rights and Abuse, Inc. - Services include intervention, education and support. serves the towns of Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Sherman, Warren and Washington.
www.danbury.org/commission/index.htm
- Foodlink - Resource from the University of Connecticut for information on food safety, meal ideas, recipes, medical concerns, shopping tips and how to get food in Connecticut.
www.fnp.uconn.edu
- International Adoptive Families of Connecticut - Social support group for traditional and non-traditional families built through adoption.
www.geocities.com/iaf_ct
- Kids Counsel: Center for Children's Advocacy - Nonprofit organization which promotes and protects the legal rights and interests of poor children who are dependent upon the judicial, child welfare, health and mental health, education and juvenile justice systems for their care. Provides information on statewide resources.
www.kidscounsel.org
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut, Inc. - a non-profit, volunteer organization whose purpose is to grant the wish of any child between 2-1/2 and 18 years of age who suffers from a terminal or life-threatening illness.
www.wish-ct.org
- National Center of Missing and Exploited Children: Connecticut - Photos, data, description and information on young people who are missing from their homes.
www.missingkids.com/precreate/CT.html
- Save the Children - non-profit organization working to create positive, lasting change for disadvantaged children in the United States and 41 other nations.
www.savethechildren.org
- The Adoption Center at Family and Children's Agency, Inc. - Serving Connecticut families by finding permanent loving homes for US and internationally born children and providing supportive counseling for pregnant women.
www.fcadopt.org
- The Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family & Community Services, Inc. - Nonprofit organization provides information on community building, resources, youth development and the Rite of Passage Experience.
www.rope.org
- The Parent Planner - Monthly print guide of family activities including events calendar and index of play groups for families of Hartford, Tolland and Windham Counties.
www.parentplanner.net
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