Connecticut Invests in Community-Based Services: Performance Measures Show Leaps & Bounds in Child Placement Outcomes

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst

Child Services Management Innovation

Over the past five years, Connecticut has invested in dramatically expanding and altering the range of services for children and families. The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has developed intensive in-home clinical services and family support services not available prior to 2004. These include multi-systemic therapy; multidimensional family therapy, family support teams, functional family therapy, intensive community family support services, intensive in-home child and adolescent psychiatric services, as well as family-based recovery . . .